Failed Utopia

Part seven is all about the Utopians' military, and this might actually be one of the few times Thomas More manages to stay on topic.Connect on Facebook or at the Failed Utopia website.Written and pro...

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In part six, Thomas More makes us think with the chapter title, Of Their Slaves, and Of Their Marriages, that we're just going to hear about slaves and marriage in Utopia. But somehow he manages to ta...

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In part five of the series, we'll continue Book 2 by reading Of the Travelling of the Utopians and find out how they they regard the pleasures and pains of life.Connect on Facebook or at the Failed Ut...

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Today in the fourth part of the series, I'll talk about weird old Greek words and mention Final Fantasy for no real reason at all and read you the introduction to Book 2 and the first four chapters, w...

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In the third part of this series, Hythloday continues his discourse, and the friends discuss communism, greed, money, property, wealth inequality, Plato, religious men who make spiritual compromises f...

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In the second episode of this series on Thomas More's Utopia, Hythloday continues his discourse. We'll hear more about the death penalty, Renaissance humanism, how kings who are selfish stupidly act a...

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It's Failed Utopia's inaugural fiction takeover! I’m doing something a little different for the next few episodes and talking not about real world stuff but about a fictional utopia. And what better p...

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It's Pride month, and today I'm bringing you a story about a trans and queer haven in southern Colorado. It's an alpaca ranch founded by a group of trans people who wanted to create a little utopia wh...

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