Definitions and explanations of key terms used throughout the site.
The pursuit or vision of an ideal society characterized by perfection in social, political, and moral conditions.
When I was young, there was an amazing publication called The Whole Earth Catalog, which was one of the bibles of my generation. It was created by a fellow named Stuart Brand, not far from here in Menlo Park, and...
Modern revolutionaries are believers, no less committed and intense than were the Christians or Muslims of an earlier era. What is new is the belief that a perfect secular order will emerge from the forcible overthrow of traditional authority.
Source: Fire in the Minds of Men by James H. Billington
