By Jules Gomes, PhD, Blog, Souls and Liberty - Will the USA's second family be a model of syncretism or Christianity?... I first met JD Vance in the lobby of the Ritz Carlton Hotel in Washington, DC, in July 2019. He didn't sport a dignified beard then, but he exuded a sense of the purpose-driven life, just as he does today... We were both among several speakers invited to address the National Conservatism Conference — the brainchild of Jewish political philosopher Yoram Hazony, whose book The Virtue of Nationalism was just causing a stir. ...