J.D. Vance 
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SOURCE: N + 1
4/20/2023
What's Driving J.D. Vance?
by Gabriel Winant
J.D. Vance rose to fame through a book that was heavy on popular psychology and self-help tropes while skirting systemic analysis of poverty and social change. As the Senator now careens hard to the right, a historian decides to evaluate him on his own terms.
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SOURCE: The Atlantic
7/14/2021
The Moral Collapse of J. D. Vance
by Tom Nichols
The "Hillbilly Elegy" author's standing as an honest voice on the right vanished as he decided embracing Trumpism was necessary for his Senate campaign.
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SOURCE: Vox
11/10/2020
Everything About Netflix’s Hillbilly Elegy Movie Is Awful (Review)
"It strips out Vance’s sociopolitical commentary entirely, which, however you feel about the commentary, leaves the story without an all-important ingredient: a political and sociological point."
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