The man who wrote one of environmentalism’s most-cited essays was a racist, eugenicist, nativist and Islamaphobe—plus his argument was wrong. Fifty years ago, University of California professor Garrett Hardin penned […]
Why Common Ownership Is a Route to Social Transformation
The case for despair is made. Now let’s start to get out of the mess we’re in. “to be truly radical is to make hope possible, rather than despair convincing” […]
The horror films got it wrong. This virus has turned us into caring neighbours
Across the world, Covid-19 has triggered community action on a vast scale. It’s a powerful riposte to both government and private money There is no guarantee that this resurgence of […]
Utopia now
What is light (knowledge, design) becomes global; What is heavy (manufacturing) is local and shared In 1890 William Morris imagined a world free from wage slavery. Thanks to technology, his […]