Sunday Night Politics

The television show “The West Wing” moved to Sunday nights this season as the show’s presidential election heated up. While such a move—from a more lucrative Wednesday night slot—unfortunately suggests that NBC is phasing out the show, it seems to be...

The Ethics of Cartography

Last Wednesday’s episode of “The West Wing” featured an amusing story line involving the ethics of cartography, or map-making. C.J. Cregg, the White House press secretary, met with a group known as the “Cartographers for Social Equality.”...