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A Cultural History of Art Bell

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Alex Heard

Alex Heard

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Alex Heard is a journalist and author recognized for his insightful reporting on American culture, millenarian movements, and the apocalyptic anxieties that have shaped the national consciousness. As a guest on late-night radio, his explorations of the people and subcultures drawn to end-times prophecy and utopian visions provided a thoughtful, journalistic perspective on the social forces driving millennial fervor.

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January 18, 1999: Apocalypse Pretty Soon - Alex Heard

Jan 18, 1999
2h 43m
Art Bell welcomes Alex Heard, editor at Wired Magazine and author of Apocalypse Pretty Soon, a book exploring American subcultures driven by millennial and utopian visions of transformation. Heard describes years spent embedded with groups ranging from Christian pre-millennialists awaiting biblical prophecy to liber...