Tag: JD Vance
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Hillbilly Elegy
Ron Howard’s Hillbilly Elegy was never just a bad film. It was an artifact of a broader failure — the inability of America’s dominant elites to speak across the country’s fracture lines. Howard brought his Blue America toolkit: polished narrative arcs, Oscar-ready casting, and the belief that empathy is itself a cure. His film told…
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The Great Atlantic Dog Show
I arrived in Brussels at dawn, trailing the scent of duty-free bourbon and whatever questionable chemicals I’d ingested somewhere over the Atlantic. The city had the feel of an overgrown bank lobby, marble and bureaucracy stretching endlessly in every direction, occupied by men who had long since traded their souls for mid-tier diplomatic immunity. It…