L. Benjamin Rolsky

L. Benjamin Rolsky is an affiliated fellow at the Center for Cultural Analysis at Rutgers University and a community scholar with the Society for US Intellectual History. He is also the author of The Rise and Fall of the Religious Left: Politics, Television, and Popular Culture in the 1970s and Beyond (Columbia University Press, 2019).

Articles

Fetishizing the Right, from McCarthy to Musk
L. Benjamin Rolsky explores Quinn Slobodian’s “Hayek’s Bastards: Race, Gold, IQ, and the Capitalism of the Far Right.”
L. Benjamin RolskyJun 8
- Politics
- History
Feedback Loop: On Jeff Sharlet’s “The Undertow”
L. Benjamin Rolsky reviews Jeff Sharlet’s “The Undertow: Scenes from a Slow Civil War.”
L. Benjamin RolskyMay 21, 2023
- Politics
Religion of the Market: On Gary Gerstle’s “The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order”
L. Benjamin Rolsky considers Gary Gerstle’s new book, “The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order: America and the World in the Free Market Era.”
L. Benjamin RolskyJul 18, 2022
- Politics
That New Old-Time Religion
L. Benjamin Rolsky reviews Randall Balmer’s “Bad Faith: Race and the Rise of the Religious Right.”
L. Benjamin RolskyNov 30, 2021
- Politics
Reclaiming “Populism”: On Thomas Frank’s “The People, No”
L. Benjamin Rolsky reviews Thomas Frank’s new book, “The People, No: A Brief History of Anti-Populism.”
L. Benjamin RolskySep 29, 2020
- History
- Politics
Listening to the Darkness: On Jeff Sharlet’s “This Brilliant Darkness: A Book of Strangers”
L. Benjamin Rolsky looks at "This Brilliant Darkness," the new book from Jeff Sharlet.
L. Benjamin RolskyApr 15, 2020
What the Left Can Learn from the Right About Winning Elections
Louis Rolsky reviews Reece Peck’s “Fox Populism,” which considers the intersections between conservatism, populism, and mass media.
L. Benjamin RolskyAug 13, 2019
- Politics
Polarization, USA
Kruse and Zelizer have written the standard work for those teaching courses on the forces of polarization that have produced our divided public.
L. Benjamin RolskyFeb 3, 2019
- Politics

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