2/2 For or the pay-productivity gap, click here. For productivity growth in the twentieth century, click here. List of names, click here.
2/9 For data on productivity by decade, click here. For FDR's 1944 State of the Union address, click here.
2/16 For the essay, "What are the Connections between Al Qaeda and Saddam Hussein?" click here. Rules for writing papers, click here. On students' writing mistakes, click here. For the first midterm exam, click here.
2/23 For the video of Eisenhower's Farewell Address, click here. For the 1964 "Daisy" commercial, click here. For a video on antiwar music, click here.
For interested students, here is a citation and link to the article I discussed, about insider stock trading and US interventions:
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").
3/21 For data on rates of profit, click here. For data on inflation, click here.
3/23 For fictionalization of NYC fiscal crisis, click here.
3/28 For a video on Anne Applebaum, click here.
3/30 For a graph of global GDP growth, click here. For the BBC documentary, "Decadance and Downfall," click here (49:40).
4/4 For BBC interview with Paul Weyrich, click here (48:00).
4/6 For a CIA video on identity politics, click here. For a video interview with Madeleine Albright, click here. For a humorous depiction of identity politics, click here. For a survey of political ideologies, click here (pp. 142-143).
4/11 A video of Nina Turner on the East Palestine train disaster, click here.
3/13 For a video of Carter's 1971 speech, click here. For a table of unemployment data, click here. For a table on inflation, click here.
4/18 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 the distribution of income from Thomas Piketty, click here.
4/20 Here are the instructions for your third midterm assignment, click here.
4/25 GWU documents on NATO/Russia, click here. For a specific document from this series, click here (note page 6, second paragraph).
4/27 For fallacy by appeal to authority, also known as fallacy ad vericundium, click here. For a video on Appeal to Authority regarding Donald Trump, click here. For courtroom standards of evidence, click here. For an exercise on valid and invalid appeals to authority, click here. For Smedley Butler's speech on U.S. intervention, click here. For controversies regarding the CIA, click here. For a newspaper article on Vladimir Putin, click here. For a New York Times article on Russia, click here. Link to video on propaganda pertaining to the First Gulf War, click here. For a link to a documentary on war propaganda by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, click here. For a fictionalized version of this episode, click here. Regarding exaggerated atrocity stories in wartime, click here.
5/2 For a video on the Nordstream pipeline, click here. For a video on populist response to overseas expansion, by Merle Haggard, click here. For video of Hillary Clinton, click here.