Even though it's frequently asserted that we are living in a golden age of scripted television, television as a medium is still not taken seriously as an artistic art form, nor has the stigma of television as "chewing gum for the mind" really disappe...

Ever since Kant and Hegel, the notion of autonomy – the idea that we are beholden to no law except one we impose upon ourselves – has been considered the truest philosophical expression of human freedom. But could our commitment to autonomy, as Theod...