The Spirit of Utopia

Utopia seems deader than a doornail—no better proof than the recent long academic monographs about its history. Yet, the spirit of utopia erupts again and again in the least expected places. While we are sophisticated to the point of scorning those fantastic dreams of universal goodness and gratification, it is precisely in the strongholds of learning that graffiti proclaim the abolition of the state, of work, of boredom and repression, or the outbreak of a new era in which Love rules supre...