Send us a text The St. John’s Cathedral Boys’ School was founded in Winnipeg, Manitoba, in the late 1950s as an experiment in turning boys into men through relentless hardship, wilderness training, and strict religious discipline. For four decades, the St. John’s system operated under a Muscular Christian belief: that suffering, hard work, and obedience would reform “undisciplined” youth and bring them closer to God. Created by teacher Frank Weins and conservative journalist Ted Byfield—neith...
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Send us a text The St. John’s Cathedral Boys’ School was founded in Winnipeg, Manitoba, in the late 1950s as an experiment in turning boys into men through relentless hardship, wilderness training, and strict religious discipline. For four decades, the St. John’s system operated under a Muscular Christian belief: that suffering, hard work, and obedience would reform “undisciplined” youth and bring them closer to God. Created by teacher Frank Weins and conservative journalist Ted Byfield—neith...
Send us a text Pelton traces propaganda’s modern roots to Sigmund Freud’s nephew, Edward Bernays, who turned psychoanalysis into a tool for mass persuasion. His early rise in advertising—and decision to leave it behind—fueled his quest to understand real conflict, not the manufactured kind. “My job was to sell people something they didn’t need — and that’s when I realized how deep this runs.” From Psychoanalysis to Public Relations to War Freud’s ideas on the unconscious became Bernays’ blue...
The World's Most Dangerous Places Podcast
Send us a text The St. John’s Cathedral Boys’ School was founded in Winnipeg, Manitoba, in the late 1950s as an experiment in turning boys into men through relentless hardship, wilderness training, and strict religious discipline. For four decades, the St. John’s system operated under a Muscular Christian belief: that suffering, hard work, and obedience would reform “undisciplined” youth and bring them closer to God. Created by teacher Frank Weins and conservative journalist Ted Byfield—neith...
