By Michelle Goldberg / The New York TimesIn “Hillbilly Elegy,” the 2016 memoir that made J.D. “With Steve, a midlife-crisis sufferer with an earring to prove it, I pretended earrings were cool; so much so that he thought it appropriate to pierce my ear,” Vance wrote. But there is something particularly extreme about Vance’s transformation, suggesting he hasn’t left behind the mutability that once served as a survival strategy. In 2020, Vance wrote an essay detailing his journey from Pentecostalism through the new atheism of Christopher Hitchens and finally into Catholicism. Thiel “was possibly the smartest person I’d ever met, but he was also a Christian,” Vance wrote.

Source: New York Times July 30, 2024 08:34 UTC