Dominic Green’s review of “Tripping on Utopia” by Benjamin Breen (Books, Feb. 10) goes beyond even the book in his claims about the lives and work of Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson. As directors of ...
"The schizophrenic has ‘learned’ to ‘live in a universe where the sequences of events are such that his unconventional communication habits will be in some sense appropriate’. His ‘disorder’ is part ...
Benjamin Breen, a young historian at UC Santa Cruz, has written a gripping new book that tells a remarkable story. “Tripping on Utopia: Margaret Mead, the Cold War, and the Troubled Birth of ...