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Author Archives: Luke Ford
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
Australian Investigative Journalist Chris Masters: The Man Who Saw In
Chris Masters (b. 1948) stands among the small number of Australian journalists whose work changed the institutions he covered. Across six decades he exposed corruption in police forces, courts, parliaments, and the military, and his reporting triggered royal commissions, criminal … Continue reading
The Unwinder: George Packer and the Study of American Decline
George Packer (b. 1960) is an American journalist, essayist, novelist, and author whose career chronicles the weakening of American institutions, the limits of American power abroad, and the social cost of economic change at home. Over four decades he has … Continue reading
Thomas Edsall: The Reporter Who Treated Politics as a System
Thomas Byrne Edsall (b. August 22, 1941) is an American journalist, author, and academic who has spent more than five decades explaining the structural forces that shape American politics. He writes about political realignment, racial conflict, economic inequality, demographic change, … Continue reading
Ross Douthat and the Persistence of Belief
Ross Gregory Douthat (b. 1979) writes columns, books, and criticism at the intersection of religion, politics, demography, and culture in the United States. He has written a column for The New York Times since 2009, where he is a traditional … Continue reading
Joseph Kahn and the Stewardship of The New York Times
Joseph F. Kahn (b. 1964) edits The New York Times. He holds the position of executive editor, the highest rank in the newsroom, and has held it since June 2022. He directs more than 2,300 journalists and sets the editorial … Continue reading
The Institutionalist: Dean Baquet and the Remaking of American Journalism
As executive editor of The New York Times from 2014 to 2022, Dean P. Baquet (b. 1956) becomes the first Black journalist to run the newsroom of the most influential paper in the United States, and he presides over its … Continue reading