(CNN) — Steven Hassan was a college junior in the mid-1970s when he was recruited into the Unification Church, a cult also known as the "Moonies." Hassan said he quickly came to believe that ...

In Orwell's novel, members of the Ingsoc party must accept paradoxical slogans such as "war is peace". Source: Joel Frohlich (created with Midjourney) This post is an adapted except from my Substack ...

From Communist reeducation camps to manipulative media algorithms, mind control is a real and often remarkably effective tool, contends historian Lemov (World as Laboratory) in this trenchant study.

This post is Part 1 of a series on thought control. We are bombarded daily with others trying to influence our beliefs and behaviors. This could be your child trying to convince you that she can wear ...