JD Vance

MAGA has been a largely white movement of non-urban people who seem to think that people unlike them are scary and that there is only safety in homogeneity.

Far from a novel form of populism, J. D. Vance’s appeals are indistinguishable from the economic vision of the 1970s John Birch Society.

"Hillbilly Elegy" has been used to explain the 2016 election, but its logic is rooted in a dangerous myth about race in Appalachia.

Trump's second term echoes 19th-century policies: tariffs and immigration limits protect workers, while deregulation risks widening inequality.

The former president’s grotesque demagoguery is just the latest in a long line of vicious attacks on residents and immigrants from the island nation.

Revisiting the Agrarian-Distributists and their fabrication of an American past.

Capturing the 1968 DNC.

J.D. Vance's "Hillbilly Elegy" and Steven Stoll's "Ramp Hollow" both remind us that the history of poor and migratory people in Appalachia is a difficult story to tell.

A region that outsiders love to imagine but can’t seem to understand.

A spate of new books explores the composition and motivations of the demographic that has been credited with electing Trump.

How the silent majority became a loud and angry minority.

Contrary to both far right and mainstream center-left, there’s no epidemic of chosen childlessness.

The vibes right now are very "Texas Chain Saw Massacre."

A truly Christian postliberalism would imagine and enact an alternative modernity with a different standard of progress.

It’s time to care for the community—not cleanse it.

Criticisms of women without biological children define motherhood too narrowly, as history reveals the many forms of motherhood.

The Trump campaign is signaling that it intends to make the U.S. a "Christian nation." Here's what that idea looked like in history.

This election year, two women of South Asian descent—Kamala Harris and Usha Vance—take center stage. What can their identities tell us about their approach?

In the early 19th century, US elites demonized the self-liberated slaves of the Haitian Revolution as dangerous practitioners of barbaric rituals.

An expert on white nationalism explains how such demonizing rhetoric incubates and spreads—and what sets this particular episode apart.