L. Benjamin Rolsky is an adjunct instructor at Monmouth University and a part-time lecturer at Rutgers University. His work has appeared in a variety of academic and popular venues including the Journal of the American Academy of Religion and Method and Theory in the Study of Religion as well as The Christian Century, The Marginalia Review of Books, CNN Opinion, and the Religion and Cultural Forum at the University of Chicago. His research and teaching interests include religion and politics, the study of popular culture, and critical theory. Rolsky’s book, The Rise and Fall of the Religious Left: Politics, Television, and Popular Culture in the 1970s and Beyond, was just published by Columbia University Press. Rolsky is currently researching a project that will explore the history of the Christian Right as an artifact of the Culture Wars in the recent American past.
CONTRIBUTOR ARTICLES
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.”...
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....
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....
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....
“Little Guy” America
How does Robert Wuthnow's "The Left Behind: Decline and Rage in Rural America" differ from other examples of the post-2016 "Reaching-Out Industry"?...
