The Novel Solutions of Utopian Fiction The Novel Solutions of Utopian Fiction
Climate catastrophe has transformed a minor literary genre into an important tool of human thought.
Jul 16, 2021 / Feature / Kim Stanley Robinson
Imagining a Better Way to Grow Old in America Imagining a Better Way to Grow Old in America
If Americans approached aging and disability not as an individual crisis but as a collective responsibility, what kind of safety net could we build?
Jul 16, 2021 / Feature / Bryce Covert
In My Own Private Utopia, There Is No Rain—or Republicans In My Own Private Utopia, There Is No Rain—or Republicans
In The Sims, one of my favorite video games, my goal is for everyone to be as happy as possible.
Jul 16, 2021 / Feature / Elie Mystal
In the Image of Jonestown In the Image of Jonestown
In our flattened historical imagination, pictures of atrocity and those of progress can coincide in unsettling ways.
Jul 15, 2021 / Feature / Jay Caspian Kang
What Will Be the Language of Our Digital Future? What Will Be the Language of Our Digital Future?
Without online diversity, only a handful of people will dictate the fate of the world.
Jul 15, 2021 / Feature / Nanjala Nyabola
In Utopia, I Never Have to Write About Immigration Again In Utopia, I Never Have to Write About Immigration Again
In a world without borders, migrants can be people—and migrant artists can, perhaps, be free.
Jul 15, 2021 / Feature / Karla Cornejo Villavicencio
Utopia Is Possible—Yes, Even Now, Especially Now—but We Have to Demand It Utopia Is Possible—Yes, Even Now, Especially Now—but We Have to Demand It
Radical faith in grand visions is supercharged by the promise that fundamental change is possible.
Jul 15, 2021 / Feature / John Nichols
Shulamith Firestone Wanted to Abolish Nature—We Should, Too Shulamith Firestone Wanted to Abolish Nature—We Should, Too
Revisiting her brilliant, irritable, deeply flawed manifesto in the pandemic.
Jul 14, 2021 / Feature / Sophie Lewis
Why Does Utopian Architecture Suck? Why Does Utopian Architecture Suck?
Our plans to rethink the built environment keep going awry.
Jul 14, 2021 / Feature / Kate Wagner
How a Harlem Skyrise Got Hijacked—and Forgotten How a Harlem Skyrise Got Hijacked—and Forgotten
The fate of June Jordan’s visionary reimagining of Harlem, like the “progressive” design for IS 201, shows that when it comes to Utopias, the key question is always: “Whose?”
Jul 14, 2021 / Feature / Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts