Scholarship

Books

The Radio Right: How a Band of Broadcasters Took on the Federal Government and Built the Modern Conservative Movement (Oxford University Press, June 2020). (Link)

Visions of Liberty, co-editor with Aaron Ross Powell (Cato Institute, April 2020). (Link)

Articles and Chapters

“The Democratic Promise of Globalized Film and Television,” Defending Globalization, eds. Scott Lincicome and Clark Packard (Cato Institute, November 2024): 401-418. (Link)

“From Hot News to Link Tax: The Dangers of a Quasi-Property Right in Information,” Media and Society After Technological Disruption, eds. Justin Hurwitz and Kyle Langvardt (Cambridge University Press, May 2024): 220-241. (Link)

“Conservative Talk Radio and Political Persuasion in the US, 1950-1970,” Journal of Comparative Economics (January 2024). (Link)

“’Do Something about Life Line’: The Kennedy Administration’s Campaign to Silence the Radio Right,” Presidential Studies Quarterly 48:4 (January 2018): 1-15 (Feature). (Link)

“Radio Politics, Origin Myths, and the Creation of New Evangelicalism,” Fides et Historia 48:1 (Winter/Spring 2016): 61-90. (Link)

“The National Council of Churches versus Right-Wing Radio: How the Mainline Muted the New Christian Right,” The Lively Experiment: Religious Toleration in America, from Roger Williams to the Present, eds. Christopher Beneke and Christopher Grenda (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2015): 267-286. Selected by Choice as one of the “Top 25 Outstanding Academic Titles” for 2015.

Digital Projects

Contributor, ~120 entries for an interactive timeline of American religious history, Association of Religion Data Archives.

Contributor, “Muscular Christianity,” The American Yawp. An online, freely accessible textbook.