2/3 For the pay-productivity gap, click here. For productivity growth in the twentieth century, click here. List of names, click here.
2/10 For data on productivity by decade, click here. For FDR's 1944 State of the Union addres, click here.
2/17 For data on rates of profit, click here.
2/24 For BBC interview with Paul Weyrich, click here. For Country Joe MacDonald, click here. For Merle Haggard, "Okie from Muskogee, click here.
3/2 For the video of Eisenhower's Farewell Address, click here. For the 1964 "Daisy" commercial, click here.
U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, “Justification for U.S. Military Intervention in Cuba,” March 13, 1962, recently declassified. For full text, click here. Scene from Godfather, Part II, click here.
Arindrajit Dube, Ethan Kaplan, and Suresh Naidu, "Coups, Corporations, and Classified Information," Quarterly Journal of Economics 126, no. 3, 2011. For full text, click here (click on "PDF").
3/17 For link on military spending, click here. For a map of Afghanistan, click here.
3/31 For a graph of global GDP growth, click here. For the BBC documentary, "Decadance and Downfall," click here (49:40). For video of Hillary Clinton on Muammar Gaddafi's death, click here. For fictionalization of NYC fiscal crisis, click here.
4/7 For a table of unemployment data, click here. For a table on inflation, click here.
4/14 For the Carter-Reagan debate 1980, click here (view 1.30-1:32). For a 1984 campaign commercial, "It's Morning Again in America," click here. For a table on income compression from the Rand Corporation, click here (see p. 11, Table 2b). For a table on the distribution of income from Thomas Piketty, click here. For a CIA video on identity politics, click here. For a humurous depiction of identity politics, click here. For a survey of political ideologies, click here (pp. 142-143). A video of Nina Turner on the East Palestine train disaster, click here. For a clip from Dr. Strangelove, click here (begin at 1.10).