Harvard historian Rebecca Lemov on the history of brainwashing and its implications today. Radiolab is an award-winning podcast that explores the edge where science, philosophy and human experience ...

U.S. marshals escort Patricia Hearst from the Federal Building in San Francisco on Feb. 3, 1976, during jury selection in her bank robbery trial. Her lawyers argued that her kidnappers brainwashed her ...

Brainwashing is often viewed as a Cold War relic—think '60s films like "The Manchurian Candidate" and "The IPCRESS File." But Rebecca Lemov, professor of the history of science, argues in her recently ...

The term “Stockholm syndrome” comes from a 1973 bank heist that started out perfectly normally. An experienced robber named Jan-Erik Olsson entered Kreditbanken in Norrmalmstorg square, Stockholm, ...

In Orwell's novel, members of the Ingsoc party must accept paradoxical slogans such as "war is peace". Source: Joel Frohlich (created with Midjourney) This post is an adapted except from my Substack ...

In 1937, the longtime Bolshevik leader Georgy Pyatakov was tried in Moscow for treason, sabotage and other alleged crimes against the Soviet Union. He gave a false confession, declaring: ‘Here I stand ...