Atlas Obscura on Slate is a new travel blog. Like us on Facebook, Tumblr, or follow us on Twitter @atlasobscura. A stone building with blue trim, once used as a laboratory, now holds much of the ...

As a long time progressive, I am very alarmed to see low income Americans flock to the reactionary Tea Party and Patriot movement and the ultra conservative candidates they support. Especially after ...

When Wilhelm Reich died in prison in 1957, he was a scientist disgraced. Remembered, if at all, as the inventor of the orgone accumulator (William S. Burroughs and William Steig, among others, were ...

Mary Boyd Higgins, the product of a privileged youth in Indianapolis, was living comfortably in New York in the 1950s when she volunteered to manage the trust of Wilhelm Reich, a highly controversial ...

The Lonely City author explores Wilhelm Reich’s insights into the physical impact of emotional pain in a deft book of many parts The compelling tale that Olivia Laing, acclaimed author of The Trip to ...

A true story of Wilhelm Reich, a pioneer prosecuted and imprisoned. His books and publications were banned and burned in America, where he dies in a federal penitentiary. Now 60 years after his death ...

“THE PROBLEM OF SEXUALITY PERMEATES by its very nature every field of scientific investigation.” This is too often ignored by revolutionaries who are willing to discuss Marx’s economic doctrines or ...

Selma James on Wilhelm Reich, women, sexuality and wages for housework. From Falling Wall Book Review #3/4 (1975). Review: What Is Class Consciousness? by Wilhelm Reich A critical review of Wilhelm ...

Austrian-born Wilhelm Reich became one of Sigmund Freud's most brilliant disciples, only to die in a United States prison at age 60. It has been more than fifty years since his death, but it is ...

Often dismissed as a charlatan after his death, Reich’s ideas about the links between sex and mental health inspired many in former Yugoslavia – from anti-war to gay activists. Charlatan, pervert, ...