Jeff Sharlet, professor at Dartmouth College, joins host Krys Boyd to discuss how American political leanings are taking the form of religious devotion – and how Ashli Babbitt, who was killed during the January 6 insurrection, has become a martyr for many on the far right.
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Did Uganda’s 2009 Anti-Homosexual Bill originate from American fundamentalism? We’ll examine the connections between the bill’s authors and a secretive group of Washington D.C. politicians this hour with Jeff Sharlet, whose article “Straight Man’s Burden: The American roots of Uganda’s anti-gay persecutions” appears in this month’s Harper’s Magazine.
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Are fundamentalists rewriting U.S. History? Jeff Sharlet thinks so. The Harper’s Magazine contributing editor and editor of The Revealer.org examines new interpretations of our nation’s past in textbooks and teaching guides in his December cover story “Through a Glass Darkly: How the Christian Right is Reimagining U.S. History.” Jeff Sharlet will join us for the hour.
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