“This Is Not Your Father’s FBI The X-Files and the Delegitimation of the Nation-State”

Paul A. Cantor:
“With such a dark view of the U.S. government and its role in world politics, would such a series [the X-Files] ever be permitted on the air by network TV executives? If programmed, could it possibly last a whole season? Would not the American public at some point wake up to the subversive character of the series and hoot it off the air?”