Exploring Eustopia and Knee Innovations

Over 500 years ago, Sir Thomas More wrote about utopia. Since then, countless communities around the world have worked to create their own versions of a perfect world. This hour, we look at examples of utopian communities from around the world.

GUESTS:

• Avery Trufelman: Host of the podcast Nice Try!

• Akash Kapur: Author of Better to Have Gone: Love, Death, and the Quest for Utopia in Auroville

• Samir Patel: Former editor-in-chief of Atlas Obscura

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Colin McEnroe, Jonathan McNicol, and Cat Pastor contributed to this show, which originally aired August 18, 2021.

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