Jane Borden ✨
@janeborden.bsky.social
Author, journalist, editor. 📚 "Cults Like Us: Why Doomsday Thinking Drives America" (March 2025); "I Totally Meant to Do That." ✍🏼 Vanity Fair, Washington Post, NY Times Magazine. 🏠 LA & NYC.
Very honored to be long listed for the Carnegie Medal. Thank you, American Library Association. www.ala.org/news/2025/10...
October 23, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Very honored to be long listed for the Carnegie Medal. Thank you, American Library Association. www.ala.org/news/2025/10...
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▶️ NOW PLAYING: @janeborden.bsky.social is a writer for @vanityfair.com and her new book is called CULTS LIKE US: WHY DOOMSDAY THINKING DRIVES AMERICA, available from @atriabooks.bsky.social.
🎧 Available wherever you get your podcasts.
🎧 Available wherever you get your podcasts.
August 10, 2025 at 6:09 PM
▶️ NOW PLAYING: @janeborden.bsky.social is a writer for @vanityfair.com and her new book is called CULTS LIKE US: WHY DOOMSDAY THINKING DRIVES AMERICA, available from @atriabooks.bsky.social.
🎧 Available wherever you get your podcasts.
🎧 Available wherever you get your podcasts.
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Last night on TME, @janeborden.bsky.social joined @johnfugelsang.bsky.social to discuss her new book “Cults Like Us: Why Doomsday Thinking Drives America.”
🔊https://sxm.app.link/JohnFugelsang
🔊https://sxm.app.link/JohnFugelsang
July 11, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Last night on TME, @janeborden.bsky.social joined @johnfugelsang.bsky.social to discuss her new book “Cults Like Us: Why Doomsday Thinking Drives America.”
🔊https://sxm.app.link/JohnFugelsang
🔊https://sxm.app.link/JohnFugelsang
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Just started reading "Cults Like Us" by @janeborden.bsky.social and it's PHENOMENAL. I highly recommend this! If you want to know how we got here ... ALSO, would love to see Borden booked on some interview shows to share this information.
www.simonandschuster.com/books/Cults-...
www.simonandschuster.com/books/Cults-...
Cults Like Us
An “engrossing, unputdownable” (Amanda Montell, New York Times bestselling author) pop history that explains why the eccentric doomsday beliefs of ...
www.simonandschuster.com
June 21, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Just started reading "Cults Like Us" by @janeborden.bsky.social and it's PHENOMENAL. I highly recommend this! If you want to know how we got here ... ALSO, would love to see Borden booked on some interview shows to share this information.
www.simonandschuster.com/books/Cults-...
www.simonandschuster.com/books/Cults-...
It finally arrived! My intro to the comic side of @kibblesmith.com's brain. 🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻
May 30, 2025 at 4:15 PM
It finally arrived! My intro to the comic side of @kibblesmith.com's brain. 🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻
Thanks @salonnewsroom.bsky.social for your interest. www.salon.com/2025/05/26/h...
How America got so weird: The Pilgrims made us do it
Those guys who landed at Plymouth Rock were a doomsday cult, says Jane Borden — and we've emulated them ever since
www.salon.com
May 28, 2025 at 1:21 AM
Thanks @salonnewsroom.bsky.social for your interest. www.salon.com/2025/05/26/h...
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Looking forward to checking out Cults Like Us for summer break reading after hearing @janeborden.bsky.social on @bullseye.maximumfun.org pod this morning podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b...
Author Jane Borden on 'Cults Like Us'
Podcast Episode · Bullseye with Jesse Thorn · 05/23/2025 · 48m
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May 25, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Looking forward to checking out Cults Like Us for summer break reading after hearing @janeborden.bsky.social on @bullseye.maximumfun.org pod this morning podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b...
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From day one. CULTS LIKE US by @janeborden.bsky.social on sale now. bookshop.org/p/books/cult...
May 19, 2025 at 8:07 PM
From day one. CULTS LIKE US by @janeborden.bsky.social on sale now. bookshop.org/p/books/cult...
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Did American culture start as a doomsday cult?
@janeborden.bsky.social tells us how tracing modern political division led her back to the Puritans and their apocalyptic, black & white worldview that still echoes today.
Watch the full episode here: youtu.be/lbuaCVb06mg
@janeborden.bsky.social tells us how tracing modern political division led her back to the Puritans and their apocalyptic, black & white worldview that still echoes today.
Watch the full episode here: youtu.be/lbuaCVb06mg
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May 19, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Did American culture start as a doomsday cult?
@janeborden.bsky.social tells us how tracing modern political division led her back to the Puritans and their apocalyptic, black & white worldview that still echoes today.
Watch the full episode here: youtu.be/lbuaCVb06mg
@janeborden.bsky.social tells us how tracing modern political division led her back to the Puritans and their apocalyptic, black & white worldview that still echoes today.
Watch the full episode here: youtu.be/lbuaCVb06mg
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Sitting in for @zerlinamaxwell.bsky.social on @siriusxmprog.bsky.social this May Day morning! Chatting with Mariel Padilla from @19thnews.org, @janeborden.bsky.social about her book on cults, and rounding out the show with @davidpakman.bsky.social. Channel 127!
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www.siriusxm.com/channels/sir...
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Progressive talk with Michelangelo Signorile, Dean Obeidallah, Stephanie Miller, Zerlina Maxwell, and more.
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May 1, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Sitting in for @zerlinamaxwell.bsky.social on @siriusxmprog.bsky.social this May Day morning! Chatting with Mariel Padilla from @19thnews.org, @janeborden.bsky.social about her book on cults, and rounding out the show with @davidpakman.bsky.social. Channel 127!
www.siriusxm.com/channels/sir...
www.siriusxm.com/channels/sir...
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Sharp essay from @janeborden.bsky.social, author of the forthcoming "Cults Like Us"
"Donald Trump’s America Echoes Our Puritan Past"
www.vanityfair.com/news/story/d...
"Donald Trump’s America Echoes Our Puritan Past"
www.vanityfair.com/news/story/d...
Donald Trump’s America Echoes Our Puritan Past
Us-versus-them thinking. High-control habits. An obsession with punishment. Some aspects of the MAGA movement are a lot older than you might think.
www.vanityfair.com
March 21, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Sharp essay from @janeborden.bsky.social, author of the forthcoming "Cults Like Us"
"Donald Trump’s America Echoes Our Puritan Past"
www.vanityfair.com/news/story/d...
"Donald Trump’s America Echoes Our Puritan Past"
www.vanityfair.com/news/story/d...
👀 CULTS LIKE US✨ Avail for pre-order!
Puritan doomsday belief never went away; it became American culture. From our fascination with superheroes to our allegiance to self-help, susceptibility to advertising, and devotion to self-made men, Americans comprise the largest cult of all.
a.co/d/g3AQhOW
Puritan doomsday belief never went away; it became American culture. From our fascination with superheroes to our allegiance to self-help, susceptibility to advertising, and devotion to self-made men, Americans comprise the largest cult of all.
a.co/d/g3AQhOW
January 3, 2025 at 11:32 PM
👀 CULTS LIKE US✨ Avail for pre-order!
Puritan doomsday belief never went away; it became American culture. From our fascination with superheroes to our allegiance to self-help, susceptibility to advertising, and devotion to self-made men, Americans comprise the largest cult of all.
a.co/d/g3AQhOW
Puritan doomsday belief never went away; it became American culture. From our fascination with superheroes to our allegiance to self-help, susceptibility to advertising, and devotion to self-made men, Americans comprise the largest cult of all.
a.co/d/g3AQhOW