Ways and Means (3.3)
In theory, there's nothing wrong with fiction being aspirational: one of the things that fiction can provide is a space to imagine what doesn't exist in reality. But in the case of The West Wing, aspiration and inspiration went further into something like delusion, a desire to patch the problems of American political reality through the re-creation
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The hour of the Predator: 10 per cent West Wing, 20 per cent House of Cards, 70 per cent Veep
... See moreA brilliant libertarian-republican theoretician before achieving power and after leaving it, Jefferson is a classic case of corruption of principle from being in power. The first Jefferson Administration, however, was certainly one of the finest libertarian moments in the history of the United States. Expenses were lowered, the army and navy were