A society without utopian visions breeds a present mired in despair. In the absence of shared dreams, only disillusionment—along with anger, alienation and animosity—remains. The decline of utopian ...
Aaron Robertson’s grandparents had a farm in Promise Land, Tenn. In a new book, he explores the history and meaning of such utopian communities for African Americans. Credit...Day Brièrre Supported by ...
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(RNS) — Aaron Robertson’s ‘The Black Utopians: Searching for Paradise and the Promised Land in America,’ is out Tuesday (Oct. 1). (RNS) — Before he was a Rhodes Scholar, translator and writer ...
[amazon 0674048725 full]Samuel Moyn, The Last Utopia: Human Rights in History (Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press, 2010), 352 pp., $27.95. PEOPLE THINK of history in the long term, but history, in fact, is ...