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From the archives: Psychic Questing – The People of Hex and Gothic goings on

Lucy Fisher -
From the archives in 1992, journalist Lucy Fisher reports from the Psychic Questing Conference, on the new-age movement and its adherents
Extremism

Sacred Cloths? Flags, outrage, and the skeptical mindset

Gabriel Andrade -
It is a sad irony that many who rightly oppose blasphemy laws are often first to demand harsh penalties for the desecration of flags
Society

AI isn’t killing literature – it isn’t even close to replacing professional writers

James Machell -
While there were fears about a slop deluge flooding literature magazines, the truth is that AI lacks the inventiveness to rise above talented writers
Cults

No end of faith: how do religions survive a devastating truth bomb?

Tim Jokl -
The Mormons and Jehovah's Witnesses have shown that even seemingly devastating revelations leave only a dent in a well-organised religion
Politics

Religious extremism and refugees in Germany: lessons from Nigeria

Leo Igwe -
As a country beset by imported religious extremism from Islam and Christianity, Nigeria has many lessons to teach modern Europe
Moral Panics

The Online Safety Act doesn’t make our children any safer

Mike Hall -
The Online Safety Act may be well-intentioned, but it is a fundamentally flawed attempt to legislate away a complex social issue.
Cults

Looksmaxxing: the pseudoscientific aesthetic answer to young men’s problems

Marcus Yeo Jun Hao -
Online 'looksmaxxing' communities offer young men dramatic techniques to improve appearances, as quick fixes to deeper personal insecurities.
Climate Change

When the Great Resist conspiracy conference came to the North East

David Glass -
The Great Resist meeting, and its touring band of conspiracy theorists, brought their antivax rhetoric and trans-panic messaging to Gateshead
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