Hillbilly Elegy has become an important part of our public discourse, so Dr. Laurie Johnson is going to dedicate a public book club to this 2016 book. She’ll go chapter by chapter through the book, giving a picture of what JD Vance is saying, from her perspective. Along the way, she’ll be looking at the public comments on the Maurin Academy’s Political Philosophy YouTube channel and responding to them in the next video. Her upcoming book, The Gap in God’s Country: A Longer View on Our Culture Wars, deals with many of the problems depicted in Vance’s book, and experienced in his upbringing, so she will have a lot to say. She is also of Scotch-Irish heritage, like JD Vance. Get ready to learn more about JD Vance’s perspective on the people in the Rust Belt. The first video, covering the introduction to the book, comes out this Saturday!