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Mitch Horowitz is the PEN Award-winning author of books including "Occult America" and "One Simple Idea: How Positive Thinking Reshaped Modern Life." Follow him @MitchHorowitz.

Ronald Reagan; Steve Bannon (AP/Getty/Saul Loeb/Shutterstock/Salon)

Steve Bannon and the occult: The right wing’s long, strange love affair with New Age mysticism

Mitch Horowitz

Ronald Reagan; Steve Bannon (AP/Getty/Saul Loeb/Shutterstock/Salon)

Steve Bannon and the occult: The right wing’s long, strange love affair with New Age mysticism

Mitch Horowitz

David Lynch (Getty/Kevin Winter)

David Lynch in conversation: “It’s ignorance that keeps us in that boat of suffering”

Mitch Horowitz

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The Illuminati rules?: Sorry, conspiracy theorists, but “secret societies” do not run the world

Mitch Horowitz

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The last JFK assassination myth: Debunking the eerie prediction that won’t go away

Mitch Horowitz

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Secrets of Osama bin Laden’s library: The mystic, searching book now being misinterpreted as a conspiracy text

Mitch Horowitz

Ronald Reagan at his California vacation home, Rancho del Cielo, near Santa Barbara, Calif., Aug. 14, 1981. (AP)

Ronald Reagan and the occultist: The amazing story of the thinker behind his sunny optimism

Mitch Horowitz