Ben Gore
Ben Gore is a novelist and essayist who is between homes. He is currently at work on a book about bicycles and their meaning.
Technocrats of the Mind
By Ben GoreOn June 17, 1971, four days after the New York Times began publishing the Pentagon Papers, Richard Nixon declared that “America’s Public Enemy No. 1 in the United States is drug abuse,” inaugurating the War on Drugs.
Fiction: The Lone Ranger and Don Quixote Joust
By Ben GoreA cowboy hero, lost in the modern world of the 1950s, turns outlaw and escapes a massive, high-tech posse only to be flattened by a tractor trailer hauling toilets, emblazoned with the nihilistic slogan “America Builds For . . .”
Nonfiction: The Taxonomy of Melancholy
By Ben GoreHorowitz and Wakefield trace the diagnosis of depression, and its distinction from sadness, back as far as Hippocrates, through Robert Burton, and on to the modern day.
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