Jeff Sharlet in Kansas City
Overland Park, actually, a swanky suburb driven to distraction by the prospect of Senator Sam Brownback returning home to become governor. Not that Overland Park, or my hosts, the MainStream Coalition, are particularly liberal — rather, they’re refuges for Kansas’ strange alliance of fiscal conservatism, social liberals, labor lefties, and maybe even a few radicals. But I don’t need to tell you! Because if you’re reading this and you care, you’re probably here in Kansas. I’ll be speaking Tuesday night at 7 pm at Congregation Beth Torah, 6100 W. 127th Street, Overland Park. Tickets are steep — $30 — but it’s a fundraiser.
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Jeff Sharlet is co-editor of Believer, Beware: First-Person Dispatches from the Margins of Faith (2009), author of the New York Times bestseller The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power (2008), and coauthor, with Peter Manseau, of Killing the Buddha: A Heretic's Bible (2004).