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Capitalism’s Favorite Drug

The dark history of how coffee took over the world.

by Michael Pollan via The Atlantic on March 15, 2020

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Margaret Mead and Joe Rogan.

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

Collage of meat products emerging from Pat Buchanan's head.

How Food Became a Weapon in The Right’s Culture Wars

First came the politics of right-wing grievance. Then came the new foodie culture. Together, they combined to create one toxic food fight.

by Brent Cunningham via The Nation on December 12, 2022

Botanical drawing of a bunch of grapes.

Fruits of Empire

The plant explorers of the USDA succeeded in bringing the world’s fruits to American supermarkets. But at what human, ecological, and gustatory cost?

by Willa Glickman via New York Review of Books on November 12, 2021

The War on Coffee

The history of caffeine and capitalism can get surprisingly heated.

by Adam Gopnik via The New Yorker on April 20, 2020

Wild Thing: A New Biography of Thoreau

Freeing Thoreau from layers of caricature that have long distorted his legacy.

by Daegan Miller via Los Angeles Review of Books on July 16, 2017

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