This is a must-read interview with Jeff Sharlet, one of our foremost scholars of the militant religious right and and its abiding interest in fascism. The interview foregrounds his new book The Undertow and delves into the evolution of the figure of the "strong-man" in the American context, and broaches the related question (to paraphrase Tina Tuner) "What's sex has got to do with it?" The answer is far more than garden-variety prurience....
