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Author Archives: Luke Ford
Maggie Haberman’s Hero System
The man who calls her a third-rate reporter calls her, and the two facts are one fact. Maggie Haberman (b. 1973) builds the most consequential franchise in modern political journalism on a single transaction. She takes the call. She pulls … Continue reading
Jonathan Swan’s Hero System
In the Australian party room a prime minister can be finished by Thursday. The numbers move in a corridor, a faction shifts, the caucus votes, and the man who led the country at breakfast clears his desk by dark. Jonathan … Continue reading
Dean Baquet’s Hero System
Dean Baquet (b. 1956) rises from a Creole restaurant family in the Tremé to the top of the most powerful newsroom in the country, without a college degree, on reporting talent and a hard institutional sense. He carries two heroes … Continue reading
The Columbia Journalism Review’s Hero System
The Columbia Journalism Review became the conscience of the journalism profession through the consistent publishing of analysis that served the guild better than any competitor. Founded in 1961 at Columbia’s journalism school, it calls itself the watchdog and friend of … Continue reading
Philosopher Michael Huemer: ‘Don’t Trust the Media’
Huemer writes June 14, 2026: Here is why I don’t trust the media, and you shouldn’t either. As near as I can tell, this is how the system works: Step 1: Something happens in the non-media world. Step 2: A … Continue reading
Amartya Sen: Economics as Moral Inquiry
Amartya Sen (b. November 3, 1933) works as an economist, a philosopher, and a public intellectual, and across more than seven decades he has reshaped how scholars and governments think about welfare, poverty, famine, democracy, justice, and human development. He … Continue reading
Brian Stelter: The Reporter on the Reporters
Brian Stelter (b. 1985) reports on the American news business. He covers the institutions, people, technologies, and incentives that shape journalism, and over two decades he has become a chronicler of the news industry and a media figure in his … Continue reading
Freedom as Non-Domination: The Political Philosophy of Philip Pettit
An Irish-born thinker whose career has crossed Ireland, Britain, Australia, and the United States, Philip Noel Pettit (b. 1945) revived the republican tradition in political theory and redefined political freedom as non-domination rather than mere non-interference. His writing ranges across … Continue reading
Jürgen Habermas: The Unforced Force of the Better Argument
Jürgen Habermas (1929-2026) ranks as the leading German philosopher of the postwar period and the central figure of the Frankfurt School’s second generation. For more than seven decades he defended a single proposition: that free societies can govern themselves through … Continue reading
Avishai Margalit: The Philosopher of Humiliation
Avishai Margalit (b. 1939) is an Israeli philosopher and public intellectual whose work reshaped how moral and political philosophy treats dignity, humiliation, memory, compromise, and betrayal. He spent the core of his career at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and … Continue reading