Lewis Mumford was a prolific writer. His collective works of 60 years fill approximately 2-1/2 feet on my bookshelves. In a way, they all flowed from his original book published in 1922, The Story of ...

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Utopianism has long been demeaned by mainstream academics and journalists. For more than a century, perhaps beginning with H.G. Wells' blockbuster, The Time Machine in 1895, pessimism, rather, has ...

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Built to lift families out of poverty, Pruitt-Igoe collapsed under the weight of neglect, segregation, and broken promises. Its implosion wasn’t just physical—it marked the death of America’s postwar ...

"Commerce, which is vaguely defined as free exchange, is merely one method of free exchange, and not the best. To define it more precisely, commerce is a mode of exchange in which the seller has the ...

This Uber-for-moving startup is quietly taking the world by storm, here’s how anyone can invest with $100. A startup that turns videos into games gets backing from Mark Cuban and opens a round for ...