Cults and Foodies
How Do The Pros Get You Out Of A Cult?
Nic M Neves | Guardian | 19th November 2025
By manipulating you until you think that leaving is your own idea. Essentially. There's a lot more to it than that, as this pair of world-leading "cult interventionists" explain in this interview. Their method is unorthodox, even in such a tiny field. They embed as friends of the cult member's family to build a rapport and orchestrate "chance" meetings with experts that change minds. It can take years (4,500 words)
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Who Was The Foodie?
Alicia Kennedy | Yale Review | 17th November 2025
For decades the word "foodie" had denoted "a person who doesn’t just eat but knows what farm the arugula came from and which chef in town has the hottest pedigree". Then food culture became aesthetic only: the default mode became documentation (often via social media) rather than experimentation with flavour. But what if "caring" about food also meant caring about who gets to eat enough? (2,800 words)