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Jeff Sharlet writes about politics and religion for Esquire, GQ, New York Times Magazine, and more.\n\n \u201cI like the stories with difficult people. I like the stories about people who are dismissed as monsters. I hate the term \u2018monster.\u2019 \u2018Monster\u2019 is a safe term for us, right? Trump\u2019s a monster. Great, we don\u2019t need to wrestle with, \u2018Uh oh, he\u2019s not a monster. He\u2019s in this human family with us.\u2019 I\u2019m not normalizing him. I\u2019m acknowledging the fact. Now, what\u2019s wrong with us? If Trump is human, what\u2019s wrong with you?\u201d\n\nThanks to MailChimp, Squarespace, and Blue Apron for sponsoring this week's episode.\n@JeffSharlet\njeffsharlet.blogspot.com\nSharlet on Longform\n[00:15] "David Fahrenthold: Investigating Trump" (Katie Couric \u2022 Katie Couric Show \u2022 Dec 2016)\n[00:30] "Edward Snowden: The Whistleblower" (Katie Couric \u2022 Katie Couric Show \u2022 Dec 2016)\n[07:00] Dec\xe2t o Revist\u0103\n[08:00] "Bullies in the Schoolyard" (Tablet \u2022 Dec 2016)\n[08:30] Killing the Buddha\n[08:45] Go Tell It on the Mountain (James Baldwin \u2022 Vintage \u2022 2013)\n[09:00] The Apostle\n[10:30] Wisconsin Death Trip (Michael Lesy \u2022 University of New Mexico Press \u2022 2000)\n[11:15] Pakn Treger\n[12:30] The Chronicle of Higher Education\n[13:30] Killing the Buddha: A Heretic\u2019s Bible (with Peter Manseau \u2022 Free Press \u2022 2004)\n[18:45] "Jesus plus nothing" (Harper\u2019s \u2022 Mar 2003) [sub req\u2019d]\n[18:45] The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power (Harper Perennial \u2022 2009)\n[22:45] "Straight Man\u2019s Burden" (Harper\u2019s \u2022 Sep 2010)\n[27:30] "Ashcroft\u2019s Ascent" (Jeffrey Toobin \u2022 New Yorker \u2022 Apr 2002)\n[28:00] John Ashcroft Sings \u201cLet the Eagle Soar\u201d (YouTube)\n[30:00] "The Runaway General" (Michael Hastings \u2022 Rolling Stone \u2022 Jun 2010)\n[30:45] "James Webb\u2019s Never-Ending War" (Rolling Stone \u2022 Jun 2007)\n[31:45] "The Ministry of Fun" (Esquire \u2022 Aug 2016)\n[37:00] "Are You Man Enough for the Men\u2019s Rights Movement?" (GQ \u2022 Feb 2014)\n[42:30] "Dubliners" (Virginia Quarterly Review \u2022 2016)\n[45:30] C Street: The Fundamentalist Threat to American Democracy (Little, Brown and Company \u2022 2010)\n[46:30] "Donald Trump, American Preacher" (New York Times Magazine \u2022 Apr 2016)\n[51:45] "A&E Shelves a K.K.K. Documentary Series Over Cash Payments" (New York Times \u2022 Dec 2016)\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices