“... the billionaire co-founder of PayPal, is a disciple of Straussianism, and his protégé J.D. Vance has spoken at Claremont Institute events. The attempted election grab of 2020-21 has been described as ‘a coup in search of a legal theory’: John Eastman, the director of the Claremont Centre for Constitutional Jurisprudence, provided the theory in a ...”

“... up a pro-Reform think tank called the Centre for a Better Britain, has been a close friend of J.D. Vance since 2019; last year, Politico described him as the vice president’s ‘English philosopher king’. According to a leaked document published by the Sunday Times, the CBB is seeking to raise £25 million before the next election, including from sources ...”

“... the anti-eugenics arguments of the 1970s. With Trump’s re- election on a ticket with J.D. Vance, an obsession with the ‘great replacement theory’ is now at the heart of executive power. Like Trump, Vance is a creature of finance who presents himself as something else. He has benefited both from a fiscal ...”

“... from lower courts. No one seemed certain how long Trump would listen to the courts anyway. J.D. Vance, in a frequently quoted podcast from 2021, said he hoped Trump would ‘fire every single mid-level bureaucrat, every civil servant in the administrative state.’ He added: ‘When the courts stop you, stand before the country, like Andrew Jackson did, and ...”

“... Men’ to study male ‘syntax, language and content’.Among my friends, the sort of women J.D. Vance likes to mock as miserable losers, the male loneliness crisis became a bitter joke. We discussed possible cures: becoming a Deadhead, getting into cycling, poker nights. We made approving comments when we saw straight guys doing things together, like the ...”

“... be depicted by Don DeLillo and others as transmission belts of paranoia and confusion. Unlike J.D. Vance and conservative podcasters such as Ben Shapiro and the late Charlie Kirk, Updike was never in thrall to American exceptionalism. He never longed to return to an imaginary yesteryear when everyone knew their place and personal pronouns were as distinct as a ...”

“... in which it is argued the wrong people have been losing’. (The problem with globalisation, J.D. Vance said recently, wasn’t that it was unfair, but that it was causing rich countries such as America to lose their place at the top of the international pecking order.) Yet, as it turns out, its real economic benefits can be relatively meagre (average incomes ...”

“... idiotic moral crusade. He cleaved to the views of those in the US – such as Elon Musk and J.D. Vance – who had decided that Zelensky and his European dupes were the real menace. War has a nasty habit of revealing where British political figures really stand on the question of the country’s relationship with Europe because it also means confronting ...”

“... all.’ Altman can’t possibly think that typing a few words into an image generator – ‘J.D. Vance kissing a frog in the style of Studio Ghibli’ – is a form of creativity. His advisers would certainly have told him Miyazaki’s views, if he didn’t already know them. In saying what he did, was Altman displaying the boyish enthusiasm of a 40-year-old ...”

“... are as likely to associate America with Coltrane, Kendrick Lamar and Beyoncé as with Trump, J.D. Vance, Pete Hegseth and Stephen Miller. Like Beauvoir and James, they know that another country exists in America, one that’s immediately evident when you walk into a bookshop in Paris, Berlin or Madrid stocked with translations of Baldwin, Audre Lorde, bell ...”

“... as a possible prime minister: in 2011, in a Romanian newspaper that ran photos of him practising judo under the headline ‘See why technocrat Călin Georgescu is called “Putin of Romania”,’ and in 2016, by the Russian propaganda channels Sputnik and RT. Other than that, and a thin résumé of government posts a generation ago, his public career has ...”

“... came – the equivalent of a crowd of 450,000 in London. A week later, it was announced that Usha Vance, wife of the American vice president, J.D. Vance, planned to attend the Avannaata Qimussersua dog sled race that Henrik Jensen hoped to compete in. A group of US officials had decided to come to Greenland without being ...”