The Reasons To Be Cheerful Issue (Summer 2025)

Our contrarian response to a world that seems to hate itself, our summer 2025 issue bursts at the seams with things to keep your chin up in the face of climate collapse, mass unemployment, political turmoil, war, AI zealotry, death spiral capitalism and the untrammelled influence of the wealth extractor class, a youth glue-sniffing epidemic, people wearing bad clothes, etc, etc, etc

Rejoice, because… • There’s a new, improved version of ecstasy • We can nuke the earth and save the planet (maybe) • Gen Z love sex, actually • The last strip club in Miami Beach is keeping things legit • Dean Kissick wrote us a cheerful letter from Shanghai • Scientists have come up with a universal definition of true love • Squat rave kids are sti

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