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Everyday Utopia: Egalitarianism, Human Nature, & The Good Life
Everyday Utopia: Egalitarianism, Human Nature, & The Good Life
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Length:
85 minutes
Released:
May 17, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
Professor and author Kristen R. Ghodsee returns to Rev Left to discuss her newest book "Everyday Utopia: What 2,000 Years of Wild Experiments Can Teach Us About the Good Life". Together, her and Breht discuss intentional communities, social experiments, what utopia even means in this context, scientific v. utopian socialism, criticisms of the nuclear family and the socialist alternative, the function of student debt in modern america, the relationship between religious and spiritual orientations and radial social experimentation, public education, evolutionary biology, and more! Check out the book here: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Everyday-Utopia/Kristen-R-Ghodsee/9781982190217 Check out previous Rev Left episodes with Kristen here: https://revolutionaryleftradio.libsyn.com/size/5/?search=ghodsee Kristen's website: https://kristenghodsee.com/ The AK47 podcast created and hosted by Kristen: https://kristenghodsee.com/podcast Outro music: "Kill in a Heartbeat" by Danger, Moth Support Rev Left Radio: https://www.patreon.com/RevLeftRadio
Released:
May 17, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode
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