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Inside the Secret Club of Illegal Moonshine
With big liquor continuing its expansion into moonshine, illegal 'stillers keep quiet, keep producing, and remember where the real recipe came from. By Justin Kirkland. (Dec 19, 2017)
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Ku Klux Klambakes
Adam Hochschild reviews “The Second Coming of the KKK: The Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s and the American Political Tradition” by Linda Gordon and “Ku Klux Kulture: America and the Klan in the 1920s” by Felix Harcourt.
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The Ancient Roman Cult That Continues to Vex Scholars
The Mithraic Mysteries worshipped a pagan god from subterranean temples buried throughout the empire. By Kerry Wolfe.
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Can We Blame the Mafia on Lemons?
Economists and historians are connecting the early rise of organized crime with Sicily’s citrus trade. By Cara Giaimo.
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Meet the secret society that infiltrated Denver’s Ku Klux Klan during the height of its power
Dr. Joseph H.P. Westbrook was an early civil rights leader in Denver who was able to pass undetected at Klan meetings. By Kevin Beaty.
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Steve Bannon and the occult: The right wing’s long, strange love affair with New Age mysticism
If you think New Age alternative spirituality is solely the domain of lefty hippies, you don’t know your history. By Mitch Horowitz.
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Why I’m Leaving My Job at the Illuminati and Joining the Trump Administration
Friends: When I first joined the Illuminati, I thought I’d work here forever... By Jason O. Gilbert.
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Occult Americans
It’s Impossible to Separate Strangeness from American History — And That’s a Good Thing to Remember on Occult Day. By Mitch Horowitz.
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Meet the Man Who Started the Illuminati
How did a Bavarian professor end up creating a group that would be at the center of two centuries of conspiracy theories? By Isabel Hernández.
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Reimagining a Shadowy Medieval Brotherhood That Probably Didn’t Exist
The Rosicrucians began as a myth, or maybe a hoax, but they changed the way that people thought. By Peter Bebergal.
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How British anti-racist group infiltrated the Ku Klux Klan
Investigation by Hope Not Hate finds police officers among members of Loyal White Knights, names of expelled ‘race traitors’ and links to violence. By Mark Townsend.
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7 Not-So-Secret Homes of Super Secret Societies
The clandestine corners of the world where the occult lives. By Cynthia Pelayo.
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The Calcutta Pococurante Society: Public and Private in India’s Age of Reform
Joshua Ehrlich on an obscure text found on the shelves of a Bengali library and the light it sheds on the idea of the public in 19th-century Calcutta.
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The Donald Trump of the 1840s
A tide of anti-immigrant rage among working-class voters. Dire warnings that the America we know and love is on the verge of extinction. One charismatic leader rides the wave of righteous anger. Sound familiar? By Brendan Spiegel.
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Strange magic: The story behind Auckland’s Temple of Higher Thought
As an icon of Kiwi occultism goes up for sale, Greg Roughan delves into the bizarre history behind Auckland’s Temple of Higher Thought – and its links with Havelock North’s strangest secret. By Greg Roughan.
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Saint Sulpice and the Symbolism of the Priory of Sion
What if some of the most haunting symbolism of the twentieth century was the invention of a shadowy figure who pirated innocuous images from a famous church in order to construct the mythos of a secret society? By Andrew Gough.
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Inside Scalia's Very, Very Weird Secret Hunting Club
When late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia died at a Texas ranch two weeks ago, he was without the customary security detail the U.S. Marshals typically provide for such elites. Why, you ask? Because he was hunkered down with a highly secretive and enigmatic fraternity full of crazy expensive guns, ceremonial daggers, and powerful people. Wednesday night, the Washington Post broke the news that Scalia was joined at the ranch by members...
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Justice Scalia spent his last hours with members of this secretive society of elite hunters
The group is called the International Order of St. Hubertus, an exclusive all-male group dating back to the 1600s. By Amy Brittain and Sari Horwitz.
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America’s Secret Societies: A New Book Probes Their Art and Mysteries
What is more titillating — knowing that someone is guarding a delicious secret you might never be invited to share, or being charged with protecting some precious confidence of your own? By Edward M. Gómez.
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How the Klan Got Its Hood
Members of the Ku Klux Klan did not wear their distinctive white uniform until Hollywood—and a mail-order catalog—intervened. By Alison Kinney.
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