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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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Psychology

Why We Join Cults

April 26, 2019
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Ewan Morrison

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

January 29, 2018
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James A. Lindsay

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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Cults

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Why We Join Cults

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

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