According to most histories, lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) is a pharmaceutical whose therapeutic potential was dashed by controversies concerning countercultural drug use and covert government research. In contrast to familiar accounts of a rapid government crackdown on the drug, Matthew Oram’s The Trials of Psychedelic Therapy: LSD Psychotherapy in America describes the conclusion of...
Hippies don’t necessarily make good Marxists, and Marxists are certainly not always hippies. As Patrick Barr-Melej’s wonderfully lively and illuminating cultural history of Chile during the late 1960s and early 1970s makes clear, the ideals and aesthetics of the “Age of Aquarius” often collided with those of the “Age of Allende.” Psychedelic Chile: Youth, Counterculture, and Politics on the...