Jeff Sharlet
@JeffSharlet
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NYT Bestseller THE UNDERTOW: Scenes from a Slow Civil War. THE FAMILY (book & Netflix). THIS BRILLIANT DARKNESS. Words+pics @VanityFair. Teach @Dartmouth.
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Joined June 2008
Thanks to Religion Dispatches for republishing my article on Vance Boelter's theological background.
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Above is a photograph I took in March 2024 of the lobby of Christ for the Nations Institute, a Bible college in Dallas that the Minnesota political murders suspect, Vance Boelter, appears online to...
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RT @DavidDark: "Metaphors don’t just reflect reality, they shape it. Like actual war, spiritual war presupposes an enemy so dangerous and s….
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RT @JeffSharlet: I realized I'd been to the Bible college to which the Minnesota assassin attributes his Christian education, so I wrote ab….
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I realized I'd been to the Bible college to which the Minnesota assassin attributes his Christian education, so I wrote about its violent theology.
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RT @cookiesinheaven: Don’t Take the Bait — Kristi Noem and Fascism’s Sadistic Eroticization of Power ( from @JeffSharlet) . .
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The image above is an altered detail from a video posted on X by Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem, along with a series of still photographs from her tour of the El Salvador prison to which...
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RT @oxfordamerican: Lee Hays was born on this day in 1914!. As @jeffsharlet wrote for Issue 58, “Lee was a believer…But Lee’s god wasn’t Go….
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Venturing back here into the X Contaminated Zone to say I’m over at bsky, and you could cede every critique of it + acknowledge lingering usefulness of this place, & the new place is still better. See you there, I hope.
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RT @brianstelter: "This is how Trumpism laughs," Sharlet said. "UFC — the melodrama of wrestling, the very real stakes of very real violenc….
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RT @brianstelter: I also checked in with @JeffSharlet, who writes about fascism for VF and other outlets, and said on election night that "….
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RT @charleshb: . @DemocracyNow! Podcast 'A New Crusade? Trump Taps Christian Nationalists Pete Hegseth & Mike Huckabee to Top Posts' Nermee….
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Concerns are mounting over Trump’s pick to lead the Pentagon, Fox News host and military veteran Pete Hegseth. Hegseth is a vocal opponent of the military’s multiculturalism and decision to allow...
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RT @democracynow: Author @JeffSharlet warns that Trump's pick to lead the Pentagon, Fox News personality Pete Hegseth, is a self-described….
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Concerns are mounting over Trump’s pick to lead the Pentagon, Fox News host and military veteran Pete Hegseth. Hegseth is a vocal opponent of the military’s multiculturalism and decision to allow...
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Thanks. Since I’m neither a Marxist nor a philosopher, my book inevitably falls short of the analyses the reviewer deems essential—they’re not my project—but I’m grateful for his generosity nonetheless. A correction: I *don’t* think Occupy needed demands.
New review just published online in the Marx and Philosophy Review of Books:. Paul Elias on Jeff Sharlet's The Undertow: Scenes from a Slow Civil War .
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RT @democracynow: Trump's pick of Fox News personality Pete Hegseth to lead the Pentagon would empower a Christian nationalist and self-des….
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RT @BaptizeFeminism: @JeffSharlet @julieingersoll If only more listened to her warnings when she wrote Building God's Kingdom. "If you're….
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There's a reason for the pushback on women's rights we see playing out due right wing Christian agendas. Many evangelical leaders in politics are aligned wit...
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Why are you watching this show? Why are you reading these tweets? You don't care so hard that you can't look away?.
@JeffSharlet @democracynow Why should anyone care what you have to say? Being in this show cancels any credibility you might have anyway.
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I’ll be on @democracynow in an hour to talk about Christian nationalism and Trump’s picks, especially two of the scariest, Pete Hegseth and Mike Huckabee.
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