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Apocalypse No: Why I No Longer Believe in the End of the World

My family was big on apocalypse. My Calvinist grandmother and my anti-nuclear father were both convinced, in different ways, that the end was nigh. For my father and me, this…

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Politics

COVID-19 Should Alert Us to the Dangers of Apocalyptic Ideas

Image by Pete Linforth Let’s face it: some people are probably excited about COVID-19. I can envision some preppers happily telling their acquaintances, I told you so, as they stockpile…

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11 min

Culture & Media

Towards a Radical Hope: A Review of “Unfollow” by Megan Phelps-Roper

Reading Megan Phelps-Roper’s account of living in and leaving the infamous Westboro Baptist Church, I kept thinking about Kurt Wise. Wise is a young-earth creationist, but he’s no fool. He…

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19 min

Psychology

Why We Join Cults

At the start of April, we were shocked to discover the details of the NXIVM cult—an organisation which “brainwashed and blackmailed women into being sex slaves.” The female members of…

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27 min

Features

The Guru Appeal of Jordan Peterson in our Post-Everything World

He reaches to people, mostly young men and their sympathizers, with sweeping cultural narratives about masculinity and femininity that seem to explain their crappy lot while offering them a means for redemptive action.

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Apocalypse No: Why I No Longer Believe in the End of the World

COVID-19 Should Alert Us to the Dangers of Apocalyptic Ideas

Towards a Radical Hope: A Review of “Unfollow” by Megan Phelps-Roper

Why We Join Cults

The Guru Appeal of Jordan Peterson in our Post-Everything World

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