Psychotherapist Wilderness Sarchild, licensed to treat patients with the psychedelic drug psilocybin tells us everything we need to know about the journey.
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In Pledging My Time, musicologist Ray Padget collected 60 years of stories about Bob Dylan through the memories of the many musicians with whom he shared the stage.
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Amy Brady recounts the very cool history of ice and how a visionary from Boston convinced people who had never even seen it to love it. Hint: Frozen Daiquiris.
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Marcel Bruer was one of America’s most innovative designers. If his Wellfleet retreat—containing priceless relics of the Bauhaus movement—hits the market, it will be demolished.
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Although the battlefields have moved from nude postcards to porn hub, Sociologist Kelsy Burke explains why America’s obsession with pornography is still front and center in the culture wars.
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Ecstasy is the Rave drug. It’s also our best hope for treating PTSD and other mental illnesses. In I Feel Love Rachel Nuwer unpacks the MDMA story, from Berkeley lab to Burning Man.
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Malignant narcissist? Hypo-manic sociopath? In his satiric novel Death of the Great Man, noted psychiatrist Peter D. Kramer gets our ex-president on the couch.
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In War Made Invisible Norman Solomon tells us why we’re largely blind to the fact that America has continuously been engaged in wars for over two decades. Hint: It’s the press, Stupid.
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Because we’re desperate to find ourselves.
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