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Author Archives: Luke Ford
Forward: LA Orthodox school’s former guidance counselor will avoid jail time in sex abuse case
Louis Keene writes: An Orthodox Jewish high school’s former director of academic support will avoid jail after pleading no contest Thursday to sexual abuse charges involving a student in her charge at the school’s boys’ division. Julie Tichon, 38, was … Continue reading
Paul Craig Roberts: From the Treasury to the Margins
Paul Craig Roberts (b. 1939) built a career that ran from academic economics through the Reagan Treasury to the outer edges of American dissident commentary. He stands among the principal architects of supply-side economics and served as Assistant Secretary of … Continue reading
The Gallery Method: Jonathan Swan and the Craft of Insider Reporting
Jonathan Swan is an Australian journalist who arrived in Washington as a visiting fellow and became a United States citizen. He built his reputation on the oldest tools of the trade: source cultivation, verification, and speed. His career shows how … Continue reading
Maggie Haberman – Taking the Call
Maggie Haberman (b. 1973) became the defining journalist of the Trump era. No other mainstream reporter matched her sustained access to Donald Trump (b. 1946), her volume of consequential stories about him, or her influence over how the press and … Continue reading
Kyle Sandilands and the Economics of Offense
Kyle Dalton Sandilands (b. 1971) dominated Australian breakfast radio for two decades and changed what commercial broadcasting in that country rewards. He built the largest breakfast audience in Sydney through celebrity interviews, sexual confession, manufactured conflict, and a persona that … Continue reading
After the Kings: Ben Fordham and the Remaking of 2GB Breakfast
Ben Fordham (b. 1976) hosts the breakfast program on Sydney radio station 2GB, the most consequential talkback slot in Australian broadcasting. The chair he occupies once belonged to Alan Jones (b. 1941), and before the station consolidations of the early … Continue reading
The Entertainer’s Exemption: John Laws and the Price of Trust
John Laws (1935-2025) dominated Australian commercial talkback radio for longer than any broadcaster in the nation’s history. Across seventy-one years on air, he turned a format built on listener telephone calls into an instrument of political access, commercial persuasion, and … Continue reading
What the Record Shows: David Marr and the Uses of Evidence
Across more than five decades, David Ewan Marr (b. 1947) has worked as an investigative reporter, newspaper editor, biographer, essayist, television presenter, and radio host. His subjects have included a Chief Justice of the High Court, a Nobel laureate in … Continue reading
Peopling the Emptiness: The Life of Patrick White
Patrick White (1912-1990) stands as the central figure of twentieth-century Australian literature and the only Australian to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. Across twelve novels, eight plays, two collections of short fiction, and a memoir, he took a national … Continue reading
Crossing Lines: Nick McKenzie and the Limits of Method
Nick McKenzie (b. 1976) is an Australian investigative journalist whose reporting has exposed corruption, criminal infiltration, foreign interference, military misconduct, and institutional failure at the highest levels of Australian society. Over more than two decades he has become a dominant … Continue reading