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The Real Cost of Working in the House of Mouse
How the world’s most famous theme park became a distinctly unmagical place to make a living. By Jaeah J. Lee.
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The Metaphysics to Our Present Global Anguish
The American millenarian ‘myth’, then and now, was and is rooted in the fervent belief in the Manifest Destiny of the United States, ‘the New Jerusalem’, to represent humanity’s best hope for a utopian future. By Alastair Crooke.
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What Can We Learn from Utopians of the Past?
Four nineteenth-century authors offered blueprints for a better world—but their progressive visions had a dark side. By Adam Gopnik.
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Surveillance Valley: The Secret Military History of the Internet
Yasha Levine
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H.G. Wells vs. George Orwell: Their Debate Whether Science Is Humanity’s Best Hope Continues Today
Though Wells and Orwell were debating in the era of Nazism, many of their arguments reverberate today in contemporary debates over science and policy. By Richard Gunderman.
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Delaware’s Odd, Beautiful, Contentious, Private Utopia
Arden is a suburb, an artist's colony, and a radical political experiment. By Jesse Walker.
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Utopia in the Time of Trump
The future is here, it just hasn’t finished melting yet. By Gerry Canavan.
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Like start-ups, most intentional communities fail – why?
Most utopian communities are, like most start-ups, short-lived. What makes the difference between failure and success? By Alexa Clay.
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Radical Efforts to End Homelessness: A Sober Utopia
In a remote corner of Colorado, a radical experiment is underway to rehabilitate the state’s most downtrodden residents. By Will McGrath.
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What Disney’s city of the future, built to look like the past, says about the present
Utopia on the I-4.
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What Happened to Turkey's Ancient Utopia?
Turkey’s Neolithic city of Çatalhöyük may have been an orderly society built on tolerance and equality — until it fell apart. By Jennifer Hattam.
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Twilight of the Idylls
Three new books on utopia in America. By Nikil Saval.
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Creepy Futures: Nicholas Carr’s History of the Future
The history of the future is replete with horrible utopias. By Geoff Nunberg.
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‘We are all Thomas More’s children’ – 500 years of Utopia
Utopia has inspired generations of thinkers and writers to imagine the good – and evil – humans might be capable of. China Miéville rereads a classic.
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The Return of the Utopians
What today’s movements for social and economic reform can learn from the intentional communities of the nineteenth century. By Akash Kapur.
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When the Messiah Came to America, She Was a Woman
On the rise and fall of American utopia. By Chris Jennings.
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