The Number of the Best

The Number of the Best

Even Ronald Reagan changed his address from 666 to 668. This is pretty impressive given how much AIDS activists know Reagan hated acknowledging numbers.

Nothing New Under the Dumb

Nothing New Under the Dumb

“Belief in Satan is a very old conspiracy theory,” folklorist Bill Ellis says. There is no “new Satanic Panic”: The panic was old when religion was young.

The Faust Effect

The Faust Effect

Historically, Satanic media like “Faustus” framed itself as moralizing, making it “okay” for people to read scandalous things. But who were they fooling?