In a CBS News / New York Times poll earlier this year, 90% of respondents agreed that the United States healthcare system needed either “fundamental changes” or a “complete overhaul.” Most were satisfied with their own care, but the majority (81%) said they were either somewhat or very dissatisfied with the cost of care. And [...]

America’s so-called “war on drugs” is ostensibly focused on eliminating nonessential, unprescribed drug use. The reason given is the purported harm that follows. And this rationale has become accepted (to varying degrees) by most of the population. It’s a sort of benevolent prohibition; it’s the government’s way of saving us from ourselves. People accept this [...]

This is my part of a larger collaborative project for my senior seminar writing class. I’ll link up the full project when it goes live.
Don’t bother remembering facts and figures, historical events and persons. The pedagogical norm of our school systems – the regurgitation of facts in multiple-choice or short answer form – is a [...]

”…that which is beyond question is the solid ground on which one stands.”
–– Tesnay Serequeberhan
“Our generation is the first, ever, to have made the search for self-awareness a crime, if it is done with the use of plants or chemical compounds as the means of opening the psychic doors.”
–– Alexander Shulgin1
The use and acceptance of [...]

This was a response to an essay we read in one of my classes this semester (The Global Political Economy of Oil). It’s pretty rough but worth posting since I probably won’t get around to talking about ethonal again in the near future. Most of it will make sense to someone who isn’t in the [...]