Utopia at Troynovant:
hopes of utopia in power, or dystopia;
listed by Title
Utopia is a name coined by Sir Thomas More from the Greek words meaning no place. Utopia lies in, or comprises, a region that we seem to be able to imagine quite interestingly; and see almost clearly; and certainly work toward; and reasonably for such happiness enact laws leading toward its construction; and even for such an ideal and final end control misguided doubters and dissenters; and finally —
We know that utopia and dystopia have more than subjective differences. Whether a society is good or bad, healthy or poisoned, lies not in rulers' proclamations or their fellow-travelers' praise. Hypothetical criteria for the best of societies should be analyzed; real social and individual consequences must be understood. Claims for absolute and ideal societies, purified by decree and command, are in especial need of the brightest light of history. The Perfectibility of Man is a process of individuals, not a State. Odysseus knew the song the Sirens sing; and so do we.
| Advice to Sarah Palin From the Know-It-Alls A Satirical Journey |
Nicole O. Coulter | RW Franson |
| Algebra of John Maynard Keynes, The | WH Stoddard | |
| Anthem | Ayn Rand | RW Franson |
| Banners for Constitutionalists from The Sly Tyrant's Handbook |
RW Franson | |
| Basic Concepts of Government Rights, Federalism, and the Constitutional Republic |
Publius-Huldah | |
| Berlese Pyramid, The Oppression Points Downward |
RW Franson | |
| Big Public Is Watching You Transparency versus Security |
RW Franson | |
| Brick Moon, The | Edward Everett Hale | RW Franson |
| Bring Her Down How the American Media Tried to Destroy Sarah Palin |
Gina Dalfonzo | NO Coulter |
| Bukharin and the Bolshevik Revolution A Political Biography 1888-1938 |
Stephen F. Cohen | RW Franson |
| Campaign of the Century, The Upton Sinclair's Race for Governor of California and the Birth of Media Politics |
Greg Mitchell | RW Franson |
| Cell-Phone Spyware The View from 1969 | RW Franson | |
| Clouds of Dissolution The Insecurity of Interconnectivity, or Who Guards the Electronic Global Village? |
RW Franson | |
| Commissar Vanishes, The The Falsification of Photographs and Art in Stalin's Russia |
David King | RW Franson |
| Conflict of Visions, A Ideological Origins of Political Struggles |
Thomas Sowell | SE Jordan |
| Contra Gradualism Applying Principle to Issues |
W McElroy | |
| Darfsteller, The | Walter M. Miller, Jr. | RW Franson |
| Dodkin's Job | Jack Vance | RW Franson |
| Earl of Louisiana, The | A. J. Liebling | RW Franson |
| End of the Line, The | James H. Schmitz | WH Stoddard |
| Every Crowd Is Crazy Kipling's Political Theme in "As Easy as A.B.C." |
WH Stoddard | |
| Everything is Fake Now | D Greenfield | |
| Exquisite Rebel Voltairine de Cleyre |
S Presley | |
| Fear the Boom and Bust A Hayek vs. Keynes Rap Anthem |
Papola / Roberts | WH Stoddard |
| Finding Serenity Anti-Heroes, Lost Shepherds and Space Hookers in Joss Whedon's Firefly |
Jane Espenson | RW Franson |
| Fire from the Heartland The Awakening of the Conservative Woman |
Stephen K. Bannon | SE Jordan |
| Firefly dvd series [Review Essay] |
Joss Whedon | RW Franson, DH Franson |
| Five Thousand Year Leap, The The 28 Great Ideas That Changed the World |
W. Cleon Skousen | SE Jordan |
| Flower Power Save a Breath for Nature |
SE Jordan | |
| Fog | Willy Ley | RW Franson |
| For Us, the Living | Robert A. Heinlein | RW Franson |
| For Us, the Living | Robert A. Heinlein | WH Stoddard |
| Four-Day Planet | H. Beam Piper | RW Franson |
| Freddy the Politician | Walter R. Brooks | RW Franson |
| Fruit of Knowledge | Catherine L. Moore | RW Franson |
| Geared Way, Way Down A Parable of Efficiency |
WR Franson | |
| Good Night, and Good Luck | Clooney / Strathairn / McCarthy | CB Kurtz |
| Green Millennium, The | Fritz Leiber | RW Franson |
| GURPS Steampunk | William H. Stoddard | RW Franson |
| Hitler's Shattered Dream, 1932 | RW Franson | |
| Home and the World, The (Ghare-Baire) |
Satyajit Ray | WH Stoddard |
| How to Govern a Kingdom | Suzie Garfield | RW Franson |
| How to Recreate a Constitution From Amending Principles to Doing Without |
SE Jordan | |
| If We Only Had a Brain Neurofeedback for America |
SE Jordan | |
| Illusionists, The (Space Fear) | James H. Schmitz | RW Franson |
| Impending Crisis, The 1848 - 1861 |
David M. Potter | RW Franson |
| Inferno | Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle |
R Grube |
| Is It Time to Establish a British Libertarian Party? | W McElroy | |
| Ishmael Paradigm, The A Critique of Daniel Quinn's Ishmael |
G Stolyarov II | |
| Law and Institutions in the Shire | WH Stoddard | |
| Machiavelli's Liberal Republican Legacy | Paul A. Rahe (editor) | RW Franson |
| Macintosh 1984 [commercial] | Ridley Scott | RW Franson |
| Maxims for Despots from The Sly Tyrant's Handbook |
RW Franson | |
| Men Like Gods | H. G. Wells | RW Franson |
| Midsummer Century | James Blish | RW Franson |
| Mule, The | Isaac Asimov | RW Franson |
| Nazi-Communist Partnership Elective Affinities, Offensive Alliances |
RW Franson | |
| Negative Railway, A | F Bastiat | |
| Never Underestimate | Theodore Sturgeon | RW Franson |
| New Thought Police, The Inside the Left's Assault on Free Speech and Free Minds |
Tammy Bruce | RW Franson |
| Nietzsche's Task An Interpretation of Beyond Good and Evil |
Laurence Lampert | RW Franson |
| Null-A series | A. E. van Vogt | RW Franson |
| Objectivist Newsletter, The 1962-1965 |
Ayn Rand & Nathaniel Branden |
RW Franson |
| Objectivist, The 1966-1971 |
Ayn Rand & Nathaniel Branden |
RW Franson |
| 180 Changing the Heart of a Nation |
Ray Comfort | SE Jordan |
| Our Fair City | Robert A. Heinlein | RW Franson |
| Penrod: His Complete Story | Booth Tarkington | RW Franson |
| Perfect Servants | WH Stoddard | |
| Perjury The Hiss-Chambers Case |
Allen Weinstein | RW Franson |
| Picaro in Hitler's Europe, A | Walter Arndt | ZB Matkowska |
| Plants Clear the Air An Inconvenient Meeting on Climate Change |
SE Jordan | |
| Politics, Murder, and Love in Stalin's Kremlin The Story of Nikolai Bukharin and Anna Larina |
Paul R. Gregory | PT Smith |
| Progressives and Anarchists: Let's Dance ... Wait, What? |
SE Jordan | |
| Prometheus Bound, but good | CL Spark | |
| Psychohistorical Crisis | Donald Kingsbury | WH Stoddard |
| Psychology / Psychiatry and the Left | SE Jordan | |
| 1. Progressivism & Eugenics | ||
| 2. Drugs, Experts, & the Medical Model | ||
| 3. A Personal Perspective | ||
| Race and Culture A World View |
Thomas Sowell | RW Franson |
| Reagan, In His Own Hand | Ronald Reagan | RW Franson |
| Reagan's Revolution [the 1976 nomination campaign] |
Craig Shirley | RW Franson |
| Reichstag Fire, The Legend and Truth |
Fritz Tobias | RW Franson |
| Rendezvous with Destiny [Reagan and the 1980 Presidential campaigns] |
Craig Shirley | RW Franson |
| Revamping the Justice System Channeling Responsibility |
KW Siegemund | |
| Reveille for Radicals | Saul D. Alinsky | RW Franson |
| Robert Heinlein Interview, The and Other Heinleiniana |
J. Neil Schulman | RW Franson |
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Role of Business and the Virtuous Cycle of Progress |
G Stolyarov II | |
| Romance of American Communism, The | Vivian Gornick | RW Franson |
| Santaroga Barrier, The | Frank Herbert | RW Franson |
| Sarah From Alaska The Sudden Rise and Brutal Education of a New Conservative Superstar |
Scott Conroy & Shushannah Walshe |
CB Kurtz |
| Say's Law or the Law of Markets |
WH Stoddard | |
| Secret of the League, The | Ernest Bramah | RW Franson |
| Serenity | Joss Whedon | RW Franson, DH Franson |
| Serenity | Joss Whedon | WH Stoddard |
| Solar Lottery | Philip K. Dick | RW Franson |
| Soon (In 48 Years' Time) | Alexandra Kollontai | RW Franson |
| Strategies from the Past: Boycott Non-Political Persuasion in Society |
W McElroy | |
| Strategy to Win, A Cleveland: circa 1 September 1969 |
Bill Ayers | RW Franson |
| Streets of Fire | Walter Hill / Michael Paré | WH Stoddard |
| Third Man, The | Reed / Greene / Cotten / Welles / Valli | RW Franson |
| Transparent Society, The Will Technology Force Us to Choose Between Privacy and Freedom? |
David Brin | RW Franson |
| Trojan Horse Laugh | John D. MacDonald | RW Franson |
| Ukraine, The: A History | W.E.D. Allen | RW Franson |
| Venus Plus X | Theodore Sturgeon | RW Franson |
| War Against the Weak Eugenics and America's Campaign to Create a Master Race |
Edwin Black | SE Jordan |
| War Before Civilization | Lawrence H. Keeley | RW Franson |
| Weapon Shop series | A. E. van Vogt | RW Franson |
| We Still Hold These Truths Rediscovering Our Principles, Reclaiming Our Future |
Matthew Spalding | SE Jordan |
| Why I Am Not a Utilitarian Values and the Ethical Life |
WH Stoddard | |
| Your First Time [Barack Obama campaign ad, 2012] |
Lena Dunham | RW Franson |
[The Archbishop's palace in York.]
Lord Bardolph:
For in a theme so bloody-faced as this,
Conjecture, expectation, and surmise
Of aids uncertain should not be admitted.
...... who lined himself with hope,
Eating the air on promise of supply,
Flatt'ring himself with project of a power
Much smaller than the smallest of his thoughts;
And so, with great imagination
Proper to madmen, led his powers to death,
And winking leapt into destruction.William Shakespeare
2 Henry IV, 1.3.22-24, 28-33
American Civil War at Troynovant
1860-1865; freedom & slavery,
campaigns and battles
Coining at Troynovant
quantifying value into commodity;
true coin, false coin, enterprise & economics
Constitution at Troynovant
American founding documents,
Declaration of Independence
& U.S. Constitution
The origin and context of Thomas Jefferson's
"a wall of separation between church and state"
by James Hutson at the Library of Congress
Soviet movie poster:
Sergei Eisenstein's
Battleship Potemkin (1925)
Soviet postcard:
Vladimir Lenin as in 1920
(color as in postcard)
Russia at Troynovant
Russian Empire, Soviet Union (USSR), Ukraine
history, geography, literature
Communism at home (CPSU)
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