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Blogs Liberty and Power Politics Killed the Dystopia

Jul 13, 2008

Politics Killed the Dystopia

by Liberty and Power

Twenty years after political attacks from both the Right and Left grounded a pathbreaking dystopian science fiction television series, fans and critics still remember the Captain Power story.

I discuss how anti-gun and pro-family groups missed the important lessons concerning liberty in the series they destroyed in the latest StarShipSofa podcast, available here.