My article on the political philosophy of The Walking Dead is in the next issue of Reason. You can read it online here. Basically, I argue that the thesis of TWD is that political society is impossible; that the "bourgeois virtues" necessary to sustain it are unserious, and the ideal of the pursuit of happiness is doomed. Brush aside its Nietzschean nostalgia for the aristocratic virtues of antiquity, and the series represents the antisocial nihilism of a new Dark Ages.
Which isn't to say I dislike the show. Quite the contrary.
Oh, and in case you missed them, here are my articles on the political philosophy of Star Trek, and the political philosophy of Shakespeare, Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Anoiulh.
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