January 1, 2021
Among other momentous events, Ill remember 2020 as the year when, decades after leaving my Ohio hometown, Hollywood brought it back to me. Appropriately, reactions to Ron Howards film, "Hillbilly Elegy," have been about as polarized as the politics that helped turn J.D. Vances memoir into a breakout hit in the 2016 election cycle. As I have written before with unabashed Buckeye pride, Vances memoir about overcoming an impoverished childhood in rural Kentucky and Rust Belt Ohio to graduate from ...