What have we learned in 32 years?

…that today it is mainstream US society lining up to “drink the Kool-Aid” of complicity with militarism, murder, torture, and a sense of entitlement that our boundless appetites must be…

Letter from Stephan Jones

…here with too many words. We have gone from being viewed as a bunch of crazies who dutifully lined up to “drink the Kool-Aid” to being hopeless victims who were…

Laura Johnston Kohl’s Jonestown

…survivors of Jonestown, and to find one practically in my backyard was a huge shock. My friends made the obligatory and questionably tasteful “don’t drink the Kool-Aid” jokes, but I…

Finding Jeanette McDonald’s Pool

…billboards read: The food is so good, you’ll want to drink the Kool-Aid. When I heard this on NPR, I nearly fell out of my bed. I was so angry….

Stanley Nelson Reflects on Lessons of Jonestown

…done anything to stop it. Questioning and speaking out had been stifled. I am amazed at how many young people don’t know about Peoples Temple. The phrase, “drink the kool-aid”…

Just Like The Jones’

…Congressman Ryan and troubled parents flew in to see for themselves, they were gunned down by loyalists who exhorted a thousand followers to drink the Kool-Aid which passed as mass…

Down the rabbit hole and into the vortex

…is not part of any collective Danish memory and not something the media makes reference to. I have never even heard a Kool-Aid joke. I believe this gives me a…