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Here is Eisner’s one-sentence summary of how to halve the homicide rate within three decades: “An effective rule of law, based on legitimate law enforcement, victim protection, swift and fair adjudication, moderate punishment, and humane prisons is critical to sustainable reductions in lethal violence.”
Steven Pinker • Enlightenment Now

Crazy: A Father's Search Through America's Mental Health Madness

Laughlin’s credo was simple: “To purify the breeding stock of the race at all costs.” As journalist Edwin Black notes in his 2003 book, War Against the Weak, Laughlin’s plan of attack was threefold: “sterilization, mass incarceration and sweeping immigration restrictions.” In furtherance of these goals, Laughlin created the imposingly named, feroci
... See moreBill Bryson • One Summer
Half a million children in the United States currently take antipsychotic drugs. Children from low-income families are four times as likely as privately insured children to receive antipsychotic medicines.
Bessel van der Kolk • The Body Keeps the Score: Mind, Brain and Body in the Transformation of Trauma
for one’s children.” Norton provided no empirical evidence to substantiate her position that certain “ghetto” Blacks were deficient in any of these values.
Ibram X. Kendi • How to Be an Antiracist
(Sasha Shulgin, who died in 2014, was a brilliant chemist who held a DEA license allowing him to synthesize novel psychedelic compounds, which he did in prodigious numbers. He also was the first to synthesize MDMA since it had been patented by Merck in 1912 and forgotten. Recognizing its psychoactive properties, he introduced the so-called empathog
... See moreMichael Pollan • How to Change Your Mind: The New Science of Psychedelics
As a prime example and but one of numerous initiatives undertaken in the first two decades of the twenty-first century, the Center for Psychedelic and Consciousness Research at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, has been conducting carefully designed and administered studies showing remarkable benefits and/or great promise treating su
... See moreJulie Holland • How Psychedelics Can Help Save the World: Visionary and Indigenous Voices Speak Out
Gabor Mate
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