A New Door
This is the wrong question for African American Bennington alumni.
An excerpt from the introduction to Michael Pollan's bestselling book, How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence.
In my first term at Bennington, my mother died. I didn’t know it then but that was the beginning of my spiritual journey.
When I returned to teaching 10 years ago, well past retirement age, I never dreamed I would have to explain to college students...
I once thought it impossible that our democracy would fail. I now believe failure is not only possible, but happening.
I was a graduate student at the University of Pennsylvania in the 1970s when I became curious about everyday storytelling...
As the biographer of Amelia Earhart, I had concluded that her plane would never be found in my lifetime.