West of Eden: Communes and Utopia in Northern California

By Seth SandronskyBerkeley PatchJuly 16, 2012 I met Berkeley’s R. Jeffrey Lustig in the twilight of his career teaching government…

Midwest Book Review A new way of doing things attracted many in the cultural revolutions of the 1960s. “West of…

by Seth SandronskyZ MagazineJuly/August 2012 If you favor the Occupy Wall Street moment, you might also savor the personal and…

by P. HarveyCHOICESeptember 2012 This excellent, unique collection comes via the joint efforts of a multidisciplinary team of scholars as…

By Jesse Drewreprinted by Tank MagazineMarch 2014 As a teenage runaway in the 1970s, media artist and writer Jesse Drew…

By Sara MatthewsHumboldt Journal of Social RelationsIssues 36, 2014 The writing of history has left the American communal and “back-to-the-land”…

By A. IwasaSlingshotFebruary 3rd, 2016 Coming out of what started as the Communes Project, a collaborative effort between the Institute…