I was a chess prodigy trapped in a religious cult. It left me with years of fear and self-loathing

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When I first discovered chess, after watching the movie Searching for Bobby Fischer on HBO, I was a nine-year-old kid living in a tiny village in the mountains of Arizona. Because of its title, many people think the film is…[Continue Reading...]

Robert Jay Lifton, Psychiatrist Drawn to Humanity’s Horrors, Dies at 99

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Robert Jay Lifton, a psychiatrist who peered into some of the darkest corners of contemporary history, including Hiroshima, the Holocaust and the Vietnam War, in search of lessons about individual and collective consciousness, died on Thursday at his home in…[Continue Reading...]

Japan to keep restricting Aum Shinrikyo successor group’s activities

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The Public Security Examination Commission has decided to extend restrictions on the activities of Aleph, a successor group of the now-defunct Aum Shinrikyo doomsday cult, for another six months. The decision, made Wednesday, marks the sixth time the recurrence prevention…[Continue Reading...]

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