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Late X. Early: Tom Swift, Ender's Game, Dune, Larry Niven. Later, Atlas Shrugged, The Dispossessed, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Hemingway, Harry Potter, Hunger Games. NOT Catcher in the Rye, it's navel-gazing cruft that Joyce did far better.

OG Star Wars trilogy, OG Star Trek movies and TNG/DS9 series, ET, Alien(s). The Big Lebowski, the Shawshank/Pulp/Gump Oscar race, Saving Private Ryan, The Matrix, Old School, Gladiator, Bladerunner, Braveheart. We lived through the 2nd golden age of historical epics and the first of big budget scifi, a well as some truly great soundtracks.

We largely grew up in the great television desert but X Files, Seinfeld, That 70s Show, Friends, and early ER stand out. Band of Brothers is the best thing ever put on a screen of any form imho.

Victor Davis Hanson, Second World Wars interview with Peter Robinson:

PR: Why is there a plural in the title?

VDH: ...One is that, from 1939, when Germany divided up Poland with the Soviet Union, until... April of '41 - there was a Polish war, there was a Norwegian war, there was a Danish war, a low country war, there was a French war the blitz, there was a Yugoslav war, there was a Greek war. And all of those together weren't called the second world war. They were seen as isolated border blitzkriegs... And then something weird happened. In 1941 Germany... invaded its de facto ally the Soviet Union... Japan bombed Pearl Harbor... suddenly these border wars where nobody really knew what they were became the Second World War.

Victor Davis Hanson, Second World Wars interview with Peter Robinson:

PR: Why is there a plural in the title?

VDH: ...One is that, from 1939, when Germany divided up Poland with the Soviet Union, until... April of '41 - there was a Polish war, there was a Norwegian war, there was a Danish war, a low country war, there was a French war the blitz, there was a Yugoslav war, there was a Greek war. And all of those together weren't called the second world war. They were seen as isolated border blitzkriegs... And then something weird happened. In 1941 Germany... invaded its de facto ally the Soviet Union... Japan bombed Pearl Harbor... suddenly these border wars where nobody really knew what they were became the Second World War.

How an economy based on deflationary currency works. Not just high level like why the Keynesian argument about death spiral is separate from productivity driven deflation, but nuts and bolts stuff. How would small businesses get finance without cheap debt? What would coax money out of savings? Assuming some fractional reserve how would banking crises be resolved?