Aldous Huxley—English writer, humanist, early-modern psychedelic advocate and original dangerous mind—would have turned 116 years old today. In May 1958, five years after his first mescaline trip and three years after his first LSD trip, the author of Brave New World and The Doors of Perception appeared on the late-night show The Mike Wallace Interview. Wallace had previously interviewed everyone from Margaret Sanger to Salvador Dali, and he works beautifully here with the dapper 63-year-old thinker.

The future anchor of 60 Minutes ran through a range of subjects with Huxley, including how overpopulation relates to freedom; technological development in proportion to authoritarianism; future dictatorships; Brave New World in America; the power of advertising in politics; subliminals and brainwashing; education and group morality; societal decentralization; how productivity necessitates freedom; and of course drugs.

Five years later, Huxley would die of cancer on the same day of President Kennedy’s assassination, tripping on 100 micrograms of LSD injected by his wife.