Addiction Is the Disease of Desire

by Michael W. Clune

The drug problem is a health crisis, but it is even more a spiritual crisis. To confront it, we need to recover an ancient truth about desire: I am not what I want. Continue Reading »

29 Jun 2023

Conservatives Don't Get the Porn Crisis

by H. A. Hazony

Internet pornography is nothing like the naughty magazines of our grandfathers. The problem with pornography consumption today is not that it is a sexual vice, but that it is an addiction. Continue Reading »

26 Jun 2023

The Mind of an Addict

by Mark Bauerlein

Michael W. Clune joins the podcast to discuss his memoir on drug addiction and recovery, White Out: The Secret Life of Heroin.  Continue Reading »

3 May 2023

Reefer Sadness

by Peter Hitchens

Tell Your Children:  The Truth About Marijuana, Mental Illness, and Violence by alex berenson free press, 272 pages, $26 The smoking of marijuana, with its careful preparation of the elements and the solemn passing around of the shared joint, was the unholy communion of the counterculture . . . . Continue Reading »

1 May 2019

Getting Out of God’s Way

by John Waters

The twelve steps of Alcoholics Anonymous disintegrate arrogance, clearing the way for Grace to enter. Continue Reading »

2 Aug 2018

American Carnage

by Christopher Caldwell

There have always been drug addicts in need of help, but the scale of the present wave of heroin and opioid abuse is . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Apr 2017

The Fantasy of Addiction

by Peter Hitchens

I never meant to start an argument about addiction. I had carried my private doubts on the subject around in my head for years, in the “heresy” section where I keep my really risky thoughts. And I don’t recommend disagreeing in public with Hollywood royalty, either, which is how it happened. . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Feb 2017

Porn Goes Mainstream

by Paul S. Loverde

Seven years into his addiction to online porn, John wrote to tell me of his struggles. His addiction began when he misspelled a word in an online search and was taken to a hardcore porn site.  Continue Reading »

13 Feb 2015

The Language of Addiction Takes Over

by Helen Andrews

There was a period, shortly before the Bolshevik Revolution, when the history of the Russian temperance movement became thoroughly intertwined with the history of Russian social reform in general. “The history of the Russian temperance movement” may sound like a world’s-shortest-book joke, . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Apr 2013

Trading Needles

by Bonnie Shullenberger

Bonnie Shullenberger considers courses of action in the fight against the AIDS . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Jan 1992