The whipcrack of agon has lashed America’s 2016, and Tim LaHaye has died.
The extraordinarily influential evangelical remains best known for his co-authorship of the Left Behind novels, ubiquitous between the Clinton and Bush administrations. But LaHaye not only lived through several different Americas in his 90 years, he helped shape our present moment. On the face of it, this seems an obvious, water-is-wet-ish thing to say about a public figure. But LaHaye did more than simply contribute to public discourse, or propose a particular religious perspective; he help facilitate a way of seeing the world, of being in the world, that will long outlive him.
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