27 min
History's Deadliest Utopias The Permanent Things
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- Education
In this episode, I talk to Dr. Daniel Spillman, a professor in OBU's Western Civ. sequence, about the dangers of Utopian thinking and the death toll that comes from immanentizing the eschaton.
Books mentioned in this episode:
Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville
Communism: A History by Richard Pipes
Nothing to Envy by Barbara Demick
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
1984 by George Orwell
Animal Farm by George Orwell
In this episode, I talk to Dr. Daniel Spillman, a professor in OBU's Western Civ. sequence, about the dangers of Utopian thinking and the death toll that comes from immanentizing the eschaton.
Books mentioned in this episode:
Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville
Communism: A History by Richard Pipes
Nothing to Envy by Barbara Demick
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
1984 by George Orwell
Animal Farm by George Orwell
27 min