Another excellent installment of “Afterburner,” in which Bill Whittle wistfully recalls his visit to GM’s Futurama exhibit at the World’s Fair in New York City in 1964.

I feel something similar for Disney’s Tomorrowland (probably heir to Futurama), but the nostalgia is balanced out to some degree by a sense of parallel-world eeriness.

(I’m still looking for a great word for “nostalgia for a future envisioned in the past,” but I enjoyed this piece from the Atlantic’s Word Fugitives from a few years back– October 2001, as it turns out– curiously apropos.)

Some scenes from the excellent documentary “Mr. Conservative: Goldwater On Goldwater” (2006), directed by Barry Goldwater’s granddaughter CC Goldwater. Among other things, you will learn from the movie that Goldwater– the most perfectly conservative national political figure in memory– commands considerable respect (and more than a little fondness) from the decidedly unconservative Hillary Clinton, Ted Kennedy, Al Franken, Walter Cronkite and James Carville (each of whom appear in interviews for the movie.)

I. Goldwater opposes the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (with balanced commentary).

II. Goldwater at the 1964 Republican National Convention. I love George Will’s story about the reaction of a journalist to Goldwater’s famous line about “extremism in the defense of liberty.”

III. Goldwater vs. the Religious Right

IV. In Goldwater’s late career, his libertarian approach to social issues alienates many on the right.