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Jane Borden: Cults and the American Monomyth
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What if the United States wasn’t just influenced by cult-like thinking, but shaped by it from the very beginning?
This week on Simplify, Caitlin Schiller speaks with journalist and author Jane Borden, whose book Cults Like Us: Why Doomsday Thinking Drives America explores how cult dynamics show up across U.S. history, politics, consumer culture, and self-help. From Puritan theology to superhero…