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From the editor: We are excited to publish an excerpt from Baye McNeils’ new memoir, You Couldn’t Tell Me Shit! Coming of Age in the County of Kings, 1980-1985 about growing up in Crown Heights, Brooklyn. Baye’s book, a serialized memoir available on his Substack is accompanied by photographs from the period by the legendary Jamel Shabazz The Mish [...]
"Perhaps @Icegov should go check this corner out." That’s how social media influencer and Turning Point USA contributor Savanah Hernandez captioned her October 19, 2025, video on X showing West African vendors selling counterfeit goods on Canal Street. The video has been viewed 5.1 million times. Several days after it went online, ICE agents raided the area and arrested nine [...]
This excerpt from John O'Connor's new book, A Short, Strange Trip: An Untold Story of Magic Mushrooms, Madness, and a Search for the Meaning of Life in the Amazon (pub date April 14, 2026), explores the peripatetic ways of both the author and his subject, the late American mystic and "psychonaut," Terence Mckenna (1946-2000). McKenna, a countercultural figure in the 1970s who [...]
