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YOU OLD BAT! My grandmother’s apartment in the Ansonia Hotel was a wild place but in the worst way. The fights between my mother and grandmother were as volatile as the fights my mother had with my father before he left. When my mother came home from work, I’d feel her rage outside the door. Here it comes, I thought, [...]
"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 [...]
