A Communitarian Prospect

Where in the United States can we point to even a single well-planned communitarian experiment that has the virtues of being plural, open, secular, and democratic?

When I survey the vast urban-industrial wasteland of contemporary America, I often ask myself this question. That its dominant corporate institutions show few signs of being radically transformed only adds to the bafflement. Does it mean that the idealistic young of the next generation will have nothing better to look forwar...