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In “Tripping on Utopia,” Benjamin Breen chronicles the legendary anthropologist’s doomed effort to save the world through hallucinogens.

In Tripping on Utopia, historian Benjamin Breen writes about Mead's early research into psychedelic substances — and how it led to secret CIA experiments using psychedelics for interrogation.

Cary Grant and Congresswoman Clare Buth Luce, were experimenting with psychedelics years before Timothy Leary made LSD popular with hippies, Benjamin Breen writes in "Tripping on Utopia."

Based on Isabel Wilkerson's book Caste, DuVernay's film draws a line between India's caste system, the hierarchies of Nazi Germany and the historic subjugation of Black people in the United States.

Benjamin Breen talks about 'Tripping on Utopia,' his history of the uses and abuses of psychedelic drugs, and the promise of medical treatment today.

The company behind ChatGPT embodied a key question surrounding artificial intelligence: Will the profit motive face any constraints, for a technology that carries risks as well as benefits?

Weekender, our newsletter from correspondent Wallace Baine, delivers news from the Santa Cruz County arts community and the major (and not-so-major) events and shows to be on the lookout for this weekend.

These titles make up our third group of nominees for Season 23 of the Next Big Idea Club.

On cartography as historical argument

Putting President Biden’s record in context.