Hillbilly Elegy
experiences—I feel overwhelming appreciation for these United States. I know it’s corny, but it’s the way I feel. If Mamaw’s sec ...
foreign-born and another 19 percent said they were unsure—which means that a majority of white conservatives aren’t certain that ...
two of them and excelled at both. He is brilliant, wealthy, and speaks like a constitutional law professor—which, of course, he ...
right as so many people in my community began to believe that the modern American meritocracy was not built for them. We know we ...
we hate her for it—not because we think she’s wrong but because we know she’s right. Many try to blame the anger and cynicism of ...
Only 6 percent of American voters believe that the media is “very trustworthy.”^21 To many of us, the free press—that bulwark of ...
anniversary of 9/11, a documentary about the “unanswered question” of the terrorist attacks, suggesting that the U.S. government ...
will be an electronic device. Multiple friends warned others about this threat via social media. From the popular website World ...
The list goes on. It’s impossible to know how many people believe one or many of these stories. But if a third of our community ...
You can’t believe these things and participate meaningfully in society. Social psychologists have shown that group belief is a p ...
recently quit his job because he was sick of waking up early. I later saw him complaining on Facebook about the “Obama economy” ...
adherents by the day. Here is where the rhetoric of modern conservatives (and I say this as one of them) fails to meet the real ...
increasingly: It’s not your fault that you’re a loser; it’s the government’s fault. My dad, for example, has never disparaged ha ...
studied how Americans evaluated their chances at economic betterment, and what they found was shocking. There is no group of Ame ...
overwhelmingly hopeful about the future. For the first time in my life, I felt like an outsider in Middletown. And what turned m ...
Chapter 12 During my first round of law school applications, I didn’t even apply to Yale, Harvard, or Stanford—the mythical “top ...
one of his law school classmates at a popular D.C. restaurant. She was bussing tables, simply because that was the only job avai ...
I didn’t know the dean of my college at Ohio State. It’s a big place. I’m sure she is a lovely person, and the form was clearly ...
to talk myself into it. I even printed the form and drove it to campus. But when the time came, I crumpled it up and tossed it i ...
an early spring day, 2010, when my phone rang and the caller ID revealed an unfamiliar 203 area code. I answered, and the voice ...
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