A while ago my girlfriend alerted me to a viral video in which a teenage girl named Gracie announces, “I don’t think math is real.” Some of the math she’s learning in school, Gracie suggests, has little to do with the world in which she lives. “I get addition, like, if I take two apples and add t

I’ve met too many acid heads who are assholes or fools or both to buy the idea that psychedelics can save us. I’m an old acid head myself. I cherish my trips, even the scary ones . Psychedelics have helped me see—really see —the weirdness of the world . But they have also estranged me from other