It’s been a while since we’ve heard much from Jerry Falwell, Jr. (Not that anyone’s complaining.) Outside of a series of legal filings involving breaches of contract and alleged defamation, the former president of Liberty University hasn’t said much about the myriad scandals that finally brought him down.

That is, until today, when Vanity Fair‘s Gabriel Sherman published a lengthy profile of Falwell that comes after eight months’ worth of interviews and covers all kinds of ground — far beyond the salacious sex stories and hypocritical behavior.