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Porkins Policy Radio episode 196 How to be a cult leader with Jon Atack and Sam Atack

This week Jon Atack and Sam Atack joined me to discuss their new videos series Think Like a Cult Leader. Jon and Sam described how their criteria for being a “successful cult leader” matches up with so many people currently in positions of power today. We also talked about Sam’s prank creation his own cult […]

Why the Devil Loves Democracy

Best known for his Chronicles of Narnia series, author C.S. Lewis's The Screwtape Letters is decidedly different. The demon Wormwood is working on a particular human, a man known just as "the patient." He seeks his uncle Screwtape's advice on how to tempt the man into sin and ultimately lose his soul to "our Father below." Screwtape's tips for destroying the morality of humanity are much more subtle than you'd expect, and they sound surprisingly like Ayn Rand.