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John Galt is a character in Ayn Rand's novel Atlas Shrugged. Although he is not identified by name until the last third of the novel, he is the object of its often-repeated question "Who is John Galt?" and of the quest to discover the answer.

Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn was a Russian novelist, philosopher, historian, short story writer and political prisoner. Solzhenitsyn was an outspoken critic of the Soviet Union and Communism and helped to raise global awareness of its Gulag labor camp system.

Ayn Rand was a Russian-born American writer and philosopher. She is known for her fiction and for developing a philosophical system she named Objectivism.

John Galt is a character in Ayn Rand's novel Atlas Shrugged. Although he is not identified by name until the last third of the novel, he is the object of its often-repeated question "Who is John Galt?" and of the quest to discover the answer.

Gaius Julius Caesar, known by his nomen and cognomen Julius Caesar, was a populist Roman dictator, politician, and military general who played a critical role in the events that led to the demise of the Roman Republic and the rise of the Roman Empire. He was also a historian and wrote Latin prose.

Max Keiser is an American broadcaster and film maker.

Samizdat was a form of dissident activity across the socialist Eastern Bloc in which individuals reproduced censored and underground makeshift publications. Roentgenizdat were homemade phonograph records, copied from forbidden recordings that were smuggled into the country, and were sold and traded on the black market.

"Dumpster fire" is an informal term in the United States used to describe a catastrophically bad situation. It has appeared in metaphorical form as early as 2003.

George Orwell, born Eric Blair in India in 1903, was an English novelist, essayist, journalist, and critic. He is known for his visionary works such as Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-four, as well as his non-fiction classics Down and Out in Paris in London, The Road to Wigan Pier, and Homage to Catalonia.

John Maynard Keynes, was a British economist, whose ideas fundamentally changed the theory and practice of macroeconomics and the economic policies of governments in the post war period.

Sir Winston Churchill was a British politician, army officer, and writer. He was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945, when he helped lead Britain to victory in the Second World War.

Joseph Conrad was a Polish-British novelist and short story writer. He is regarded as one of the greatest writers in the English language.

Tim Pool is an American journalist, YouTuber, and political commentator. He first became known for live streaming the Occupy Wall Street protests in 2011.

Field Marshal Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, was an Anglo-Irish soldier and statesman who was one of the leading military and political figures of 19th-century Britain, serving twice as prime minister.

Glasnost was policy of the Soviet Union in the 1980s, promoting openness and transparency in government and scrutiny of leaders by the mass media.

Perestroika was a political movement for reformation within the Communist Party of the Soviet Union during the 1980s, and widely associated with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev and his glasnost policy reform.

The Nixon shock was a series of economic measures undertaken by President Richard Nixon in 1971, in response to increasing inflation, the most significant of which were wage and price freezes, and the unilateral cancellation of the direct international convertibility of the United States dollar to gold. Although Nixon's actions did not formally abolish the existing Bretton Woods system of international financial exchange, its suspension is one of the key components that rendered the Bretton Woods system inoperative. While Nixon publicly stated his intention to resume direct convertibility of the dollar, By 1973, the Bretton Woods system was replaced de facto by the current regime based on freely floating fiat currencies.

In the dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell, the Two Minutes Hate is the daily period during which members of the Outer and Inner Party of Oceania must watch a film depicting Emmanuel Goldstein, the principal enemy of the state, and his followers, the Brotherhood, and loudly voice their hatred for the enemy and then their love for Big Brother. The political purpose of the Two Minutes Hate is to allow the citizens of Oceania to vent their existential anguish and personal hatred toward politically expedient enemies.

Oceania, Eurasia and Eastasia are the three fictional superstates in George Orwell's dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four. All that Oceania's citizens know about the world is whatever the Party wants them to know.

Pax Americana

Orwell/Huxley/Kafka

Emmanuel Goldstein is a fictional character in George Orwell's 1949 dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four. He is the principal enemy of the state according to the Party of the totalitarian Oceania.

The Invisible Hand

The Tolpuddle Martyrs were six agricultural labourers from the village of Tolpuddle in Dorset, England, who, in 1834, were convicted of swearing a secret oath as members of the Friendly Society of Agricultural Labourers.

Yes Minister was a British sitcom and follows the exploits during the ministerial career of Jim Hacker. He is the Minister for Administrative Affairs (a fictitious ministry of the British government), and in Yes, Prime Minister he becomes the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

John Stuart Mill, was a British philosopher, political economist, and civil servant. One of the most influential thinkers in the history of classical liberalism, he contributed widely to social theory, political theory, and political economy.

John Locke was an English philosopher, widely regarded as one of the most influential of Enlightenment thinkers and commonly known as the "Father of Liberalism".

Aldous Huxley was an English writer and philosopher. He wrote nearly fifty books, as well as wide-ranging essays, narratives, and poems. Born into the prominent Huxley family, he graduated from Balliol College, Oxford with an undergraduate degree in English literature.

Guy Fawkes, also known as Guido Fawkes while fighting for the Spanish, was a member of a group of provincial English Catholics who was involved in the failed Gunpowder Plot of 1605.

Oliver Cromwell Rocks

Machiavelli

Adam Smith was a Scottish economist, philosopher and author as well as a moral philosopher, a pioneer of political economy and a key figure during the Scottish Enlightenment, also known as ''The Father of Economics'' or ''The Father of Capitalism''.

Franz Kafka Rocks

Lawrence of Arabia Rocks

Milton Friedman was an American economist, and he rules.