Drug-Fueled Creativity
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If the U.S. weren’t such an anti-intellectual society, perhaps instead of having a problem of high school athletes taking steroids (ostensibly to become like their favorite stars in the MLB or the NFL), we would have a serious drug problem among ambitious students aping their favorite literary heroes (e.g., Auden, Kerouac, Sartre) and living on a steady diet of concentration-enhancing amphetamines. Joshua Foer, the brother of the novelist Jonathan, volunteered as a guinea pig for Adderall ... (more)
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