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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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Freakonomics Radio

The book examines various historical experiments in communal living and explores the concept of a 'good life' as it relates to family structures and societal norms.

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The book examines various historical experiments in communal living and explores the concept of a 'good life' as it relates to family structures and societal norms.

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That's Kristen Gatze. She's an ethnographer and a professor at the University of Pennsylvania, and an author of a new book called *Everyday Utopia*, what 2,000 years of wild experiments can teach us about the good life.

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