The idea of a “cult of personality” is a long-standing concept of authoritarian rule that has existed since the time of the Roman emperors in antiquity. In modern history, the term became popular ...

Placing personality at the centre of politics is not new in India. Supporters of Indira Gandhi, an autocratic prime minister, ...

Today’s Republican Party and the “conservative” movement belong to Donald Trump. They are an extension of his mind, character, emotions, personality, desires, and impulses. This means that Trump’s ...

Father Figure: Don Diego Zapata, Emiliano's son, beneath a statue of the revolutionary forebear. Cuautla, Morelos — “We walk with history, but we will not repeat it.” Emiliano Zapata, the symbolic ...

Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.) condemned members of his own party for embracing a “cult of personality” around Hungary’s authoritarian leader Viktor Orbán Wednesday on the Senate floor ...

For nearly a decade, the left has described Donald Trump and his populist movement as a cult, in which the MAGA hordes grovel before their messianic former president. It’s not necessarily an ...

With hit documentaries like “Love Has Won” and “Escaping Twin Flames” and podcasts like “Let’s Talk About Sects” and “Escaping NXIVM,” it’s clear the public fascination with all things cult is alive ...

The movie is another old-fashioned whodunnit, but it stands alone as a far more dramatic, personal tale that will stick with ...

A valuable new biography of Aimee Semple McPherson. Several years ago, I spent an afternoon on tour with my church as we retraced the life of Sister Aimee Semple McPherson. Normally, I am very ...

Earlier this year, I had the opportunity to attend the world premiere of Opus at the Sundance Film Festival. I arrived at the premiere over an hour early and still ended up halfway down a line that ...