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- Bruno Latour: The Anthropologist of the Moderns
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- Quinn Slobodian: Historian of How Capitalism Is Governed
- Jamie Martin: Historian of Sovereignty, Empire, and the World Economy
- Strange bedfellows: the Alliance Theory of political belief systems
- Mordecai Finley and the Hero System of the Soul
- Looking for Lost Jews
- James Boyd White & the Legal Imagination
- Katrina Forrester: Climate Activist, Political Theorist, Intellectual Historian and Public Intellectual
- Michael Kammen and the Making of American Cultural History
- H. L. A. Hart: A Life in Law and Philosophy
- Robert Dahl, from Pluralist Optimism to the Problem of Economic Power
- If It Happened At All: The Hero System of David Wolpe
- Dark Idealism
- Refusal of Status is Status
- Learning for its Own Sake
- Try That in a Small Town
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* If Tatiana Schlossberg were “Tatiana Smith” (12-30-25)
* ‘I’m So Trained’: How The Credential Society Burned Down the Palisades (12-28-25)
* Status Closure and The Lost Generation (12-25-25)
* The Bondi Massacre (12-15-25)
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Author Archives: Luke Ford
Jordan Peterson: A Life
Jordan Bernt Peterson (b. 1962), a Canadian psychologist who began in the study of personality and belief and later became a public figure in arguments over speech, education, and the cultural foundations of the West, built a body of work … Continue reading
Dennis Prager and the Clarity
He slips in the shower. November 13, 2024. The back of his head meets the edge of the tub, and the cord at the C3 and C4 vertebrae takes the blow. The man who spent fifty years telling Americans that … Continue reading
NYP: SPLC boss Heidi Beirich funneled $1.2 million to lover in neo-Nazi group — pair even had joint bank account
Chadwick Moore writes: A top Southern Poverty Law Center official is accused of helping funnel $1.2 million in donor money to an informant in the National Alliance white supremacist group — who was also allegedly her lover. The Department of … Continue reading
David Stahel and the Wehrmacht Myth
A lieutenant rides in the back of a staff car east of Minsk in July 1941. The road behind him holds a captured Soviet army, a pocket closed, a victory the field bulletins already call decisive. He has seen the … Continue reading
The David Garrow Hero System
David Garrow stands where two worlds meet that no longer trust each other. He came up inside the civil rights history establishment and won its highest prize. He ends up in the magazines that establishment scorns. His social set runs … Continue reading
The David Horovitz Hero System
In September 2025 David Horovitz (b. 1962) flies into Damascus. He travels with a group of rabbis and American Jews whom the new Syrian foreign ministry has invited, in the weeks after the Assad regime fell. He is among the … Continue reading
The Dennis McDougal Hero System
He Gathered People First: Dennis McDougal and Janet Malcolm Janet Malcolm opens The Journalist and the Murderer with the hardest sentence ever written about the trade. The journalist, she says, is a kind of confidence man who preys on the … Continue reading
The Buffered, The Porous & The Political
I often investigate topics via Google and it is fun to see my work cited and explained. Gemini says today: The concepts of the “buffered” versus “porous” self come from philosopher Charles Taylor’s seminal work, A Secular Age. Blogger and … Continue reading
Successful Journalists on Substack Don’t do Much Journalism
Look at who earns the money. The biggest news Substack is Heather Cox Richardson, about a million dollars a month from close to three million subscribers, and she writes no original reporting. She explains the day’s news through a historian’s … Continue reading
Journalist Amy Wallace Consistently Chooses Sides
Read Amy Wallace the usual way and she has a value. Truth over comfort, sympathy for the one the world has flattened, the witness who cannot be bought. David Pinsof’s Alliance Theory says there is no such value, in her … Continue reading