Book

Tripping on Utopia

Margaret Mead, the Cold War, and the Troubled Birth of Psychedelic Science

Benjamin Breen

2024

Grand Central Publishing

Associated Ideas, People, and Places

Book Review

Turn on, Tune in, Write Code

How psychedelics went from counterculture to grind culture.

by Geoff Shullenberger via The New Atlantis on April 12, 2024
Book Excerpt

Tripping on LSD at the Dolphin Research Lab

How a 1960s interspecies communication experiment went haywire.

by Benjamin Breen via The Chronicle of Higher Education on February 27, 2024
Book Excerpt

One of Our Most Respected 20th-Century Scientists Was LSD-Curious. What Happened?

A document in her papers in the Library of Congress sheds new light on postwar research on psychedelics.

by Benjamin Breen via Slate on February 10, 2024
Book Review

When America First Dropped Acid

Well before the hippies arrived, LSD and other hallucinogens were poised to enter the American mainstream.

by Margaret Talbot via The New Yorker on January 22, 2024
Origin Story

Margaret Mead, Technocracy, and the Origins of AI's Ideological Divide

The anthropologist helped popularize both techno-optimism and the concept of existential risk.

by Benjamin Breen via Res Obscura on November 21, 2023

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