Burning Man Festival

Escape From Burning Man + Musk vs. the A.D.L. + Listener Questions

“We’re better behind keyboards, not behind wrenches.”

Cleaning up after the festival is always a challenge, but this year the trash is soaked with mud and trapped in hardening sludge.

Tens of thousands of people have been stranded for days at the festival’s remote desert site in Nevada because of torrential rain.

The annual festival started as an impromptu bonfire, but now attracts tens of thousands of revelers a year. How did it get here?

There are many causes for concern at the mud-drenched gathering, but human nature isn’t one of them.