Nixon!!!

Checker's Speech Part I


Checker's Speech Part II


Kennedy/Nixon Debate


Nixon's "I'm not a crook" speech


Nixon/Front Interview


Bob Dole's Eulogy

Do not adjust your television...

Twilight Zone intro


This week we're moving into the 50s (and touching on the 60s). The Belton reading introduces the television and its impact on Hollywood.

Howdy Doody


Duck and Cover


Let's All Go the Lobby


Drive Inn Movie Ads

Alice, We're not in Wonderland Anymore.

Ok, my parady is a misquote.

This is cool.

Op-Ed Contributor
Algebra in Wonderland
By MELANIE BAYLEY
Published: March 7, 2010
The other-worldly events in “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” can be interpreted as satire on 19th-century advances in mathematics.

The Fountainhead

This week we're concluding our section of sci fi and moving on to the movie, The Fountainhead, written by Ayn Rand and directed by our old friend King Vidor. Here are some clips to help with class discussion.

Here is Mike Wallace being interviewed by Mike Wallace (1959).
Part I


Part II


Part III



Hayek's The Road the Serfdom was turned into a comic book. This a major work in libertarian, market-driven, economic theory. Here it has been converted into a short video (I can't vouch for the music).