The Real Digital Divide
by Michael ToscanoThe real digital divide is between those who can get a break from their devices and those who cannot. Continue Reading »
Recovering Our Memory
by Michael ToscanoWe have no hope that we can raise the next generation to be entirely innocent of Silicon Valley’s tyrannical devices, but if we can teach them to treasure the world of books, we will keep alive in them the world of memory. Continue Reading »
Addiction Is the Disease of Desire
by Michael W. CluneThe drug problem is a health crisis, but it is even more a spiritual crisis. To confront it, we need to recover an ancient truth about desire: I am not what I want. Continue Reading »
Conservatives Don't Get the Porn Crisis
by H. A. HazonyInternet pornography is nothing like the naughty magazines of our grandfathers. The problem with pornography consumption today is not that it is a sexual vice, but that it is an addiction. Continue Reading »
The Mind of an Addict
by Mark BauerleinMichael W. Clune joins the podcast to discuss his memoir on drug addiction and recovery, White Out: The Secret Life of Heroin. Continue Reading »
Reefer Sadness
by Peter HitchensTell Your Children: The Truth About Marijuana, Mental Illness, and Violence by alex berenson free press, 272 pages, $26 The smoking of marijuana, with its careful preparation of the elements and the solemn passing around of the shared joint, was the unholy communion of the counterculture . . . . Continue Reading »
Getting Out of God’s Way
by John WatersThe twelve steps of Alcoholics Anonymous disintegrate arrogance, clearing the way for Grace to enter. Continue Reading »
American Carnage
by Christopher CaldwellThere have always been drug addicts in need of help, but the scale of the present wave of heroin and opioid abuse is . . . . Continue Reading »
The Fantasy of Addiction
by Peter HitchensI never meant to start an argument about addiction. I had carried my private doubts on the subject around in my head for years, in the “heresy” section where I keep my really risky thoughts. And I don’t recommend disagreeing in public with Hollywood royalty, either, which is how it happened. . . . . Continue Reading »
Porn Goes Mainstream
by Paul S. LoverdeSeven years into his addiction to online porn, John wrote to tell me of his struggles. His addiction began when he misspelled a word in an online search and was taken to a hardcore porn site. Continue Reading »
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