The Apocalypse Goes Mainstream

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/26/briefing/apocalypse.html

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"The Apocalypse Goes Mainstream

About 40 percent of American adults believe that we are living in the 'end times, according to a 2022 poll. Where did that idea come from?

About 40 percent of American adults said in a 2022 poll that we are living in the 'end times.' For much of the country, it’s an idea that’s almost mundane. The rapture is spliced into their Sunday sermons and enchants their world with a fearsome possibility. I’d hear bad news on television as a kid and think, is this it? Has the time come?

It’s an idea that’s now bouncing around, too, at the highest levels of the U.S. government.

The Trump administration has framed its campaign in Iran as a biblically-prophesied holy war. Paula White-Cain, the head of the White House Faith Office, asked Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu whether the conflict was a sign of the 'End of Days.'

That’s also the title of a new book by Chris Jennings, a journalist who used to work at The New Yorker. The book looks back at Ruby Ridge, the violent 1990s standoff between federal law enforcement and a survivalist family in Idaho. It also seeks to explain the emergence of apocalyptic rhetoric in the United States, and how it has shaped modern conspiracies like QAnon."

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/26/briefing/apocalypse.html