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California is living America's dystopian future

  • Written by Stephanie LeMenager, Professor of English Literature, University of Oregon
The Maria Fire billows above Santa Paula, California on Oct. 31.AP/Noah Berger

The Golden State is on fire, which means that an idea of American utopia is on fire, too.

Utopias are the good places of our imagination, while dystopias are the places where everything goes terribly wrong, where evil triumphs and nature destroys her own. Frequently...

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