The Need for a Socialist Morality Ignoring moral debates has led the Left to implicitly privilege being authentic over being good. This is a conceptual and moral mistake, but it is also a severe political limitation as well.
Making the Present the Enemy of the Future Kensington, Philadelphia has a social problem. Harm reduction policies won’t fix it.
One or the Other Letting people struggling with drug abuse run themselves into a decrepit state with no social provisions or adequate forms of drug treatment is a tragic mistake. So too is trying to revive a drug prohibitionism that only ever works at the cost of extending the rot of contemporary society.
Using Our rationalizations for using social media are much more sophisticated than those for using drugs.
What is Limbic Capitalism? An interview with historian David Courtwright on his new book, <em>The Age of Addiction.</em>