Open My Mind
DRUGS: Set against Switzerland’s unusually progressive therapeutic framework, a personal account of psychedelic treatment unfolds as both self-exposure and self-repair.
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Pragmatism and repressive politics
TURKEY: This autumn, we met two intellectuals in Istanbul about today’s Turkey – and attended a major conference there on political economy. Here, we look at the use of power, freedom of expression, the media, militarisation and President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s political pragmatism.
The State of Abolition During Late-Stage Capitalism
ACTIVISM: Angela Y. Davis’s essays and speeches on abolition, feminism, and the fight for collective liberation.
The law and the lost
IMMIGRATION: Borders are all in the mind, Loretta van Horst’s powerful film about US border patrol officers trying to stop people smuggling from Mexico, The Border Crossed Us, shows.
Two Tel Aviv schools in deep conflict
ISRAEL: A new Tel Aviv school brings together diverse students but displaces a religious school as it faces gentrification and integration challenges.
The price of freedom
BIOGRAPHY: Growing up in the bohemian community at Hydra with Leonard Cohen as a stepfather, Little Axel tells a story of neglect and an overload of freedom.
The drug dealers in suits and coats
DRUGS: From Big Pharma to Big Government, Alex Gibney explores the causes of the American opioid epidemic.
Towards a paradigm shift in Norwegian drug policy
DRUGS: Perhaps it is the opponents of Norways’s drug reform who should watch The Winds of Change, which follows three activists from the Association for Humane Drug Policy.