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Author Archives: Luke Ford
Nigel Farage
On the morning of July 7, 2026, Nigel Farage (b. 1964) walked into Reform UK’s headquarters at Millbank, a short walk along the Thames from the Parliament he had spent thirty years attacking and two years occupying. He was sixty-two. … Continue reading
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Bernard Haykel: A Life Between the Text and the Gun
In 1984, a sixteen-year-old boy walked into a firefight in Tripoli, Lebanon. Bernard Haykel (b. 1968) survived by luck. His parents, a French-Lebanese surgeon raised in Guadeloupe and an American mother of Polish descent, had come to Lebanon on their … Continue reading
Walker Connor (1926-2017)
In the summer of 1944, an eighteen-year-old from South Hadley, Massachusetts, enlisted in the United States Army and shipped out to the South Pacific. South Hadley was a paper-mill town on the Connecticut River, Catholic and working class in large … Continue reading
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Benedict Anderson and the Nation as Imagination
Cambridge, November 1956. Students from India and Ceylon marched through the streets to protest the Anglo-French attack on Egypt. A crowd of English undergraduates, big men from the boat clubs and rugby fields, fell on them and started swinging. Benedict … Continue reading
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Anthony D. Smith: The Student Who Kept the Question and Rejected the Answer
On the evening of October 24, 1995, two men faced each other at the University of Warwick. The older man, Ernest Gellner (1925-1995), had fled Prague as a boy ahead of the Nazis, fought his way back into Europe with … Continue reading
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Ernest Gellner
Ernest Gellner (1925-1995) died at the Prague airport on Sunday, November 5, 1995. He had just flown back from a meeting of the Central European University Senate in Budapest, and the heart attack struck him a month and four days … Continue reading
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Eric Kaufmann: The Man Who Made the Majority Visible
On the evening of February 22, 2024, more than eighty people gathered at the Legatum Institute, a think tank housed in a Mayfair townhouse a short walk from Grosvenor Square. The crowd ran to politicians, journalists, think tank directors, and … Continue reading
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Dominic Cummings: A Biography
The chief adviser arrived half an hour late to his own press conference. It was May 25, 2020, a hot bank holiday Monday, and Dominic Cummings (b. 1971) walked out of the back of 10 Downing Street into the rose … Continue reading
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Steve Lopez: The Last City Columnist
Around noon on a drizzly late-winter day in 2005, a newspaper columnist walking through Pershing Square in downtown Los Angeles heard music. He followed the sound past the office workers with their lunch bags and found a man standing beside … Continue reading
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California Historian Kevin Starr
On June 25, 1978, Harvey Milk (1930-1978) stood before hundreds of thousands of people at San Francisco City Hall and named his enemies. He named Anita Bryant (1940-2024), the singer who had led the campaign to repeal a gay rights … Continue reading
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