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  On Don Draper's Pledge to Be a Better Man

  Posted Monday, August 17, 2009 5:51 PM | By Dayo Olopade

  As Frank Rich pointed out in the Sunday New York Times, this season of Mad Men has a new tagline—no longer "Where the truth lies," but rather, "The World's Gone Mad." Things seem relatively normal in the early 1963 moment with which the season begins—though by year's end, we know that history alone, not to speak of the tangled lives of Mad Men's ensemble cast, will make a sense of cultural and political vertigo inevitable ... (Read the rest of this post, or the whole conversation, in DoubleX.)

  Filed under: television, marriage and commitment, mad men, don draper, cheating

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