Famous From Noir and Dystopian Cinema, This Building Was Inspired by Utopian Literature

Famous From Noir and Dystopian Cinema, This Building Was Inspired by Utopian Literature

Listen and subscribe on Stitcher, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and all major podcast apps. There’s this very cool building in L.A. called the Bradbury Building. It’s an office building, it’s downtown. So you walk in and there’s this kind of dark, narrow hallway, but then as you go further into the building it opens up into this big atrium. You can see straight up to the ceiling. It’s made of glass, there’s these beautiful elaborate wrought iron rail…

How Exactly Will Capitalism Deliver a Utopian Future?

Photo by Douglas Sanchez on UnsplashOne reason I’m drawn to Marxism is that it recognizes its limits. Unlike other political, social, and economic ideologies I’ve encountered, socialist thought leaves space for uncertainty about the future. Embedded in Marx’s work was the admission that he didn’t have all the answers. While Marxism provides a helpful framework for analyzing the sources of current problems, it does not decree an iron rule for hum…