Podcast and Radio Interviews

The Point Podcast, “Selected Essays,” “Ellen Wayland-Smith on Siddhartha Mukherjee,” July 2025.

Curbed podcast, “Nice Try!,” Episode 4, “The Free Love Utopia Behind Your Forks and Knives.” June 20, 2019.

NPR, Planet Money, Episode 777, “Free Love, Free Market,” July 2017.

NPR Here and Now, “The Rich, Sexy History of Oneida—Commune and Silverware Maker,” May 10, 2016.

Reviews of Oneida: From Free Love Utopia to the Well Set-Table

Paula Uruburu, “The Shortlist: New York History,”The New York Times, August 26, 2016.

Akash Kapur, “The Return of the Utopians,” The New Yorker, September 26, 2016.

Lidija Haas, “Game Theories: the Past and Future of Dating, Harper’s Magazine, June 2016.

Hannah Gold, “Oneida’s Original, Utopian Vision,” The Nation, August 6, 2016.

Kate Daloz, “Who’s Utopia Is This Anyway? The New Republic, September 13, 2016.

Lorraine Berry, “Sex, Faith and Cutlery,” The Guardian, June 9, 2016.

Wendy Smith, “From Free-Love Utopia to Corporate Powerhouse in ‘Oneida,’” The Boston Globe, April 28, 2016.

Judy Berman, “Inside the 19 th -Century Free Love Commune Powered by Electric Sex, Eugenics, and Delusions of Immortality,” Gawker, June 5, 2016.

Ann Fabian, “When Oneida, N.Y. Was a Center of Utopianism, Eugenics, and Free Love.” The National Book Review

Nikil Saval, “Twilight of the Idols,” Bookforum, Dec/Jan 2017