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- Rabbi Joshua Weisberg: Torah, Table, and the Inner Life
- Wired: ‘Leak Exposes Members of Peter Thiel’s Secretive ‘Dialog’ Society’
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- Walter J. Ong and the Technology of the Word
- Bruno Latour: The Anthropologist of the Moderns
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- Quinn Slobodian: Historian of How Capitalism Is Governed
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Author Archives: Luke Ford
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
The Publisher Always Wins – A Jill Abramson Biography
Jill Ellen Abramson (b. 1954) stands at the center of the most consequential transition in modern American journalism, the passage from print dominance to digital survival. She becomes the first woman to run the newsroom of The New York Times, … Continue reading
Howard Zinn – The Historian Who Took Sides
Howard Zinn (1922-2010) writes the most widely read radical history in American life and spends fifty years arguing that the historian’s job includes taking sides. He grows up poor, fights in a world war, drops napalm on a French town, … Continue reading
Linton Besser: A Reporter and the Paper Trail
Linton Besser (b. 1976) is an Australian investigative journalist, foreign correspondent, and media critic. He reports on corruption, regulatory failure, corporate misconduct, and the conduct of public institutions. Across newspapers, television, radio, and documentary film he has built a body … Continue reading
Gerald Stone and the Making of Australian Current Affairs
Gerald Louis Stone (1933-2020) reshapes Australian broadcast journalism across the final quarter of the twentieth century. As founding executive producer of the Australian edition of 60 Minutes, he builds a model of television current affairs that joins investigative reporting, international … Continue reading
Paul Barry: A Chronicler of Australian Power
Paul Barry (b. 1952) is an Australian journalist, author, and broadcaster who built a career on the investigation of wealth, power, and institutional accountability. Across more than four decades he became a leading practitioner of investigative reporting in Australia. His … Continue reading
The Dean of Revolutionary Scholarship: Gordon S. Wood, 1933-2026
Gordon Stewart Wood (1933-2026) was a leading historian of America’s founding. For four decades at Brown University he argued that the American Revolution was a transformation in ideas, social relations, and conceptions of equality, not a quarrel over taxes or … Continue reading
The Last Generalist: Bob Ellis and Australian Public Life
Bob Ellis (1942-2016) worked across more fields of Australian public life than any writer of his generation. He wrote novels, plays, screenplays, memoirs, political histories, essays, poetry, songs, and journalism. He directed films. He drafted speeches for premiers and federal … Continue reading
WEHT to Investigative Journalism?
Investigative reporting cost a fortune long before the money dried up. A single story takes months, lawyers, travel, document review, and most of it ends in nothing publishable. Newspapers paid for that out of fat ad revenue and classified monopolies. … Continue reading