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Category Archives: Opiods
When Did Opium Become Bad?
I have a great-great grandfather Chinese ancestor who sold opium among many other products at his store in central Queensland in the late 19th Century. My dad was 1/8th Chinese and he was regularly called “Chinky” at school. His mom … Continue reading
Stephen Turner’s Unfinished Work: Gaps, Needed Boldness, and a Freer Intellectual Trajectory
Stephen Turner’s reconstruction of democratic theory begins as an act of intellectual hygiene. Strip away the myths. Discard the will of the people, justice, and the rule of law as normative ideals. What remains is procedure. Law is a hierarchy … Continue reading
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HBO’s Alex Gibney Doco Crime of the Century (8-5-21)
The Opium Wars: https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=70956 https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/the-crime-of-the-century-tv-review-2021 What would America have been like without slavery? https://www.takimag.com/article/alternative-america/ Peter Zeihan on the geo-politics of Latin America, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVrNWPltr6g Covid deaths in 2021: https://www.statista.com/statistics/1101932/coronavirus-covid19-cases-and-deaths-number-us-americans/ COVID-19 continues to be a leading cause of death in the U.S. … Continue reading
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Opioid Nation
Dr. Marcia Angell writes: The problem with these three books, and it’s a big one, is that they treat the Purdue story as though it were the whole story of the opioid epidemic. But OxyContin did not give rise to … Continue reading
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Dreamland: The True Tale of America’s Opiate Epidemic
Sam Quinones wrote in this 2015 book: * Yet Mexican drug traffickers avoided the town, police told me. This made Huntington rare. Mexican traffickers operated all over America—in Tennessee and Idaho and Alaska. But not in West Virginia. West Virginia … Continue reading
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