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Mad Men has surged back into the public consciousness lately, with the New York Times naming it the third-best television series of the twenty-first century. (A few folks at The Dispatch would argue it deserves the top spot, but that’s a debate for another time.) In today’s American Artifacts, Christian Gonzalez, a research fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, examines the show and explains why it offers rich lessons about morality—even when the characters aren’t exactly what we’d label as virtuous.
