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 Jon Atack is the author of A Piece of Blue Sky, one of the very best books on L. Ron Hubbard and Scientology. He has a new edition of the book for sale, and for more than three years he’s been helping us sift through the legends, myths, and contested facts about Scientology that tend to get hashed and rehashed in books, articles, and especially on the Internet.
Continue reading Scientology’s spies: L. Ron Hubbard’s twisted legacy that proved his sickness
[Argentinian actress Malena Pichot]Our man in Paris, British journalist Jonny Jacobsen, has a report out of South America for us today… Continue reading Jonny Jacobsen: The tweets about Scientology that got a comedian in hot water
Larry Elmore has been called the best thing that ever happened to Dungeons & Dragons art (although personally, your proprietor is more of a Trampier man), and we wondered what Elmore’s legions of role-playing fans might think if they knew that for the past four years, he’s been helping out the Church of Scientology. Continue reading Dungeons & Dragons and Scientology collide: Can we get a saving throw on that engram?
Plenty of us scoffed when Scientology leader David Miscavige spent millions to purchase and renovate the KCET studios in Los Angeles and rename it Scientology Media Productions, which he opened last May. Continue reading SCIENTOLOGY TV: It’s really happening! Spectrum blocks out a channel for Miscavige
[Lawrence Wright, getting the scoop. (Illo by Observer)]Yesterday, we were still thinking about Reza Aslan’s friendly-but-not-so-friendly jabs at Alex Gibney and Lawrence Wright in his Sunday night Believer episode about Scientology. Continue reading Lawrence Wright goes to Nazareth; or, how Reza Aslan drove us into the arms of L. Ron Hubbard
Now that we’ve seen Reza Aslan’s Believer episode about “independent Scientology,” we can see that our earlier story, which was based on what he was saying in interviews leading up to the show, was really on the money and we don’t have a lot to add. Continue reading Reza Aslan’s ‘Believer’ episode about indie Scientology lived down to all expectations
Yesterday we told you that we were looking forward to having a conversation with Jakub Stepniak, a Polish-born aspiring culture superstar who calls himself Kuba Ka, the ‘God of Pop,’ and who got on our radar when the Church of Scientology spent several months grooming him to be one of its vaunted celebrities. Continue reading ‘God of Pop’ Kuba Ka on meeting Scientology’s David Miscavige: ‘Like an emperor or the Pope’
[Rachel Bussett had a big day at the Byron White U.S. Courthouse in Denver]Yesterday, attorney Rachel Bussett argued before the federal Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver, and we caught up with her after she’d gone through the heady experience. Continue reading State investigators fired for blowing the whistle on Scientology’s rehabs get hearing in Denver
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