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Everyday Utopia and Radical Imagination with Kristen Ghodsee

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Utopia: A Deep Intellectual History

Sally Kohn: There's a quote from Oscar Wilde that I wanted to read for our listeners because I really loved it. For me, I really wanted to do a deep intellectual history of many of the socialist ideas that I've been teaching about for the last 25 to 30 years. She says she was inspired by this sort of deeper history of utopian thinking and have socialism and communism were both these utopian projects that had a really long, human heritage.Kohn: The book is also very much an activist point of view as a mother who has a lot of friends in that age group.

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