Tag: addiction

• Brad Pitt on Grief, Love, Depression, Drinking, and Still Making Movies

  August 12, 2026

  Brad Pitt has lived a singular life. He resides in the top 1 percent of the top 1 percent of all movie stars, not only today but ever, as measured… more ›

• Natasha Schüll on the Antisocial Lure of Gambling

  April 29, 2026

  Listen: https://ift.tt/YBzEFUx As an anthropologist, Natasha Schüll spent more than a decade doing field work in Vegas casinos, especially among the slot machine addicts. She tells Michael Lewis why many… more ›

• The Goon Squad, by Daniel Kolitz

  October 23, 2025

  Loneliness, porn’s next frontier, and the dream of endless masturbation https://harpers.org/archive/2025/11/the-goon-squad-daniel-kolitz-porn-masturbation-loneliness/ more ›

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  May 26, 2025

  https://www.geopoliticalmonitor.com/west-africa-kush-crisis-how-synthetic-drugs-undermine-states/ more ›

• Africa’s desperate youth are getting high on…

  May 13, 2018

  Gutter water isn’t the only dangerous cocktail of drugs which a generation of young Africans use to get their high or fix for relatively cheap. Everything from lizard dung and… more ›