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1 month 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.
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Mar 28, 2025 | 
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.
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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.
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Nov 13, 2024 | 
slowcivilwar.substack.com | Jeff Sharlet
I’m back, because he’s back.
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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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Oct 10, 2024 | 
lithub.com | Jeff Sharlet
Nonfiction writer Jeff Sharlet joins co-hosts V.V. Ganeshananthan and Whitney Terrell to discuss how mainstream media outlets sanitize Donald Trump’s rhetoric in their reporting rather than straightforwardly describing his words and behavior, an approach recently dubbed “sanewashing” by The New Republic’s Parker Molloy.
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Jul 15, 2024 | 
slowcivilwar.substack.com | Jeff Sharlet
I was in the library when it happened. I’d planned to report from Butler, Pennsylvania, had priced out the trip, but on Thursday my plans changed. There but for failures of logistics go I. So I went to the library instead, to work on a very different project, a book about books that never get finished, that remain undone. The utopian possibilities of a story without an ending. One name for such a story—only one of its many names—is democracy.
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Jul 12, 2024 | 
angeladenker.substack.com | Angela Denker |Guthrie Graves-Fitzsimmons |Jeff Sharlet |Brian Kaylor
Hi Readers,Welp - I was preparing to write this newsletter to you, reviewing my notes from our last News with Nuance, only to realize that I had the date wrong on that one. It said July 28, 2024 until only a few minutes ago. I had jumped ahead an entire month in my brain, possibly because June felt like an entire year, heavy and weighted and murky and gloppy. I’ve been reminded lately of that t-shirt, long gone now, that I bought off Amazon in 2020. It didn’t fit well, and the fabric was scratchy.
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Jun 11, 2024 | 
religiondispatches.org | Jeff Sharlet
“I don’t care about you, I just want your vote.”That’s the clip from Trump’s Sunday rally in Vegas that went viral: ex-president, navy blazer; open-necked white shirt, the sagging orange lizard hide shadowed by a bright red MAGA cap beneath the 105 degree noonday sun. His first rally as a felon.
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Jun 10, 2024 | 
jeffsharlet.substack.com | Jeff Sharlet
“I don’t care about you, I just want your vote.”That’s the clip from Trump’s Sunday rally in Vegas that went viral: ex-president, navy blazer; open-necked white shirt, the sagging orange lizard hide shadowed by a bright red MAGA cap beneath the 105 degree noonday sun. His first rally as a felon.
