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A podcast about utterly predictable failures to remake society
Utopia
Bitcoin at 10
A new book aims to chronicle the digital currency's ideological origins.
Trouble in Paradise
Naomi Klein misses the meaning of "the miracles Puerto Ricans have been quietly pulling off while their government fails them."
R.I.P. Ursula K. Le Guin, Author of One of the Greatest Novels About Freedom Ever Written
How libertarians learned to stop worrying and love The Dispossessed
Delaware's Odd, Beautiful, Contentious, Private Utopia
Arden is a suburb, an artist's colony, and a radical political experiment.
Cory Doctorow's 'Fully Automated Luxury Communist Civilization'
The author of Little Brother and Walkaway on dystopia, the end of scarcity, and what's going to get him arrested
Cory Doctorow on Cyber Warfare, Lawbreaking, and His New Novel 'Walkaway'
The novelist, activist, and BoingBoing founder on cyber warfare, Uber-style reputation economics, and what he's likely to get arrested for someday.
Seasteading in Paradise
New promise for floating free communities in a Polynesian lagoon—but is the movement leaving libertarianism behind?
Anarchy, Swamp, and Utopia
Archeologists offer a new look at a secretive settlement of runaway slaves.
Glenn Beck's Blueprint for a Self-Sufficient Theme Park in Texas
A TV host plans a utopia.
In Darkest Indianapolis
A poor midwestern family is demonized by eugenicists and glorified by radicals.
Homesteading on the High Seas
Floating Burning Man, "jurisdictional arbitrage," and other adventures in anarchism
Take Me to Your Leader
A huge annual gathering of hippies freaks out the National Forest Service
Looking Back at Looking Backward
Edward Bellamy's famous utopian novel is set in today's America. Are we living his crazy dream?
America as Utopia
A city upon a hill, a human-divine paradise, a light unto the nations-the American Religion
Doomsday Criers & Technocrats
Optimism gives the technocrats no reason to plan for anything, while pessimism gives them sufficient reason to plan for everything.
