By: Erik Davis

Paladin is an icon of neoliberal postwar American power.

By: Adam McGovern

An interstitial reality of anonymous, overgrown stretches of road.

By: Dan Reines

Children spoke like Lutheran elders, not least because they were voiced by middle-aged adults.

By: Rob Walker

Everybody knew an Eddie Haskell, and everybody knows one now.

By: Lynn Peril

Even watching as a preteen, I didn’t understand those twin beds.

By: Joshua Glenn

Is Taylor a Br’er Rabbit-like trickster? Is he wrong-footing us?

By: Mark Kingwell

“This endless TV road trip set the standard for crew-cut cool.”

By: Peter Doyle

It’s potentially subversive, but at base, all Dobie really wants is in.

By: Gary Panter

An oscilloscope sine wave display, atmospheric woodwind and harp flutter.

By: Jessamyn West

Push buttons existed to make everything easier, not to make the life of the already-privileged another 5% better.

By: Mimi Lipson

“But Granny, they ain’t varmints. They’s my critters!”

By: James Hannaham

NBC could not get a national sponsor for the show because Cole’s color “would not play in the South.”

By: Devin McKinney

This “zone” was not some inconceivable nexus light years away. It was your house.

By: Barbara Bogaev

The puns clued me in to the magic that things are not always as they seem.

By: Adrienne Crew

Why do people in Steve’s household keep disappearing?