Dr. L. Benjamin Rolsky is an expert on American Religion and the author of the new book, The Rise and Fall of the Religious Left (Columbia 2019). Dr. Rolsky received his PhD in American Religious Studies from Drew University. He is currently an adjunct instructor at Monmouth University in History and Anthropology and a part-time lecturer at Rutgers University- New Brunswick in Religion. You can read more at his website here. You can follow him on twitter here.

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Some Highlights:

TV Producer Norman Lear

People for the American Way

Mister Rogers

History trying to be relevant

All in the Family, Sanford and Son, One Day at a Time, The Jeffersons

Op-eds and the abuse of writing

Defining Christian Right and Christian Left

The Moral Majority

South Park, The Office, and modern television

Adjuncting and contingent labor (NB: Check out HoH Ep 72 w/ Herb Childress)

Elizabeth Warren, Mayor Pete, and the 2020 Presidential Election

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