Bush Culture

Newsweek asked a few of its culture editors about art during the Bush era. Drum disagrees with their picks:

First off, there are the two TV critics, who practically bent over backward to avoid naming 24. I'm not saying that Battlestar Galactica and American Idol are bad choices, mind you, and I know that maybe it seems a little too obvious for guys who are paid to think nonobvious thoughts about this stuff, but come on: 24 is George Bush's America. Case closed.

Agreed. Nothing symbolizes Bush-Cheney era like Jack Bauer. Some of Drum's other suggestions are rather churlish (My Pet Goat as the fiction book that encapsulates this era?), but he's right about 24.