"civilization"

Michael Pollan laughs and says, yes, he's on drugs while conducting this interview. Okay, he doesn't use those exact words, but he acknowledges that he has a "tall, takeout container" of half-caff coffee at his side as we discuss, via phone, his latest project, simply titled "Caffeine," available only as an audio book from Audible.

Re: “Civilisation can survive killers, but not traitors within” and “Perhaps a little Buddhist restraint is in order”, Have Your Say, December 14.

Re: “The annihilation of Western civilisation”, May 22.