Jerry Falwell

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• SOURCE: The Nation
  12/21/2022
  

  Will MAGA Be the Last Straw for Conservative Jews' Partnership with the Christian Right?

  by Eric Alterman

  Since the 1970s, an alliance between Christian and Jewish conservatives has been brokered over mutual support for Israel's occupation and settlement of the West Bank. Are changing attitudes toward the occupation among American Jews and the naked antisemitism of the MAGA right breaking the alliance? 

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  8/4/2022
  

  The Ongoing Legacy of Direct-Mail Grievance Politics

  by L. Benjamin Rolsky

  By privatizing political discourse, the pioneers of direct mail advertising could solicit funds at the same time as they stoked the fears of a targeted set of voters; this worked to bring the religious right into the heart of the Republican Party. 

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  7/18/2022
  

  The Christian Right's History is Bad Scholarship, But Great SCOTUS Lobbying

  by Lauren R. Kerby

  Two consequential court rulings hinged on historical interpretation of abortion and gun rights. The court's majority borrowed this history from the religious right's campaign to craft a historical narrative to justify white Protestant nationalism.

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• SOURCE: New York Magazine
  11/8/2021
  

  Who's Afraid of Higher Education?

  The splashy launch of the University of Austin concept echoes the establishment a half-century ago of evangelical conservative colleges; despite the claim to value free speech, the institutions seek to avoid intellectual turbulence and conflict.

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• SOURCE: The Way of Improvement Leads Home
  8/26/2020
  

  The Last Fundamentalist Empire Died Yesterday in Lynchburg, Virginia

  by John Fea

  Although he oversaw tremendous growth at Liberty University and tried to lead in the culture wars, Jerry Falwell Jr. was unable to maintain credibility as a faith leader necessary to hold his empire. It's unclear whether any evangelical organization can succeed as a business and a theological enterprise. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  8/9/2020
  

  After Falwell Stumbles, His Hometown Sees a Leader in Need of Redemption

  Historians of religion including Grant Wacker, Anthea Butler and John Fea comment on the significance of Jerry Falwell, Jr.'s recent public scandals and the position of Liberty University in the evangelical world. 

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• 6/11/18
  

  The Notre Dame and Harvard of the Christian World?

  by Adam Laats

  That was the dream for Liberty University at its founding.