JD Vance’s Communion presents itself as a spiritual memoir but functions as a rebranding operation: It’s the same narcissistic trick he played with Hillbilly Elegy.
Who better to sit down with to sort this out than Nathan Evans Fox — country musician, seminary graduate, board-certified hospital chaplain, and actual Appalachian? His review of this gnarly book is one of the sharpest pieces of cultural criticism to emerge from the Trump era.
Nathan and I cover Vance’s blogboy Catholicism, his apologetics-disguised-as-memoir, the aesthetic function of tradcath whiteness, and what it means when a hillbilly chooses empire over solidarity.
Plus: Stephen Miller’s physiognomy lecture at the Rubio terrorism hoedown, and what antifascist parenting looks like when the street goes quiet.
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