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November 22, 2024In 1966, the poet Allen Ginsberg offered a remedy for America’s broken soul: If everyone tried LSD, he said, we would discover “some ray of glory or vastness...
November 13, 2024Kamala Harris’s decisive loss may have grabbed the headlines, but there was another big loser in this election: drugs. In Florida, voters failed to approve a constitutional...
October 31, 2024Politics nerds rejoice: You can now legally bet on elections. After a protracted legal battle, earlier this month the financial exchange Kalshi secured a court...
September 24, 2024Over the weekend, millions of Americans watched football. They cheered, they ate, and—more than ever—they gambled. The American Gaming Association expects $35 billion in...
August 19, 2024A couple of years after I graduated from college, concerned that my ability to understand philosophy was stagnating, I spent part of a year reading A Thousand Plateaus, the...
