Word: utopianism
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...developers, carries a message that should be heeded by Washington [Jan. 18]. Bad economic choices and unexpected economic reversals are inevitable for any nation. Though painful for those involved, market forces will eventually clean up these disasters and restore stability--if allowed to do so. Attempts to create a utopian society and protect citizens from this pain will only defer the inevitable and possibly make the eventual correction catastrophic...
...precisely at times like these that dealing with the world's most opaque regime becomes trickier than usual. When, this past Spring, the North test-fired a long-range missile - in violation of U.N. resolutions and on the very same day President Barack Obama was giving a utopian speech in Prague about his vision for a nuclear-free world - even the President's engagement-oriented advisers on East Asia were furious. They happily went to the U.N. to press for even tighter sanctions against Pyongyang, got them, and then sat back and waited to see if the North's tone...
...those academics and bookworms, however, what a coup this machine is! One can almost begin to imagine the fulfillment of that utopian dream held by book collectors since at least the 15th century: a comprehensive, universal library—a single place where nearly every surviving printed book in English can be accessed within minutes. Perhaps they will still cost, but they will be available, all of them, in print...
...book—which Nader describes as being “practical utopian fiction” rather than a novel—is to describe a future that he sees as both bright and possible...
...described "conservative gloominary" leads readers on a bleak tour of modern life, bemoaning the state of our society and culture (the '00s are the first decade without a living novelist featured on TIME's cover, he laments). Derbyshire's no fan of liberalism, but his main targets are the utopian fantasies of both parties and the notion that humanity can patch the flaws that led us to this woeful state to begin with. Embracing hard truths would better prepare us for the real world, he writes--and might have helped us avoid the mortgage meltdown to boot. The native Englishman...