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Podcast: Peculiar Book Club Podcast
Episode: You'll love the Kool-Aid with Jane Borden and Cults Like Us
Description: Since the Mayflower sidled up to Plymouth Rock, cult ideology has been ingrained in the DNA of the United States. It turns out that Puritan doomsday belief never went away; it just went secular and became American culture. From our fascination with cowboys and superheroes to our allegiance to influencers and self-help, susceptibility to advertising, and undying devotion to the self-made man, Americans remain particularly vulnerable to a specific brand of cult-like thinking.With in-depth research and compelling insight, journalist Jane Borden uncovers the American history you didn’t learn in school, including how we are still being brainwashed, ma...