In “Pluribus,” Utopia Isn’t All It’s Cracked Up to Be
- Posted on November 20, 2025
- By The New Yorker
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In “Pluribus,” Utopia Isn’t All It’s Cracked Up to Be

Artists and thinkers have long fixated on the notion of an ideal society—but these experiments, in fiction and in life, inevitably fall short. Why are we still drawn in by the possibility of perfection?