Jason Shiga
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On addiction, crime, Buddhism, and exorcism.
If we want people to heal, we shouldn’t keep them inside bleak boxes.
abuse, addiction, agency, Buddhism, child molesters, Demon, demons, drug dealers, exorcism, free will, gang murder, Harvard commencement, hurt people hurt people, I Will Find You, incarceration, J.K. Rowling, jail, Jason Shiga, Joanna Conners, liberation rite, mythology, nurture, parenting, penitence, poverty, prison, prison rape, Rowling, sex offenders, solitary, Tibetan mythology, trauma
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On Finn Murphy’s “The Long Haul” and our dying towns
U.S. economic inequality has caused much of the country to crumble … but the devastation won’t *stay* where it started.
A Trucker’s Tales of Life on the Road, addiction, ambulance fees, automation, Bloomington, capitalism, college town, drug addiction, drug use, drugs, Empire State, fentanyl, Finn Murphy, Flying J, free markets, government intervention, guaranteed basic income, heartless in the heartland, heroin, highways, homelessness, hospitalization, Indiana, inequality, Jason Shiga, marijuana, meth, meth labs, methamphetamine, opiates, overdose, poverty, property rights, public works program, Robert Reich, Saving Capitalism, seeing America, shooting up, spice, synthetic marijuana, The Long Haul, traveling by bus, unemployment, unhoused
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