Tag: L. Benjamin Rolsky

March 15, 2021

The Religious Left on the Rise Again? Let’s Wait and See

By L. Benjamin Rolsky

In January, Joseph R. Biden was sworn in as the forty-sixth president of the United States. As New York Times columnist Ross Douthat recently observed, the inauguration was a “very American-Catholic spectacle” because it represented a moment in which the...

December 3, 2020

The Op-Ed in an Evangelical Age

By L. Benjamin Rolsky

“Rise and Fall should garner a wide and varied audience, and it appears intentionally so. It is self-consciously and transparently situated, adeptly self-described in relation to a number of subfields, scholars, and paradigmatic shifts.” ~CARA BURNIDGE, Society for U.S. Intellectual History...

December 20, 2019

Book Excerpt! The Rise and Fall of the Religious Left, By L. Benjamin Rolsky (introduction)

“Rolsky demonstrates how Norman Lear, the renowned television producer of classic shows like All in the Family, offers a window into the evolution of the religious left in the 1970s and its complex relationship with the moral majority. A fascinating and...

December 18, 2019

L. Benjamin Rolsky on Progressive Patriotism

“Although the religious right looms large in histories of the 1970s, the struggle over religion, politics and culture didn’t unfold only on the right. In this lively and engaging study, Rolsky shows how Norman Lear and People for the American...

December 17, 2019

Book Giveaway! The Rise and Fall of the Religious Left: Politics, Television, and Popular Culture in the 1970s and Beyond, by L. Benjamin Rolsky

“Although the religious right looms large in histories of the 1970s, the struggle over religion, politics and culture didn’t unfold only on the right. In this lively and engaging study, Rolsky shows how Norman Lear and People for the American...

October 29, 2019

New Book Tuesday! Mag Men, Extraordinary Justice, The Brain in Context and more!

Our weekly list of new books is now available! Mag Men Fifty Years of Making Magazines Walter Bernard and Milton Glaser; foreword by Gloria Steinem For more than fifty years, Walter Bernard and Milton Glaser have revolutionized the look of...