Jeff Sharlet

Thanks to Religion Dispatches for republishing my article on Vance Boelter's theological background. religiondispatches.org/violent-prayer…

"Metaphors don’t just reflect reality, they shape it. Like actual war, spiritual war presupposes an enemy so dangerous and so unreasonable that violence is the only logical response." @JeffSharlet slowcivilwar.substack.com/p/on-the-chris…

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. slowcivilwar.substack.com/p/on-the-chris…

In downtown LA

Don’t Take the Bait — Kristi Noem and Fascism’s Sadistic Eroticization of Power ( from @JeffSharlet) religiondispatches.org/dont-take-the-…

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 God, it was ‘The People,’ that great abstract many-faced mass.” Read more: shorturl.at/Df5kb

Vivian Maier, Self-portrait

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.

"This is how Trumpism laughs," Sharlet said. "UFC — the melodrama of wrestling, the very real stakes of very real violence — is the embodiment of Trumpism's joking/not-joking rhetorical style. Can't you take a joke? Can't you take a punch? Let's find out."

I also checked in with @JeffSharlet, who writes about fascism for VF and other outlets, and said on election night that "ultimate fighting is the aesthetic of what's to come." I asked him to elaborate. Sharlet has a darker view than Krakauer >> x.com/JeffSharlet/st…

. @DemocracyNow! Podcast 'A New Crusade? Trump Taps Christian Nationalists Pete Hegseth & Mike Huckabee to Top Posts' Nermeen (@nermeendn) Shaikh, Amy Goodman, @JeffSharlet democracynow.org/2024/11/15/jef…

Author @JeffSharlet warns that Trump's pick to lead the Pentagon, Fox News personality Pete Hegseth, is a self-described "extremist" who wants to purge the military of generals seen as disloyal to the next president. democracynow.org/2024/11/15/jef…

Something else about Pete Hegseth.

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.

Trump's pick of Fox News personality Pete Hegseth to lead the Pentagon would empower a Christian nationalist and self-described extremist who claims the military is too "woke" for him. "He wants it known that he is too far to the right for the armed forces," says @JeffSharlet.

If only more listened to her warnings when she wrote Building God's Kingdom. "If you're surprised by rise of evangelicals into politics you haven't been paying attention." @julieingersoll (The submission of women is a given) youtu.be/V5bKgfJ5amU?fe…

Why are you watching this show? Why are you reading these tweets? You don't care so hard that you can't look away?

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.