Posts tagged "Jeff Sharlet"
Who’s Hot, Who’s Not, Fundamentalism Edition
By Jeff Sharlet Rick Warren's real conribution to American evangelicalism is the perfection of the humble-brag.
“Nones” and Money
By Jeff Sharlet Just as the election blinds the press to the bigger, enduring story -- reality -- of massive and growing inequality in the U.S., so the Pew study of the Nones has distracted many from what I think are the most interesting numbers.
Daily Links: Off the Wagon Edition
Ok, they're not daily but they are really good links to stuff you should be reading!
Al Shabaab: Where Do They Go From Here?
Joe McKnight Ever since Somali President Siad Barre’s government was removed from power in 1991, Somalia has lacked an effective central government.
OWS Reads
Our founding editor, Jeff Sharlet, has two new articles out on the Occupy Movement: at Bookforum and at Rolling Stone. Here's an excerpt from the former:
I’m not sure when I first felt that joy, but I know when I named it for what it was: one night lying on a sleeping pad beneath a thin...
Occupy Writers
The Revealer founder Jeff Sharlet hustled up a list of writers who support the Occupy movement on Wall Street and around the world. Read it here: www.occupywriters.com
In Lieu of Hobbits
An interview with Jeff Sharlet about his new book of essays, Sweet Heaven When I Die: Faith, Faithless, and the Country In Between. Sharlet is the bestselling author of The Family and C Street and a contributing editor to Harper’s and Rolling Stone. Mellon Assistant Professor of English at Dartmouth College, he taught literary nonfiction through...
Sweet Heaven
My predecessor, founding editor of The Revealer, Jeff Sharlet, has a new book out that you should all run to buy, Sweet Heaven When I Die: Faith, Faithless, and the Country In Between (W.W. Norton & Company, 264 pages). The thirteen essays that make up the book examine varieties of faith, however vastly defined...
Inferiority Complexes
From "Fundamentalism Spring Eternal for GOP," at Washington Post by The Revealer founding editor, Jeff Sharlet:
Social conservatives, particularly of the Protestant variety, want out of 2012 what they’ve wanted since H.L. Mencken handed them a shellacking at the Scopes “Monkey Trial” in 1925: respectability. Christian conservatives have either dominated American politics or shouted loudest...
Fall 2011 Revealer Reading Series
Books and more books! Join us this fall for three reading events that will feature some of our very favorite religion writers.
Sharlet Pride!
A giant congratulations to The Revealer's founding editor, Jeff Sharlet, recipient of the Molly National Journalism Prize, named for Molly Ivins and sponsored by The Texas Observer. The award is for Jeff's Harper's article on how US evangelicals contributed to the "Kill the Gays" bill in Uganda.
He beat out Maureen Dowd of The...
Networking What?
A week after David Kato, a rights activist, was killed in Uganda, President Obama attends the National Prayer Breakfast. More on Kato at the New Yorker.
