Thinkers

The tale of acid sage Dr. Timothy Leary’s prison escape and subsequent exile is among the most amusing stories in the annals of drug culture…

It’s cellist/composer Arthur Russell’s great triumph that his influence became so massively widespread, and his great tragedy that he never knew it. His AIDS-related death…

It’s difficult to think of something–anything–that could endear Ayn Rand to me, but the news that she was a cat person certainly would be in…

Raven, Your Acid Bath Princess of the Darkness and her pal Tara are on a goth-lite freakout! Meet the new store-bought modern angst. The truth…

With his latest movie Borgman, award-winning Dutch filmmaker Alex van Warmerdam has created a dark, comic, incredibly thrilling, and haunting tale that holds the attention…

Congratulations are in order for Dangerous Minds pal Douglas Rushkoff, make that Professor Douglas Rushkoff, as he’ll now be called in his new position at…

I had to laugh at the way Slavoj Žižek so masterfully ended his Guardian op ed piece, “Who is responsible for the US shutdown? The…

Image via OzHouse Novelist, essayist, spiritual seeker, intellectual, humanist, and advocate for careful experimentation with psychedelic drugs. Aldous Huxley loved California. He enjoyed the open-mindedness,…

Marshall McLuhan explaining how the “one-liner” is symptomatic of the shortened attention-span of children. It’s all to do with television, which McLuhan claims, has a…

Former DM contributor, Jason Louv, editor of the cult classics Generation Hex and Thee Psychick Bible, writes: Today I’m proud to announce a new ebook,…