The spectator: Our need to get drunk in company may be innate

“Edward Slingerland’s Drunk is self-consciously ‘haunted’ by that Lancet study — ‘the terrible document that concluded definitively that the only safe level of alcohol consumption was zero’. Slingerland aims to tell a vindicatory story about intoxication, its adaptive value for societies and individuals, and its continued indispensability to contemporary life.”

John Maier, “Our Need to Get Drunk In Company May Be Innate,” The Spectator, July 24, 2021