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Everyday Utopia What 2,000 Years of Wild Experiments Can Teach Us About the Good Life

Kristen R. Ghodsee

A “fascinating” ( In the 6th century BCE, the Greek philosopher Pythagoras—a man remembered today more for his theorem about right-angled triangles than for his progressive politics—founded a commune in a seaside village in what’s now southern Italy. The men and women there shared their property, l...

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The Ezra Klein Show

The book examined centuries of communal experiments and argued that modern society suffers from a lack of care, urging a rethinking of private and family life.

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So I took a trip to Santa Cruz recently, and I was wandering through my favorite bookstore, bookshop Santa Cruz, and I ran across this book by Kristen Godsey called Everyday Utopia, What 2,000 Years o...

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The book examined centuries of communal experiments and argued that modern society suffers from a lack of care, urging a rethinking of private and family life.

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So I took a trip to Santa Cruz recently, and I was wandering through my favorite bookstore, bookshop Santa Cruz, and I ran across this book by Kristen Godsey called Everyday Utopia, What 2,000 Years of Wild Experiments Can Teach Us About the Good Life.

So I want to begin with the point you make early in the book where you write, quote, today's future positive writers critique our economies while largely seeming to ignore that anything might be amiss in our private lives.

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