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Vance performs ‘delicate dance’ as VP
Jack Butler writes for National Review Online about political challenges the vice president faces in Donald Trump’s administration. No person has a better chance of being president in 2029 —…
Hillbilly Elegy
book by J. D. Vance
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Trump, Vance and a Social Conservatism ‘Rebrand’
James Antle of the Washington Examiner explores an interesting piece of the Republican presidential election strategy. One of the more eye-catching moments in the vice presidential debate was when Sen.…
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Exposing ‘Dirty Secret’ of Media’s GOP Coverage
Jim Geraghty of National Review Online exposes a little-discussed fact involving mainstream media coverage of Republican politics. A liberal New York Times columnist laments that Republicans in Ohio and Pennsylvania…
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The Divide Between City Slickers and Country Boys
Liberals like small homes that are close to shopping and attractions, while conservatives prefer to have larger properties and drive longer distances to the store. This is one of the…
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Hillsdale president explores conservatism in the age of Trump
Hillsdale College President Larry Arnn muses on the future of conservatism in the latest issue of Imprimis. If American conservatism means anything, then, it means the things found at the…
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The search for the ‘Real America’
Heather Wilhelm writes at National Review Online about coastal elites’ approach to the types of Americans who put Donald Trump in the White House. Whatever your stance on pickup trucks,…
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Memoir that exposes the limits of public policy
Columbia University professor John McWhorter gleans interesting insights from a new memoir tackling “hillbilly” culture. For a book arguing that poor Americans have control over the trajectory of their lives…
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“Powerful people sometimes do things to help people like me without really understanding people like me.”
In yet another review of Hillbilly Elegy by J.D. Vance, the London Spectator’s Helen Dale notes that: Vance makes few policy suggestions, most of them mild. However, his account of a debate in…
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What Ails the White Working Class?
At City Journal, Aaron Renn has published a review of J.D. Vance’s Hillbilly Elegy. It’s interesting throughout, but I found the following excerpt particularly insightful: For the Left, the unpleasant truth is what…
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“Trump: Tribune Of Poor White People”
That’s the title of an interview of J.D. Vance that recently appeared in the Amercian Conservative. Vance is the author of Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and a Culture in Crisis.…