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Political Cults, Leadership, Idealism, and Totalism: A Discussion with Dennis Tourish Ph.D.

Political Cults, Leadership, Idealism, and Totalism: A Discussion with Dennis Tourish Ph.D.

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Apr 04, 2019
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On January 18, 2019, during the longest government shutdown in history, I had the pleasure of interviewing Professor Dennis Tourish. He is a former member of a left-wing political group, having left in the mid-1980s. It was during this period that he found my book Combating Cult Mind Control which was the first time he had “read anything about this phenomenon and it just lifted the lights wonderfully.”

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