![]() ![]() ![]() Kapur offers as examples the tragic histories of Adolf Hitler’s Germany, the Soviet’s Gulag, Pol Pot’s Cambodia and other 20th century nations and communities. ![]() Kapur’s article is an examination of the more frightening aspects of these “intentional communities” as they matured and morphed in the 20th century, displaying the contradictions and hypocrisies that result from “the sordid realities of human nature” that often devolve into tyranny. ![]() “One thing we can say about the seductive visionaries who led the utopian movement in America,” Reece wrote, “is that they did not lead the most self-examined lives.” In “Utopia Drive,” Reece examined the history of a handful of America’s 19th-century utopian settlements and towns in Kentucky, Indiana, Ohio, Virginia, New York and Massachusetts, analyzing their histories to find lessons for the present. 3, 2016) - In Akash Kapur’s treatise “The Return of the Utopians,” published in today’s issue of The New Yorker magazine, he made liberal reference to University of Kentucky Associate Professor of English Erik Reece’s new book “Utopia Drive.” UK Associate Professor of English Erik Reese. ![]()
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