Here is Elizabeth Bruenig at The Atlantic: Late last month, hundreds of leaders from Catholic relief and aid organizations met for the annual Catholic Social Ministry Gathering in Washington, D.C. What ensued was “a scene of real panic,” Stephen Schneck, […]
J.D. Vance
We have now entered the “go to hell” phase of the 2024 presidential race
I guess this is a logical outcome when politics becomes spiritual warfare. 🙂 I’ll let Meryl Kornfield of The Washington Post take it from here: Former president Donald Trump’s running mate, Sen. JD Vance of Ohio, doubled down Wednesday on […]
The Catholic faith of JD Vance
Over at The New York Times, Elizabeth Dias profiles the GOP vice-presidential candidate. Here is a taste: In Washington, he connected with a Yale Law alumnus who had become a priest at the Dominican House of Studies. Before joining the […]
JD Vance says Trump will veto a federal abortion ban. What are pro-life evangelicals saying?
On Friday, Donald Trump said that his administration “will be great for women and their reproductive rights.” Conservative evangelicals responded. We covered it here. Today, JD Vance said that if Trump were president and congress sent him a national ban […]
How Harris is transcending Trump
E.J. Dionne is right: The sudden and radical shift in the trajectory of the 2024 campaign owes to more than the replacement of President Joe Biden with Vice President Kamala Harris as the Democratic candidate. To a degree that’s still not fully appreciated, Harris […]
Damon Linker on the post-liberal Catholics driving J.D. Vance and the Trump campaign
Linker compares today’s anti-liberal Catholic conservatives to the liberal Catholic conservatives who gathered around Richard John Neuhaus’s First Things twenty years ago. Linker is well-suited to make such comparisons. He was editor of First Things from 2004 to 2005. After […]
Who are the “elites” in this election?
I’m looking forward to Will Bunch’s column on Tim Walz: And let’s not forget Walz’s master’s degree in educational leadership from Mankato State and Harris’s law degree from the San Francisco campus of the University California law school.
One nerd to rule them all
We can all profitably learn from Tolkien’s work lessons that are politically salient, even if they don’t tell us how to vote and even if it means we are nerds.
J.D. Vance “turns the shame of drinking Mountain Dew into a source of class and race resentment”
Mountain Dew is in the news these days, thanks to vice presidential candidate J.D. Vance. Watch: Over at The Atlantic, Ian Bogost gives us a fascinating history lesson on the drink that got me through a lot of late night […]
Trouble in paradise?
Here is Atlantic writer Tim Alberta on X: More context at The New Republic and here.
“J.D. Vance ain’t from here”
Andy Beshear for vice president? Here is WHAS11 TV in Louisville, Kentucky: Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris Monday morning to take Joe Biden’s place atop the Democratic ticket, but he also had plenty to say about U.S. Sen. […]
The Catholic conversion of J. D. Vance
Now that he is the Republican vice presidential nominee, J. D. Vance is one of the most famous Catholic converts in the United States.
The mind of J.D. Vance
Ian Ward unpacks the intellectual influences that shape the mind of J.D. Vance, Trump’s vice-president pick. They are Notre Dame professor Patrick Deneen, venture capitalist Peter Thiel, blogger Curtis Yarvin, deceased philosopher RenĂ© Girard, writer Sohrab Ahmari, the group of […]
What are evangelicals saying about J.D. Vance’s speech last night?
How are evangelicals responding to J.D. Vance’s speech and night 3 of the GOP convention more generally? It was a very interesting night. Check out our blow-by-blow account here. In the end, very few evangelicals leaders have said much about […]
Live blogging the Faith & Freedom Coalition breakfast with J.D. Vance
Vance, a Catholic, is going to have to win over the Christian Right. (Although I have no doubt that they will all vote for him anyway). This morning he takes his first shot at this important GOP constituency. It’s time […]
What are evangelicals saying about day 1 of the GOP convention, including the VP pick of J.D. Vance?
We live-blogged night one of the Republican National Convention here. There were to highlights: the pick of J.D. Vance as Trump’s running mate and Trump’s first appearance after last weekend’s assassination attempt. Here are what some evangelicals are saying: Anti-Trump […]
If Trump wants to stress national unity after the assassination attempt, I am not sure J.D. Vance is the best pick
Today we are learning that Donald Trump is going to rewrite his acceptance speech to stress national unity. Here is Salena Zito at The Washington Examiner:  Former President Donald Trump has completely rewritten his convention speech in light of the assassination attempt against him on Saturday […]
What J.D. Vance said about Donald Trump on July 4, 2016:
Trump’s vice presidential pick, Ohio Senator J.D. Vance, was once a never-Trumper: On July 4, 2016, Vance wrote an Atlantic piece titled “Opioid of the Masses.” The subtitle was: “To many, Donald Trump feels good, but he can’t fix America’s […]
CURRENT’s past coverage of J.D. Vance
Here is what we have written about Trump’s vice presidential pick: “What does J.D. Vance want? (April 24, 2023) “Ohio Senate candidate Tim Ryan: “I have the privilege to concede this election to J.D. Vance” (November 9, 2023) “The power […]
Trump picks J.D. Vance as his running mate
It’s official. Trump has picked the Ohio Senator as his running mate. Vance has moved from chronicler of Trumpism in Hillbilly Elegy, to a member of the MAGA faithful, to Donald Trump’s running mate. More coming. Stay tuned. Donald Trump […]