
A neuroanthropologist's take on America: history, politics, religion and counterculture. Hot takes on cool topics. Cool takes on hot topics.
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(Ed. Note:) One in an informal series of reflections on America at 250, from a historian of early American history and its countercultural movements.
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If you haven’t noticed lately, there’s been a non-stop barrage of op-eds and call outs regarding the Red Menace of Communism sweeping the land.
On the 250th Anniversary of this Great Nation, our Fearless Leader took the time to warn of its...
We seem to have fully entered what MacArthur Genius Stephen Pyne calls the “Pyrocene” era.
A period in history centrally defined by what’s on fire.
(Ironically brought about by our recent ability to control fire within internal combustio...
That was the topic of a panel I recently led with National Geographic explorer/Harvard anthropologist Wade Davis, trauma specialist Dr. Gabor Maté and Dutch-Indonesian activist Indra Adnan (more on how that turned out in a moment!).
The ho...
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