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- Quinn Slobodian: Historian of How Capitalism Is Governed
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- If It Happened At All: The Hero System of David Wolpe
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Author Archives: Luke Ford
NYT: ‘Why Virginia Roberts Giuffre Would Not Stop Talking About Jeffrey Epstein’
Amy Wallace writes for The New York Times Oct. 19, 2025: Since 2011, when Ms. Giuffre publicly accused Mr. Epstein (she was the first of his victims to forgo anonymity), she repeatedly revealed — in depositions, lawsuits and interviews — … Continue reading
NYT: ‘Life as a Female Journalist: Hot or Not?’
Amy Wallace wrote Jan. 19, 2014 for The New York Times: LOS ANGELES — IN 2009, I wrote a cover story for Wired magazine about the anti-vaccine movement and profiled Paul Offit, a leading proponent of vaccines for children. Dr. … Continue reading
The Hero System of Journalist Amy Wallace
Amy Wallace wrote the killer 2001 Peter Bart takedown for Los Angeles magazine. She keeps finding the same man. Baz Luhrmann (b. 1962) sits up in bed after noon dreading the universe leaving him behind. Garry Shandling (1949-2016) molts and … Continue reading
The Amy Wax Hero System
Two voices speak in the Amy Wax record. Amy Wax published a book in 2009 that hedged every hard claim it made. Race, Wrongs, and Remedies grants that past discrimination caused present disparities, grants the tort logic behind reparations, cites … Continue reading
The Hero System of Human Rights Scholar Amanda Alexander
Ernest Becker (1924-1974), in The Denial of Death, holds that man is the animal who knows he will die and cannot live with the knowledge. Every culture hands him a hero system, a scheme that lets him earn the feeling … Continue reading
Andrew Gelman’s Hero System
Andrew Gelman built a heroic life out of refusal. Most men earn their standing by claiming, the bold result, the clean finding, the story that lands. Gelman earns his by declining to claim more than the numbers will bear. His … Continue reading
The Internet’s Most Notorious Antisemite Walks into… Lakewood (The Lucas Gage story)
The Hero System of Professor Aaron W. Hughes
Aaron Hughes makes his living by subtraction. He takes a tradition that calls itself ancient and shows it modern, a continuity that calls itself natural and shows it built, an identity that calls itself given and shows it made. The … Continue reading
Philosopher Michael Huemer & The Credit of Appearances
Michael Huemer (b. December 27, 1969) is an American philosopher who has taught at the University of Colorado Boulder since 1998. His writing crosses epistemology, ethics, metaethics, political philosophy, metaphysics, and the philosophy of mathematics. He has authored or co-authored … Continue reading
The Hero System of Professor David N. Myers
His teacher stood in the rubble and called it final. Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi (1932-2009) argued in Zakhor: Jewish History and Jewish Memory that modern critical history broke the link between the Jewish people and its past, that the archive replaced … Continue reading