Mitch Horowitz
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New York, NY, United States
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The Enduring Legacy of Parapsychologist J.B. Rhine
Skeptics deem Rhine’s famous ESP trials a bust. The record says otherwise. One of my intellectual heroes is parapsychologist J.B. Rhine (1895-1980), who pioneered ESP card experiments at Duke Unive… → Read More
Is Precognition Real?
Skeptics Eviscerated a Cornell Psychologist Whose Published Evidence Said Yes. A Decade Later, His Data Has Stood Up. More than ten years ago, a prominent research psychologist, Daryl J. Bem, publi… → Read More
The man who destroyed skepticism
Scourge of psychics James Randi was no skeptic; our culture is poorer as a result Several years ago I was preparing a talk on the life of occult journeyer Madame H.P. Blavatsky (1831–1891) for the Rubin Museum of Art in New York City. Someone on Facebook asked sardonically: “Will James Randi be there?” My interlocutor… → Read More
Why a Pinko New Ager Loves Ayn Rand –
The website Big Think recently ran a beautifully illustrated and fairly predictable assault on writer Ayn Rand on the grounds that she’s not a “serious” philosopher. I am not a follower of Rand’s… → Read More
Steve Bannon and the occult: The right wing’s long, strange love affair with New Age mysticism
Bannon's back in the news as the subject of a bestselling book. Here's one key to understanding what makes him tick VIDEO → Read More
The Illuminati rules?: Sorry, conspiracy theorists, but “secret societies” do not run the world
"Secret elites" are not America's problem. Looking to jury-rigged politics and voter apathy is more to the point → Read More
The last JFK assassination myth: Debunking the eerie prediction that won’t go away
Jeane Dixon's obits gave astrologer credit for prophesying JFK's death. Is that realer than the Warren Commission? → Read More
Secrets of Osama bin Laden’s library: The mystic, searching book now being misinterpreted as a conspiracy text
Manly P. Hall's book is in danger of joining "Helter Skelter" and "Catcher in the Rye." It doesn't deserve to → Read More
What? It's Friday the 13th Again?
This Friday we mark our second Friday the 13th of the year. If you feel like we just observed the dreaded day, you're not imagining things.... → Read More
13 Superstitions That Still Scare the Bejesus Out of Us
This week marks the arrival of the first Friday the 13th of 2015. For many of us, even the mention of this "unlucky day" brings a quiver of anxiety. We say it's hoo-hah, but a little voice in us whispers, "what if?..."... → Read More
How Oral Roberts Changed Religion
Televangelist Oral Roberts is often remembered as the founding father of the “prosperity gospel,” the doctrine that prayers and affirmations can deliver wealth. He is also remembered as a religious pitchman and gung-ho fundamentalist, tainted with greed and ignorance. But his full story is both more complicated and positive than that, and... → Read More
The 7 Biggest Myths About Positive Thinking (NEW BOOK)
Positive thinking is at once the most influential and maligned philosophy in American life. The positive-thinking outlook, which grew out of New England mental-healing experiments in the mid-nineteenth century, extols one key principle: thoughts are causative. → Read More
Ronald Reagan and the occultist: The amazing story of the thinker behind his sunny optimism
The Gipper's warm "morning in America" worldview was directly shaped by his reading of occult thinker Manly P. Hall → Read More
5 Simple Steps to a Better 2014
New Year's resolutions focus on mere symptoms — overeating, lateness — of our disconnection from ourselves and others. They are bound to fail. But this time-tested method — taken from the best traditions of self-help — can turn your 2014 into a genuinely more meaningful year for you in all a... → Read More