The New York Times recently ran an Op-Ed piece by Michelle Goldberg about the surprising extent of interest among millenials in occult practices. One excerpt claims:
“I suspect that this assumption of chaos — the sense that institutions have failed and no one is in charge — helps explain the well-documented resurgence of occultism among millennials. Attempts at spell-casting are obviously not unique to today’s young people; the Washington writer and hostess Sally Quinn just published a book in which she boasts about hexing the renowned magazine editor Clay Felker, my former journalism professor, before his death from cancer. Still, magic and witchcraft have a renewed cachet, one that seems related to our current climate of political and cultural breakdown.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/03/opinion/witches-occult-comeback.html.
