Caricature of “Lord Byron, the Satanic writer” by George Cruishank, 1820.

Paint It Black

What is the ‘Lefthand Path’?

Mitch Horowitz
11 min readJun 19, 2022

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In attempting to annex four regions of Ukraine, Vladimir Putin announced in a speech of September 30, 2022, “The repression of freedom is taking on the outlines of a ‘reverse religion,’ of real Satanism,” claiming that Western liberal outlooks on matters like gender identity amounted to a “denial of man.”

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Mitch Horowitz

"Treats esoteric ideas & movements with an even-handed intellectual studiousness"-Washington Post | PEN Award-winning historian | Censored in China