Dead Tree Alert: Think You Know Jack?

I would have posted this earlier, but the dirty little secret is that even some of us who work at TIME have a hard time remembering it now comes out on Fridays. (Run to the newsstands, people! Run like the wind!) In the print issue, my Culture Complex column looks at the new season of 24, in the light of the charges--which I've disputed before--that Jack Bauer is a right-wing tool.

I managed to write it without spoiling any of the plot twists that Fox warned critics not to reveal on pains of being shocked with an unsheathed table lamp wire. Naturally, Fox has already blown one of those spoilers in its ubiquitous ads. ("For America to survive, Jack Bauer must die.") I hope the Fox publicity department submits to its torture bravely.