Alcohol: A Spirited Defence
The Return of the Temperance Movement.
6 min readJun 7, 2022
Alcohol is having a tough time of it lately, finding itself on the wrong side of the mental wellbeing mantra of our times.
The “Healthy Body, Healthy Mind” movement prefers its beverages 0.0%. It is hard to be our authentic self, it is said, if we’ve addled our mind with gin martini.
What started as an expression of personal preference has become part of a much broader question about how life ought to be lived.
