The youth of the country, along with some dreamers and fighters, were the ones pushing it forward little by little.
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Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
16 Oct. 2026
Among its most memorable attractions is a historic railroad that once carried artists and archaeologists, dreamers and scientists, some of whom traveled on the train incognito before participating in the top-secret Manhattan Project.
Witty, bitter, flamboyant, and emotionally grounded, the dialogue swings, delightfully, between intimate exchanges and grandiloquent soliloquies, capturing the vulnerability of idealists in the face of evil.
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Emily Nussbaum,
New Yorker,
23 Oct. 2026
At its core, Dark Matter is a series about the folly and hubris of humankind, even when — nay, especially when — idealists have the power to achieve transformative change.
The upcoming Super Bowl will be on Valentine’s Day, meaning this is the one time that the romantics in your life will stop watching men crashing into each other.
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Alejandra Gularte,
Vulture,
27 Oct. 2026
Sorry to all the hopeless romantics, but the answer is TAP-DANCED.
The utopians invent paradise and the dystopians invent hell.
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Tessa Solomon,
ARTnews.com,
30 Apr. 2026
The playwright understood something about the economic reasoning of such an innovation, however, for if the futurists and techno-utopians once imagined that machines would do all of our dreary work to free us to be artists, writers, and musicians, the opposite is now the case.
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