Thomas-Sox-WorldSeries wrote:
Warren Newson wrote:
Henderson is really making the rounds promoting that book. He's popped up on at least one of the podcasts in my rotation and I've seen him pop up on Twitter from the small handful of people I check in with on that platform.
I heard him on Glenn Lowry's podcast. I sometimes listen to Glenn Lowry because we are both South Side Lowerys, though he can't spell his name and he Black. Henderson was frankly a little dull, and he never accounted for his success. I think he must in the book, though. He also said things about social class that I thought about 25 years ago, and if I am that far ahead of the curve, God save us all.
In fairness, I don't think I got the gist of his book from the podcast, but I may read it, as it is easy reading, which I need right now, viz.
An Ordinary Man by Paul Rusesabagina. Horrific, but you can fly through it. Never saw the movie
Hotel Rwanda, which is based on Rusesabagina's book.
Henderson's book is in the same vein as J.D. Vance's except Henderson is a lot brighter than Vance.
One of the funnier things is that his elite classmates and professors at Yale recommended he watch
The West Wing. It says a lot about the tastes and beliefs of America's upper class. Victor Davis Hanson talks about this kind of elitism all the time, e.g. one guy is a house painter and one guy is a high school teacher and each earns $82,000 a year, but the teacher looks down on the house painter because he spends his money on jet-skis and Disney vacations while the teacher goes to Napa and watches
The West Wing. Which is a shitty TV show.