This Woman Could Play a Key Role in a JD Vance Administration

Through writing, investing, and memes, Katherine Boyle is hoping she can conjure a new America that looks a lot like the old one.

In college, I wanted to write my senior thesis on Phyllis Schlafly, the Reaganite political activist who helped defeat the Equal Rights Amendment. My advisor told me the topic didn’t constitute his idea of “Sociology,” so I ended up writing about congressional voting patterns instead. (?!)

I have often wondered since, what could be more sociologically compelling than a woman who uses a traditionally male form of power to advocate for a return to traditional gender roles?

This week I got to scratch that old itch a bit, by publishing my profile of Katherine Boyle, a defense tech investor, traditionalist, close ally of JD Vance, and powerful communicator for the New Right, in the New York Times.

I met Katherine this summer, and learned more about how she has helped solidify the MAGA alliance with the tech industry, and her vision for a renewed America that sounds awfully familiar from the past. Among other things, she wants to raise the birth rate, bring back the draft, and restore industrial and defense manufacturing in America. I also heard a rumor among some tech industry sources that she might have political ambitions of her own.

Boyle emphatically denied that rumor to me in our interview, but a State Department official I spoke to warned me not to think so literally in terms of her potential impact on the country’s future: “I think if you’re looking at her project as a policy project, you’re not really understanding it. Her project is ultimately civilizational.”

One way or another, she’s definitely one to keep an eye on in the lead-up to 2028. Read the full story here!