Inside JD Vance’s Post-Liberal Catholic Brain Trust

They aren’t household names — but they made JD Vance, are shaping the soul of the new American Right, and are trying to make him the next president of the United States.

Dear friends —

Happy Friday. Today’s essay is the fourth in our ongoing series on the religious and political formation of Vice President J.D. Vance — a formation that continues to shape the direction of Catholic life in American politics, often in ways that unsettle the very tradition it claims to uphold.

In Installment One, we traced Vance’s 2019 entry …