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Utopia

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Podcasts

Nice Try!

A podcast about utterly predictable failures to remake society

Katherine Mangu-Ward | 11.1.2019 6:00 AM

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Cryptocurrencies

Bitcoin at 10

A new book aims to chronicle the digital currency's ideological origins.

Sonya Mann | 8.31.2019 6:00 AM

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Puerto Rico

Trouble in Paradise

Naomi Klein misses the meaning of "the miracles Puerto Ricans have been quietly pulling off while their government fails them."

Tate Watkins | 12.27.2018 6:00 AM

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Science Fiction

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

Victoria Varga | 1.26.2018 4:40 PM

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Arden

Delaware's Odd, Beautiful, Contentious, Private Utopia

Arden is a suburb, an artist's colony, and a radical political experiment.

Jesse Walker | 10.14.2017 6:00 AM

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Cory Doctorow

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

Katherine Mangu-Ward | 7.12.2017 6:00 AM

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Science Fiction

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.

Katherine Mangu-Ward and Todd Krainin | 5.25.2017 9:37 AM

Seasteading

Seasteading in Paradise

New promise for floating free communities in a Polynesian lagoon—but is the movement leaving libertarianism behind?

Brian Doherty | 5.21.2017 6:00 AM

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Communes

American Communism

A million hippie kids shaped modern America by trying to escape it.

Brian Doherty | 11.20.2016 6:00 AM

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Slavery

Anarchy, Swamp, and Utopia

Archeologists offer a new look at a secretive settlement of runaway slaves.

Jesse Walker | 9.8.2016 3:20 PM

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Architecture

Architecture, Fate, and Utopia

The right way for an experiment to fail

Jesse Walker | 4.7.2016 1:55 PM

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Utopia

High Crimes in Utopia

"One of the most bizarre homesteading misadventures ever"

Jesse Walker | 11.24.2015 3:57 PM

Anarchism

Maybe a Revolution Really Is a Dinner Party

A utopia in microcosm.

Jesse Walker | 9.12.2013 12:01 PM

Utopia

Rev. Sun Myung Moon's South American Utopia

A city without citizens

Jesse Walker | 2.22.2013 12:46 PM

Glenn Beck

Glenn Beck's Blueprint for a Self-Sufficient Theme Park in Texas

A TV host plans a utopia.

Jesse Walker | 1.14.2013 11:49 AM

Natural Disasters

Disaster Utopianism

Looking for paradise in catastrophic places

Jesse Walker | 4.20.2010 7:00 AM

Eugenics

In Darkest Indianapolis

A poor midwestern family is demonized by eugenicists and glorified by radicals.

Jesse Walker | 2.16.2009 2:00 PM

Ron Paul

Cities on a Hill

Jesse Walker | 5.14.2008 9:17 AM

Peter Thiel

Homesteading on the High Seas

Floating Burning Man, "jurisdictional arbitrage," and other adventures in anarchism

Katherine Mangu-Ward | 4.28.2008 4:58 PM

Proprietary Communities

Anarchy, State, and Amusement Park

Jesse Walker | 2.29.2008 11:03 AM

Movies

Desert Autonomous Zone

Survivalism meets the counterculture in a riveting new documentary.

Jesse Walker | 6.1.2007 6:32 AM

Music

Joy in Mudville

The Phish scene's swan song

Julian Sanchez | 8.23.2004 12:00 AM

Squatters

Semi-Permanent Autonomous Zone

Jesse Walker | 8.25.2003 7:39 AM

Communes

Free Market Communism

Julian Sanchez | 8.4.2003 6:05 AM

Counterculture

Take Me to Your Leader

A huge annual gathering of hippies freaks out the National Forest Service

Sam MacDonald | 2.1.2001 12:00 AM

Science Fiction

Anarchies, States, and Utopias

The science fiction of Ken MacLeod.

Jesse Walker | 11.1.2000 12:00 AM

History

Looking Back at Looking Backward

Edward Bellamy's famous utopian novel is set in today's America. Are we living his crazy dream?

Tom Peyser | 8.1.2000 12:00 AM

Burning Man

Burning Man Grows Up

Can the nation's premier underground event survive its success?

Brian Doherty | 2.1.2000 12:00 AM

Utopia

News from Nowhere

Jesse Walker | 12.1.1999 12:00 AM

Utopia

America as Utopia

A city upon a hill, a human-divine paradise, a light unto the nations-the American Religion

Robert Nisbet | 3.1.1987 12:00 PM

Utopia

Spare Us These High-Tech Utopias!

Jerome Tuccille | 12.1.1983 12:00 PM

Science Fiction

Science Fiction's New Utopias

Michael Grossberg | 12.1.1982 12:00 PM

Science Fiction

Ursula Le Guin: Novelist

Jeff Riggenbach | 12.1.1979 12:00 PM

Future

Doomsday Criers & Technocrats

Optimism gives the technocrats no reason to plan for anything, while pessimism gives them sufficient reason to plan for everything.

Jerome Tuccille | 11.1.1977 12:00 PM

Science Fiction

Triton

Jeff Riggenbach | 9.1.1977 12:00 PM

Libertarian History/Philosophy

Discord in Utopia

George Swan | 10.1.1976 12:00 PM

Philosophy

Anarchy, State and Utopia

Eric Mack | 11.1.1975 12:00 PM

Dystopia

After the Good War

Paul Varnell | 10.1.1974 12:00 PM

Science Fiction

Science Fiction: Behind the Curtain

John Pierce | 5.1.1974 12:00 PM

Utopia

The Problem of Utopianism

Tibor Machan | 7.1.1973 12:00 PM

Science Fiction

Science Fiction in Perspective

John Pierce | 3.1.1973 12:00 PM

Architecture

Arcology

The city in the image of man

Dick Pierce | 4.1.1972 12:00 PM

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