Tag Archives: Cults

Halloween, Elsa and the Index Simulacrorum Prohibitorum

Posted on October 28, 2017 by Andrew Stuttaford

Cross-posted on the Corner. Kyle has already discussed the controversy over Halloween Moana here, concluding as follows: The Left used to insist on seeing people as individuals, not as members of groups. The goal used to be that kids of different … Continue reading →

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Lenin and “the Vibrations of Christ”

Posted on September 27, 2014 by Andrew Stuttaford

Radio Free Europe: “Leninland,” which was two years in the making, focuses on the massive, tomb-like Lenin Museum at the estate outside of Moscow where the Soviet founder spent his final days and died. The museum complex was built there … Continue reading →

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As We Await the End Times

Posted on April 19, 2014 by Andrew Stuttaford

Cross-posted on Ricochet. The art of writing a first paragraph is said to lie in the ability to draw the reader in. I would say that Lily Lynch’s remarkable new piece in The Balkanist passes that test very well indeed: … Continue reading →

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Chávez: Still With us?

Posted on August 25, 2013 by Andrew Stuttaford

Cross-posted on the Corner: The Financial Times reports: [Venezuelan president Maduras] campaigned on the basis that his predecessor spoke to him in the form of a little bird. Last week, he admitted that he regularly sleeps in the mausoleum where … Continue reading →

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Hikikomori, Literally

Posted on August 9, 2012 by Andrew Stuttaford

Via the Daily Telegraph: Seventy members of an Islamist sect who have been living in an underground bunker without heat or sunlight for nearly a decade have been discovered living on the outskirts of the city of Kazan in Russia. … Continue reading →

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Ismael & the Holy Thugs

Posted on October 2, 2011 by Andrew Stuttaford

From the Guardian, a reminder (as if one were needed) that religion will always be with us: In a country that wakes up every Monday morning to a dismal tally of weekend murders, it is no surprise that people have … Continue reading →

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Other Russian Cults

Posted on May 16, 2011 by Andrew Stuttaford

It’s not only Putin-as-Paul. The Daily Telegraph has the details of some other modern Russian cults (with Rasputin thrown in for historical flavor, although he was tamer than some). There are reportedly as many as 700 sects active in the … Continue reading →

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Paul into Putin

Posted on May 16, 2011 by Andrew Stuttaford

Via the Daily Telegraph: Vladimir Putin has become the object of veneration for a bizarre Russian all-female sect whose followers believe that the tough-talking prime minister is a reincarnation of the early Christian missionary Paul the Apostle. Members of the … Continue reading →

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Che!

Posted on August 21, 2010 by Andrew Stuttaford

The cult of Che Guevara (all those posters and tee-shirts, not to speak of the recent movie hagiography) is a persistent—and rather annoying—reminder of the way that the crimes of communism still rank oddly low in the popular imagination. But … Continue reading →

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