A personal essay newsletter from an artist and anthropologist who examines the self and society through reflective, cultural-critical writing about how people are shaped and how they might reshape themselves. Issues range from essays on bodily legibility and capitalism to lighter observations about everyday life and technology.
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Essays by a former SEAL that draw on military history, anthropology and philosophy to examine meaning, mortality, training and purpose. Readers get reflective, literary pieces that pair historical anecdotes with personal field experience.
Long-form essays on psychedelic research, covering pharmacology, policy, philosophy of mind and the cultural and anthropological contexts of DMT and related compounds. Writing is by Stephen Page and draws on academic sources, including coursework from an Exeter MSc, to examine how psychedelic experience and its history are interpreted.
A tea newsletter presenting in-depth field research on pu'er tea from a research trip to Menghai, Yunnan. It combines history, ethnography, agronomy and processing analysis with a candid, irreverent voice.
Long-form essays that use historical narrative and economic and social analysis to explain why the world works as it does, from healthcare pricing to kinship societies to national development. Readers get carefully reported, argument-driven explanations of big questions.
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