cult

A revamped vampire tale: The Lost Boys, one of the 1980s’ campiest cult classics, just got adapted into a Broadway musical.

From Slate ● Jul. 9, 2026

But “Gail Daughtry” is less about sex and personal empowerment than the cult of celebrity.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2026

People often compare it to a family, but it’s also a little like a cult.

From Salon ● Jul. 5, 2026

But what he also wants to confront are the elements of alienation that made the show—about an ex-spy in Kafkaesque confinement—a cult hit and a profile of postwar psychology.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 30, 2026

The leader of the cult was Pythagoras, an ancient radical.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife

But as with most cults, it is very secretive, and Swaine ran up against a brick wall — until he found a whistleblower who had a cache of documents.

From Salon ● Jun. 25, 2026

In other words, cults are as American as McDonald’s apple pie.

From Salon ● Jun. 25, 2026

Since Niyazov's death in 2006, successive presidents -- Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov and his son Serdar -- have kept the system in place, along with the cults of personality and grand architecture.

From Barron's ● Jun. 23, 2026

Richards, who now helps people exit cults, is open about what his former beloved leader did but also takes responsibility for his own behavior.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 9, 2026

Such a notion is familiar to us from the cults of earth deities of later times; its origin perhaps goes back to the Old Stone Age.

From "History of Art, Volume 1" by H.W. Janson