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Walt Disney himself had the original idea for a Disneyfied utopia, built under a giant dome, where residents would be whooshed from skyscraper to skyscraper on a high-speed monorail. As Walt envisioned it, no retirees would be allowed to live in his Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow, and nobody could own property. It was to be a paradise of young renters, a notion that surely would have been vigorously opposed by the senior-citizen lobby. But Disney died in 1966, before the plans were drawn...
Jorie Graham read "Guardian Angel of the Little Utopia" and "Guardian Angel of Self Knowledge," both of which concerned "frustrated painters [who were] only given human beings to create with...
Such failures make up only isolated counts of a wider indictment. British journalist Rosemary Righter, whose new book critiquing the U.N. is called Utopia Lost, notes that the planetary problem solver figured as a mere bystander in the climactic upheaval of the past 50 years: the Soviet empire's collapse, Germany's unification and the cold war's end. She says, "This was probably the greatest political challenge of this decade, yet it didn't occur to the Russians or East Europeans or anyone else that the U.N. was relevant...
Bell's The Cultural Contraditions of Capitalism, Porter Professor of Philosophy Robert Nozick's Anarchy, State and Utopia, and Conant University Professor Emeritus John Rawls' A Theory of Justice are among the most influential books of the 1970s...
...history tells us anything, it is that lowering the barrier between church and state will lead not to some harmonious utopia, but to open strife and the oppression of minority viewpoints. This is the history that the Founders knew, and we have seen these lessons from the Crusades to modern-day Yugoslavia...