Episode 4 - Excuse My Privilege: JD Vance’s Hillbilly Elegy (2016)

Published: Dec. 3, 2020, 2 a.m.

In JD Vance’s 2016 memoir Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis, a number of very important socioeconomic issues are discussed, many of which don’t receive the attention they deserve. For this episode, I want to begin to explore the idea of privilege and begin discussing what trying to correct for the mistakes of the past leads to. Note: I forgot to discuss Anacyclosis in this episode! I will discuss it soon though.