Dr. Faust Sold His Soul, But Got a Better Deal than Psychopharmacology Offered.
The Sacklers bought our Soul for A Free Pen and Lunch for the Staff
The story of Dr. Faust is a familiar one to me. I was (academically) under the thrall of the terrible deals the devil seemed to routinely get buyers to agree to during my time at Amherst. I scored a production of Stein’s post-modern take—Dr. Faustus Lights the Lights—in my 2nd year. In my junior year, I built an independent study course on hell and t…
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