This is Brad DeLong's Grasping Reality—my attempt to make myself, and all of you out there in SubStackLand, smarter by writing where I have Value Above Replacement and shutting up where I do not… To J.D. Vance, His Family, & His Staff, Hannukah Is a Subset of ChristmasJimmy Carter tried to make America’s civil religion “Abrahamic”. Dwight D. Eisenhower did make America’s civil religion “Judeo-Christian”. J.D. Vance, his family, and his staff are in the business...Jimmy Carter tried to make America’s civil religion “Abrahamic”. Dwight D. Eisenhower did make America’s civil religion “Judeo-Christian”. J.D. Vance, his family, and his staff are in the business of reversing that:I eagerly look forward to the same “Golden Noël”—with noël brought into English after the Norman Conquest from the Old French nael, a shortening of natalis dies Jusu Christi, the birth day of Jesus Christ—framing for Zoroastrian Shab-e Yalda, RomanSaturnalia, Chinese Dongzhi, Japanese Toji, Scandinavian St. Lucia’s Day, Hopi Soyal, and all the others… If reading this gets you Value Above Replacement, then become a free subscriber to this newsletter. And forward it! And if your VAR from this newsletter is in the three digits or more each year, please become a paid subscriber! I am trying to make you readers—and myself—smarter. Please tell me if I succeed, or how I fail…#j-d-vance |
To J.D. Vance, His Family, & His Staff, Hannukah Is a Subset of Christmas
Saturday, 6 December 2025
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