Who’s to blame for the Rise & Fall of the Onedia Community?

This week, The Alarmist (Rebecca Delgado Smith) welcomes back writer Jane Borden, author of Cults Like Us: Why Doomsday Thinking Drives America, to discuss the rise and fall of the Oneida Community. It’s highly likely you’ve eaten a meal with a set of Oneida silverware. But, are you familiar with their cult origins and problematic sex practices like “Sticky Love” or “Complex Marriage?” Were cults like these, which were very popular at this particular moment in history, a result of the industrial revolution and its billionaire class or an echo of our puritanical origins as a country? Fact Checker Chris Smith and Producer Clayton Early join the conversation.

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