“We all have an idea of what constitutes a cult,” writes author Jane Borden in “Cults Like Us – Why Doomsday Thinking Drives America” (One Signal Publishers). “The word cult conjures a ...

There are the Black elites and then there are the rest of us. Ibram X. Kendi is one of them. Despite his middle class upbringing and current vast material wealth, he has made a living out of ...

The most famous cults in American history are embedded in our cultural imagination. We’re fascinated by how they start, what it is about their leaders that is so enigmatic, and whether ...

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Journalists, scholars, and political observers have spent years attempting to parse what animates the MAGA base. While no ...

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New book about the history of cult ideologies in America, and how the country remains a breeding ground for cult-like thinking. Culture journalist Jane Borden uncovers the American history you ...

And the truth? That’s something Jim Willis tries to uncover in “American Cults: Cabals, Corruption, and Charismatic Leaders.” And he begins by pointing out that religious zealotry is as ...

This cult discussion was a strange conversation ... I’d done well for a Norwegian American girl from South Dakota who could barely lead another in silent prayer. My parents thought our social ...

But that image couldn’t be further from the truth and in “Cults Like Us” Borden charts not just the murky history of cult ideologies in America, but how the country remains a breeding ground ...