This column first featured in Club Huck’s culture newsletter. Sign up for free here to make sure it lands in your inbox every month. Louis Theroux is a master of letting hardline ideologues hang themselves. In his decades-long career, he’s used his faux-naïve journalistic persona to wheedle cult leaders, neo-Nazis, members of the Westboro Baptist Church, and Israeli settlers in the West Bank alike into speaking more frankly than they might do otherwise.