Jeff Sharlet writes about politics and religion for Esquire, GQ, New York Times Magazine, and more.

“I like the stories with difficult people. I like the stories about people who are dismissed as monsters. I hate the term ‘monster.’ ‘Monster’ is a safe term for us, right? Trump’s a monster. Great, we don’t need to wrestle with, ‘Uh oh, he’s not a monster. He’s in this human family with us.’ I’m not normalizing him. I’m acknowledging the fact. Now, what’s wrong with us? If Trump is human, what’s wrong with you?”

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Sharlet on Longform

[00:15] "David Fahrenthold: Investigating Trump" (Katie Couric • Katie Couric Show • Dec 2016)

[00:30] "Edward Snowden: The Whistleblower" (Katie Couric • Katie Couric Show • Dec 2016)

[07:00] Decât o Revistă

[08:00] "Bullies in the Schoolyard" (Tablet • Dec 2016)

[08:30] Killing the Buddha

[08:45] Go Tell It on the Mountain (James Baldwin • Vintage • 2013)

[09:00] The Apostle

[10:30] Wisconsin Death Trip (Michael Lesy • University of New Mexico Press • 2000)

[11:15] Pakn Treger

[12:30] The Chronicle of Higher Education

[13:30] Killing the Buddha: A Heretic’s Bible (with Peter Manseau • Free Press • 2004)

[18:45] "Jesus plus nothing" (Harper’s • Mar 2003) [sub req’d]

[18:45] The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power (Harper Perennial • 2009)

[22:45] "Straight Man’s Burden" (Harper’s • Sep 2010)

[27:30] "Ashcroft’s Ascent" (Jeffrey Toobin • New Yorker • Apr 2002)

[28:00] John Ashcroft Sings “Let the Eagle Soar” (YouTube)

[30:00] "The Runaway General" (Michael Hastings • Rolling Stone • Jun 2010)

[30:45] "James Webb’s Never-Ending War" (Rolling Stone • Jun 2007)

[31:45] "The Ministry of Fun" (Esquire • Aug 2016)

[37:00] "Are You Man Enough for the Men’s Rights Movement?" (GQ • Feb 2014)

[42:30] "Dubliners" (Virginia Quarterly Review • 2016)

[45:30] C Street: The Fundamentalist Threat to American Democracy (Little, Brown and Company • 2010)

[46:30] "Donald Trump, American Preacher" (New York Times Magazine • Apr 2016)

[51:45] "A&E Shelves a K.K.K. Documentary Series Over Cash Payments" (New York Times • Dec 2016)

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