US politics
fromThe New Yorker
2 months agoMichael Pollan on What Happens When Priests Get High
The psilocybin study revealed that many religious leaders perceived divine experiences as transformative and often feminine.
"It's almost like a sick parody of your book," Pollan said of President Trump's actions in D.C. - cutting a trail through the federal bureaucracy, firing tens of thousands of workers, cancelling the kinds of research grants the book seeks to reform.