Review of Jesse Walker, The United States of Paranoia: A Conspiracy Theory. HarperCollins, 2013. Conspiracy theories make me nervous. I've been the star attraction in too many of them. Not me personally, you understand. But as a Jew, I periodically emerge as an ex officio plotter against … [Read more...]
Archives for 2013
“Outtakes of a UFO Investigator” – The Story Concluded
“Barney Hill, the black man who joined together that which custom had strictly divided, died on February 25, 1969. He died without knowing that his harrowing experience, of helpless and terrified captivity in the dead and deathly hours of the night, had buried itself like some alien seed in the … [Read more...]
Madonna’s Kabbalist – Philip Berg and the Kabbalah Centre (Part 2)
(Continuing my blog post from last week.) My first encounter with Philip Berg's Kabbalah Centre wasn't in Los Angeles, to which the organization's headquarters eventually migrated. It was in a subway station in New York City. It was hot there, and noisy; and a pretty young Israeli woman was … [Read more...]
Madonna’s Kabbalist – Philip Berg and the Kabbalah Centre (Part 1)
It's thanks to an email forwarded by my friend Boaz Huss that I heard the news: Philip Berg died this past Monday, September 16. He was 84, or possibly 86, depending on who you want to believe. Who's Philip Berg? you may say. Or, if you know and despise Philip Berg and most of what he stood … [Read more...]
Conan Doyle vs. Sherlock Holmes – The Magician and the Believer
They say villains are always more interesting than heroes. They say it’s much more fun to read about scoundrels than straight-arrows, and that unflinching rectitude is an unendurable bore. “They” must not have looked at any of the Sherlock Holmes stories lately. Or heard anything about Holmes’ … [Read more...]
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