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or follow us at Death Panel underscore. So today I'm here with my co-hosts, Bill Rocco.

Hey.

And Abby Cardis. Hello.

And the three of us are joined by returning guests and friend of the panel, Gabe Wynent.

Gabe is a historian of the social structures of inequality in modern American capitalism,

an assistant professor of history at the University of Chicago, and the author of the

fantastic book, The Next Shift, The Fall of Industry, and the Rise of Healthcare in Restbell,

America.

And we've asked Gabe back on the show today to talk about a recent piece

that he wrote for N Plus One called J.D. Vance Changes the subject. Gabe, welcome back to the show.

It's so nice to have you on to talk about your work again. Thanks for having to be. Great to be back.

So this piece that we're talking about today that you wrote for N Plus 1, it's obviously about J.D. Vance.

And for listeners who don't know who J.D. Vance is, he is a conservative American superstar,

a first-term Republican senator for the state of Ohio. And he's a wealthy Yale-educated,

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