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L. Benjamin Rolsky

@LBRolsky

RISE AND FALL OF THE RELIGIOUS LEFT
USIH @Ideas_History/@IUPUI Community Scholar + @RutgersCCA Words: @ReligPolitics @MadebyHistory @LAReviewofBooks @CNNOpinion
New Jersey, USA Joined December 2015
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On Quinn Slobodian's latest for the @LAReviewofBooks and how we study the relationship between the Alt Right and American neoliberalism since the 1990s.

"The sooner we stop intellectually profiling the Right and its myriad complexities, the better."

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lareviewofbooks.org Fetishizing the Right, from McCarthy to Musk | Los Angeles Review of Books L. Benjamin Rolsky explores Quinn Slobodian’s “Hayek’s Bastards: Race, Gold, IQ, and the Capitalism of the Far Right.”
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A warning from 2023 😳

"Projection is a powerful force; if not careful, Sharlet and others will metastasize an otherwise provincial development into an international global menace. It has happened before. Hard to believe that it won’t happen again."

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lareviewofbooks.org Feedback Loop: On Jeff Sharlet’s “The Undertow” | Los Angeles Review of Books L. Benjamin Rolsky reviews Jeff Sharlet’s “The Undertow: Scenes from a Slow Civil War.”
L. Benjamin Rolsky @LBRolsky
After Tuesday what say us about Christian Nationalism? What a complete and utter waste of time it's been studying such things. The postdocs, the lectures, the receptions and panels. This is why academia is still lost. Second only to the fascism debate. Which is saying something.
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Last week @ezraklein mentioned that Tuesday's election results signified a "return of a religious left." Such phrasing suggests that the religious left is an episodic phenomenon in American public life. I explore this idea further for @ColumbiaUP below.

cup.columbia.edu/book/the-rise-…
cup.columbia.edu The Rise and Fall of the Religious Left | Columbia University Press For decades now, Americans have believed that their country is deeply divided by “culture wars” waged between religious conservatives and secular liberal... | CUP