The beliefs of the Gnostics, an all-but-forgotten 2nd Century Christian sect, might not seem to have much relevance to the modern world – especially the imagined futures of some of our favorite ...

What do Harry Potter, the Star Wars series, The Matrix, Masonry, New Age and the Raelian cult, which claims to have cloned the first baby, have in common? Their ideological soil. Identical esoteric ...

From the moment that Karen L. King entered Brown University’s graduate program in religion, in the 1970s, she wanted to study Gnosticism. She was one of several religious-studies students of that era ...

Father Alfonso Aguilar's essays “Gnosticism and the Struggle for the World's Soul" and “Into the Gnostic Wonderland" (March 30-April 5 and April 6-12) were excellent and entirely correct. I believe he ...

On your lecture tour of the UK, what was the best question anyone asked you? Bob Hardy at Mono cafe in Glasgow I've just finished a series of lectures in the UK and Milan on topics including Gender ...

Is Big Brother Watching You? The Business ‘Cycle’ Is a Bust A Rollicking Primer on the U.S. Supreme Court The Long Memory of the Law Remembering the Originalist in Chief The conspiratorial belief that ...