Trump’s America: Where Ignorance Is A Virtue & Knowledge Is An Enemy In 1965, straight out of high school, I wasn’t very “political” but...

Dumbing Down The Sunshine State I had a great time at college (Stony Brook). I was the freshman class president and booked The Fugs for...

An old friend from Stony Brook, Brian Baxter, is working on an art project and a couple of days ago he asked me if I could remember all...

When I was a kid, there was a widespread rumor that LSD caused genetic damage. Many of us believed it might be true— and we didn’t have...

Back on August 1, I published a page, Me And Tim Leary, from the work I’m doing on my memoir. But a few days ago I was looking for a book...

I loved Mrs Couey. We didn’t have “Ms” yet back then. She was my faculty advisor when I was chairman of the Student Activities Board. I...

The first time I met Timothy Leary, it didn’t count. I didn’t know who he was. I was just a high school kid— between sophomore and junior...

During the summer between graduating James Madison High School and going SUNY, Stony Brook, I worked on the mayoral campaign of Upper...

A scholar is writing a book about Long Island culture in the 1960s and he called me a few times for long chats. He followed one of the...