America's Utopian Communities: From Plymouth Colony's Failed Experiments in Collective Farming to 60s Hippie CommunesTimothy Miller

Published: Feb. 6, 2018, 8:35 a.m.

One of the oldest traditions in America is trying (and failing) to set up a utopian community. French Enlightenment thinkers such as Jean-Jacques Rousseau believed if man could return to a state of nature \u2013 free from social conditioning that put him...