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The Vice President Has an X Habit February 26, 2025
Before his second cup of coffee, Jonathan Liedl discovered he was going viral. The academic did not understand. His niche Catholic conversations had attracted a small following over the years, but most days, his corner of the Internet remained a quie...
Vance Delivers a Historic Defense of Free Speech February 20, 2025
In “Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis,” J.D. Vance wrote, “I don’t believe in epiphanies. I don’t believe in transformative moments, as transformation is harder than a moment.”Despite that profound point, on Feb. 14, Vance ...
Europe Has a Free Speech Problem February 19, 2025
Last week, U.S. Vice President J.D. Vance shocked an A-list group of European political and military leaders at the Munich Security Conference in Germany with a blunt message: Europe has gone too far in restricting speech. According to Vance, the mai...
MAGA is Failing Because It's Succeeding February 13, 2025
I’ve had a horrible cold for the past week, which has made processing recent events in DC even more disorienting and surreal than it was already bound to be.I went to bed congested and woke up to the US feuding with Canada. Just kidding, we’ve actual...
The Tiger Mother Roars Back January 14, 2025
In January 2011, Yale Law School professor Amy Chua was in the middle of her book tour, in her hotel room in Seattle, when an email came in from the future vice president of the United States.Her book—Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother—had just come out...
Defending J.D. Vance September 27, 2024
One of the many left-wing lines of attack against vice-presidential nominee J.D. Vance is that he’s “not authentic.” Biden’s former press secretary Jen Psaki recently used those words when she warned that “the American public can sniff inauthenticity...
Talk to Me Nicely August 16, 2024
How many times in the last few weeks have I heard the broad strokes of the same story: “No one is having babies”? Millennials are paralyzed by narcissism and indecision. J.D. Vance thinks there’s too many childless cat ladies who don’t have a stake i...
The Surprising Truth About Loneliness in America August 15, 2024
Who are the loneliest people in America?American men were said to be in a “friendship recession,” with a survey finding the number of men without any close friends increased fivefold since 1990. Meanwhile, resurfaced comments from Republican vice pre...
'Hillbilly Elegy' Revisited August 05, 2024
No sooner had J. D. Vance been chosen as Donald Trump’s running mate and anointed as the future of MAGA that attention turned to his phenomenally successful, best-selling book, Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis, first publis...
Was 'Hillbilly Elegy' Ever Good? July 18, 2024
What I’ve always remembered most clearly from J.D. Vance’s bestselling memoir, 2016’s Hillbilly Elegy, is its scorching descriptions of the lies that the working-class rural white Americans he grew up among tell themselves. An account of his chaotic ...
Drinking With J.D. Vance July 17, 2024
Do you know the old joke about a rabbi, a priest, and J.D. Vance walking into a bar?Actually, it’s not a joke. It happened to me....
