Aldous Huxley's Manuscript of "Boundaries of Utopia," 1931

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In the Winter 1931 issue, VQR published English author Aldous Huxley’s essay “Boundaries of Utopia,” which Huxley had originally titled “Notes on Liberty and the Boundaries of the Promised Land.” Though he did not typically write nonfiction (his famous novel, Brave New World [Chatto & Windus] would be published in 1932), Huxley’s essay proved both timely and prophetic. Written during a time of dramatic changes in labor relations in the US, and in the midst of Fascism’s rise in Europe, Huxley predicted many of the problems that continue to plague nations and global economies today, namely the imbalance between the haves and the have-nots.