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The FBI, COINTELPRO, and the Marxist Right

The message could not have been any clearer: “Socialism,” the letter read, “can be achieved through education, political activity and through allying ourselves with the major people’s struggles of these times and in this country.” [1] Keep Reading

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America, a Shared Madness

American English is clumsy, lacking in grace and subtlety. It’s very good at expressing stupid ideas, trivial things, but not so much at conveying complex thoughts or emotions. Keep Reading

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Exorcism in America: A Social History of Diabolical Possessions

During a 2002 pilgrimage to the Rila Monastery in Bulgaria, Pope John Paul II spoke to a crowd of congregants of a crisis of faith among Christians, stating: “Spiritual combat … needs to be taught anew and proposed once more … It is a secret and interior art, an invisible struggle in which monks engage… Keep Reading

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Satanism and Crime in 1990s Philadelphia

By May 1992, Philadelphia was in the grips of a decade-long nightmare. It seemed like the city was under constant attack no matter where you turned. In 1985, a long-simmering dispute between the city and black liberation group MOVE came to a head when the Philadelphia Police Department dropped two one-pound bombs on MOVE’s West… Keep Reading

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