Back to the City!

As Compersia and Point A aim to demonstrate, a city can be the perfect place to start an egalitarian, income-sharing community.

Why I Study Communal Societies

By Susan Matarese The study of intentional communities, both past and present, is a rich and rewarding enterprise for the student of political theory. The members of intentional communities, whether historic or contemporary, religious or secular, short-lived or...

Overcoming Our Americanness

Unless we learn from past and present communities, and collate lessons from our own, we will bob as separate crafts on the ocean of our uncooperative and ahistorical Americanness.

Tracing Windward’s Memeology

The Haudenosaunee, the Oneida Community, and The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress, with its vision of a “polyamorous line family,” all form part of Windward’s conceptual ancestry.