Babel: An Attempted Fantasy Novel of Ideas
Though the magic system is creative and raises some interesting thoughts, Babel was trying to be a novel of ideas offering a strong opposition to colonialism—and in this, it failed.
May 16, 2025
Angelica Walker-Werth
Angelica is a fellow at Objective Standard Institute, an assistant editor and writer for The Objective Standard, and an Ayn Rand Fellow with Foundation for Economic Education’s Hazlitt Project. Her roles at OSI include managing the internship and Active-Mind scholarship programs, course administration and development, and editing On Solid Ground. She writes nonfiction articles and speaks; you can see her work at walker-werth.com. She is a voracious reader of fiction in her spare time, and writes about the ideas in fictional works at fictionosophy.substack.com.
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