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The Reason Prison Essay Experiment

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Subscribe to Reason Plus for early access to the October 2026 issue. One of the stranger books in the English language is Samuel Butler's Erewhon. Not Erewhon the upscale Los Angeles grocery chain, whose devotees happily pay the GDP of a small nation for a smoothie, but Erewhon the 1872 satirical novel, whose title is "nowhere" spelled (almost) backward. The book's current claim to fame is that Frank Herbert borrowed Butler's name for the anti-machine Butlerian Jihad in the Dune universe. But Bu

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