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Jeff Sharlet

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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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  • 2 weeks ago | lithub.com | Martha Park |Mark O’connell |Jeff Sharlet |Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing

    As a child, I grew up singing a song in church which ended with the lines, “As it was in the beginning / is now and ever shall be / world without end / amen, amen.” I loved the way the song sounded like a hope, a plea—not like something promised or certain. My new book’s title, World Without End, comes from this song.

  • 2 months ago | religiondispatches.org | Jeff Sharlet

    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 Trump is deporting an untold number of immigrants. You know, of course, that Trump claims that they’re all gang members. And you know also, I suspect, that many aren’t.

  • Nov 13, 2024 | religiondispatches.org | Jeff Sharlet

    On Tuesday, Trump announced Fox News talking head Pete Hegseth as his new secretary of defense. The guy in the image above. It’s not a parody; it’s from the cover of his 2020 book, American Crusade.

  • Nov 13, 2024 | slowcivilwar.substack.com | Jeff Sharlet

    I’m back, because he’s back.

  • Oct 26, 2024 | laphamsquarterly.org | Dagmar Herzog |Francine Prose |Jeff Sharlet |Jonathan Lyons

    Sixty years ago, Alfred Kinsey, a professor of zoology at Indiana University, published Sexual Behavior in the Human Male, an 804-page tract documenting impressively high rates of non-normative behavior among ordinary Americans, including widespread premarital intercourse, marital infidelity, homosexuality, and masturbation. The report made a ponderous pretense at being value-free. The scientific facade fooled no one.

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Jeff Sharlet
Jeff Sharlet @JeffSharlet
18 Mar 25

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…

Jeff Sharlet
Jeff Sharlet @JeffSharlet
18 Dec 24

RT @sylvie_longeron: Vivian Maier, Self-portrait https://t.co/JFeC8RVZyl

Jeff Sharlet
Jeff Sharlet @JeffSharlet
30 Nov 24

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.