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The Broken Ideas of JD Vance
Brendan Miller

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I. Vance Speeches and Interviews

JD Vance on Our Civilizational Crisis – Intercollegiate Studies Institute (ISI)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBrEng3xQYo

Interview with The New York Times Magazine – New York Times

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/12/magazine/jd-vance-interview.html

The Road Home Podcast – The Road Home

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9YHNhxXupdY

Jack Murphy Live – Jack Murphy Live

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMq1ZEcyztY

Face the Nation – CBS News

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rPso1-N9O9s

The Universities are the Enemy – National Conservatism Conference

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FR65Cifnhw

CNN Interview on Haitian Immigration – CNN

https://edition.cnn.com/2024/09/15/politics/video/sotu-bash-vance-haitian-immigrants-full-interview

Federalist Radio Hour – The Federalist

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yt4_CdS3Kgs

Interview with Megyn Kelly about Childhood – NBC News

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jv5pGTG_Kjc

Hillbilly Elegy by J.D. Vance (book)

Hillbilly Elegy (Film Trailer, 2020) – Netflix

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KW_3aaoSOYg

Munich Security Conference Speech – Intercollegiate Studies Institute (ISI)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZbsiKEhy-8

Fresh Air Interview – NPR

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VDUxcjxAoO0

Culture and Responsibility Talk – Brookings Institution

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8b8UU2taFE

How I Joined the Resistance – J.D. Vance (USA Today)

https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2017/06/25/how-i-joined-resistance-against-trump-column/103127688/

Seizing Ford Foundation Assets – X

https://x.com/ohiowarroom/status/1443025227106168833?s=12

II. Key Comment Pieces

Vance’s Worldview – John Hendrickson (Politico)

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/07/18/jd-vance-world-view-sources-00168984

Is America a Nation or an Idea? – Yoni Appelbaum (The Atlantic)

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2024/07/america-nation-or-idea-jd-vance-speech/679116/

The VP Choice: Vance vs Walz – PBS

https://www.pbs.org/video/the-vp-choice-vance-vs-walz-sjkaqp/

Criticism of Vance’s Political Shift – David Frum (The Atlantic)

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/07/moral-collapse-jd-vance/619428/

Why the Left Gets J.D. Vance Wrong – Zaid Jilani (Compact Magazine)

https://www.compactmag.com/article/why-the-left-gets-j-d-vance-wrong/

III. Sources for Key Factual Claims

Trump knows nothing about bible

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERUngQUCsyE

Trump: “Not going to Vietnam”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6o8_A8phfc

Establishment Clause: Separation of Church and State – First Amendment Encyclopedia

https://firstamendment.mtsu.edu/article/establishment-clause-separation-of-church-and-state/

List of Hispanic Medal of Honor Recipients – Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Hispanic_Medal_of_Honor_recipients

IV. Sources About the New Right

Why I Am a Liberal National Conservative – Yoram Hazony (The Critic)

https://thecritic.co.uk/why-i-am-a-liberal-national-conservative/

Regime Change: Toward a Postliberal Future – Patrick Deneen

Why Liberalism Failed – Patrick Deneen

Patrick Deneen on Prayer, Sabbath Laws, and Scripture in Public Schools

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdoCacqKVlI&t=420s

Interview with Patrick Deneen on Irreverent Podcast

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0DIS12FgwU0

Not Catholic Enough – Jason Blakely (Commonweal Magazine)

https://www.commonwealmagazine.org/not-catholic-enough

How Christian Is Christian Nationalism? – Kelefa Sanneh (The New Yorker)

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/04/03/how-christian-is-christian-nationalism

Debate: Sohrab Ahmari vs. David French – Catholic University

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAG28K0nGAU

V. Vance on Trump

JD Vance on Trump and Truth

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7x62HdEULI

Vance: “I Can’t Stomach Trump”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQLYLgm0WVs

Vance on Trump’s Victimhood Rhetoric – CNN

https://edition.cnn.com/2024/07/15/politics/video/jake-tapper-jd-vance-interview

Vance on Trump and White Working Class

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IuV8XMCsPmc

Vance: “Lord Help Us” After Trump Tape – X

https://x.com/KFILE/status/1410647434359881732/photo/1

Vance: “God Wants Better of Us” – X

https://x.com/KFILE/status/1410643663609372674/photo/1