The Province: Alcohol’s role in communal connection, creativity gets a toast in UBC prof’s new book
“This enlightening and scientific book, which explains how alcohol has lubricated innovation and social trust through history, is a breath of unconventionality, and even risk-taking, in a North American society (and academia) that is increasingly fixating on puritanism, “safetyism” and orthodoxy of opinion.”
Douglas Todd, “Alcohol’s role in communal connection, creativity gets a toast in UBC prof’s new booke,” The Province, September 23, 2021
Handelsblatt: Alkohol im Arbeitsumfeld ist heute out – dabei war er historisch nicht unwichtig
“Wenn man heute ein Glas Wein in Anwesenheit von Geschäftspartnern ordern würde, würde man sich sofort dem Verdacht aussetzen, harter Alkoholiker zu sein”
Tillmann Prüfer, “Alkohol im Arbeitsumfeld ist heute out – dabei war er historisch nicht unwichtigtle,” Handelsblatt, September 18, 2021
Der Landbote: Weshalb wir uns öfter betrinken sollten
“Slingerlands Argument lautet, dass wir Trinken nicht als evolutionären Irrweg betrachten sollen, sondern als grundlegend für das Fortbestehen der menschlichen Zivilisation.”
Pascal Blum, “TiWeshalb wir uns öfter betrinken solltene,” Der Landbote, September 9, 2021
Berner zeitung: Weshalb wir uns öfter betrinken sollten
“Slingerlands Argument lautet, dass wir Trinken nicht als evolutionären Irrweg betrachten sollen, sondern als grundlegend für das Fortbestehen der menschlichen Zivilisation”
Pascal Blum, “Weshalb wir uns öfter betrinken sollten,” Berner Zeitung, September 19, 2021
Club Oenologique: Top summer reads for food and drink lovers
“Why do we drink alcohol? More to the point, why do we like to get drunk, or intoxicated if you prefer? It’s the question that sits at the heart of Edward Slingerland’s fascinating, engagingly written new book about our favourite drug.”
Tim Atkin et al., “Top summer reads for food and drink lovers,” Club Oenologique, August 15, 2021
Infobae: Edward Slingerland: “Embriagarse ayudó al hombre a construir la civilización”
“El filósofo estadounidense reconstruye en su libro la relación del hombre con el alcohol a través de la historia y su rol como facilitador de los vínculos sociales. Cuál es la principal diferencia en el tipo de consumo que creó los problemas de alcoholismo”
Samuel Losada Iriarte, “Edward Slingerland: 'Embriagarse ayudó al hombre a construir la civilización',” Infobae, August 15, 2021
الخمر صانع الإبداع الإسلامي :Raseef 22
“ليس من قبيل الصدفة، أن المنافسة القوية بين الجماعات الثقافية التي نشأت منها الحضارات، ارتبطت بالخمر والنبيذ، سواء في الإنتاج أو الاستهلاك، وسبب هذا الحضور كونها كانت الأداة الكيميائية التي سمحت للبشر بالتهرب من الحدود التي تفرضها طبيعتهم (الحيوانية)، وخلق مستويات اجتماعية تعاونية ساهمت في تسريع البناء الحضاري.”
عثمان أمكور, “الخمر صانع الإبداع الإسلامي,” Raseef 22, August 3, 2021
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
New york Post: Our bossy society is completely losing sight of the value of risky behavior
“When told that Gen. Ulysses Grant drank too much, President Abraham Lincoln is said to have inquired as to Grant’s choice of booze, so he could send some to his other generals. The anecdote captures the central argument of “Drunk,” Edward Slingerland’s new book on alcohol, policy and culture — and it offers lessons for all sorts of other regulatory efforts.”
Glenn H. Reynolds, “Our bossy society is completely losing sight of the value of risky behavior,” New York Post, July 1, 2021
UBC Trek: The taste for intoxicants
“We’re all familiar with the dark side of alcohol and yet, for all its negative effects, one thing has held true for thousands of years: humanity’s love for intoxicants.”
“The Taste for Intoxicants,” UBC Trek, June 22, 2021