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Sovereign Skies: The Origins of American Civil Aviation Policy – Q&A with author Sean Seyer
What is new about Sovereign Skies that sets it apart from other books in the field?While this is not the first book to address the early development of civil aviation policy in the United States, it is the first to demonstrate the central role that...
Trials of Psychedelic Therapy
When I began exploring the history of LSD psychotherapy research in 2008, I had little idea that the momentum was in fact building on a new era of psychedelic research. In the 1950s and 60s, researchers reported impressive results using LSD in conjunction with...
Not an Environmental Problem but a Political One - Cleaning Up the Chesapeake Bay with Tom Pelton
The Chesapeake Bay as a Reflection of American Political Life By Tom Pelton As a journalist covering local government across different regions of the U.S. – in Virginia, Connecticut, Illinois, and Massachusetts – I witnessed a pattern that was disturbing to me...
Moralizing the Market
MORALIZING THE MARKET This book started as an inquiry into a very specific case of policy transfer from the United States to France in the late 1960s: prompted by the outrage generated by a spectacular insider trading scandal at the Paris Bourse, French policy...
