Tripping on Utopia: Margaret Mead, the Cold War and the Troubled Birth of Psychedelic Science

Kim Adams is a postdoctoral fellow at the PennState Humanities Institute, where she studies critical medical humanities. She co-hosts the podcast High Theory and is writing a book about electricity and the body, tentatively titled Building the Body Electric.

Kim Adams

Timothy Leary Is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things: On Benjamin Breen’s “Tripping on Utopia”

"There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them." — Federico García Lorca

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"The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not." — Gertrude Stein

Science &amp; Technology

"Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history." — George Bernard Shaw

History

Kim Adams is a postdoctoral fellow at the PennState Humanities Institute, where she studies critical medical humanities. She co-hosts the podcast High Theory and is writing a book about electricity and the body, tentatively titled Building the Body Electric.

Kim Adams

Articles

Timothy Leary Is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things: On Benjamin Breen’s “Tripping on Utopia”