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Author Archives: Luke Ford
Independent Journalism
The New York Times reports: Striking Down Pentagon Press Limits, Judge Vindicates Independent Journalism The ruling cut deeper than left-versus-right politics, declaring that the policy imposed by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is unconstitutional. Wow! Sounds important. I hear a lot … Continue reading
The Timeless Wisdom of George Shultz
Here are the timestamps and quotes featuring high praise for George Shultz: [00:02:40]: David Fedor describes his first impression: “I saw Schultz around campus talking about energy issues and I thought you know what this guy has his head screwed … Continue reading
What Feels Dangerous Down Here
This is an essay about safety for Americans who can’t spell “safety.” There is a class of American for whom the word safety lands as a provocation. Not because they do not want to be safe. They want it more … Continue reading
Ten Ways to Increase the Experience of Dignity for People Below Average In Intelligence
1. End the phone tree. Answer the phone. The single most concentrated experience of institutional indignity in daily American life is the automated phone system. It communicates, before a single human word is spoken, that your time is worth less … Continue reading
The Optionality Gap: Why Diversity Is a Luxury Good
Robert Putnam did not want to publish his findings. He sat on them for several years after completing his study of forty-one American communities, reportedly because he found the results so politically uncomfortable. What he eventually published in 2007 showed … Continue reading
Pluralism as the Technology of Elite Rule
Elites cannot rule a united people. They can only rule a fragmented one. This is not a cynical observation about elite intentions. It is a structural description of how minority rule sustains itself in a formally democratic system. A genuinely … Continue reading
“Threats to Democracy”: Elite Rhetoric as Fragmentation Defense
When the American expert class warns that democracy is under threat, it is worth asking precisely which democracy it is defending. The answer, examined carefully, is not the democracy of popular sovereignty, the idea that the people govern themselves through … Continue reading
One War, Three Realities: How Expert Coalitions Build the World They Need
The Iraq War did not fail because the intelligence was wrong, though some of it was. It failed because the system that processes intelligence was designed to produce a specific output, and it produced that output faithfully. The people who … Continue reading
Conservative Claims of Cultural Oppression: On the Nature and Origins of “Conservaphobia”
I want Rony Guldmann to tune this book up and publish it already! Claude says: The manuscript is serious, ambitious, and often genuinely compelling. It makes a sustained philosophical argument across three parts and ten chapters about the nature of … Continue reading
The Lucky Country and Its Benevolent Overseers: Safety, Paternalism, and the Australian Difference
Australia banned social media for children under sixteen on December 10, 2025, becoming the first country in the world to enforce a nationwide restriction of this scope. Within a month, 4.7 million accounts had been deactivated or restricted. The communications … Continue reading