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Author Archives: Luke Ford
Olivia Nuzzi and the Cost of Access
Olivia Nuzzi (b. 1993) writes about American politics from inside the rooms most reporters watch from the hallway. For seven years she served as Washington correspondent for New York magazine, where she built a reputation on access, scene, and a … Continue reading
The Mark Halperin Trajectory
Halperin admitted to pursuing relationships with junior colleagues and apologized for inappropriate conduct, but he denied the sexual assault claims. That basic split holds to this day. He concedes the lesser charges and disputes the gravest ones. He has not … Continue reading
The Matti Friedman Voice
Matti Friedman (b. 1977) is a Canadian-Israeli journalist, author, and essayist who writes about war, memory, identity, and the construction of public narrative in the modern Middle East. He works at the meeting point of foreign correspondence, literary nonfiction, and … Continue reading
The Pan-European Holocaust: The Scholarship of Matthew Ghobrial Cockerill
Matthew Ghobrial Cockerill is an American historian of Nazi Germany, the Holocaust, and the Second World War. He pursues his doctorate in international history at the London School of Economics and Political Science, where his research treats the relation among … Continue reading
The Joe Pags Show
Joe Pags is Joseph John Pagliarulo (b. 1966), and his sound starts with where he came from. He spent more than a decade behind a TV anchor desk in Michigan and New York before he went back to radio in … Continue reading
The Dana Loesch Show
Dana Loesch (b. 1978) built a voice around contrast. She sounds like a Midwestern mom who also fronts a punk band, and she works that contrast on purpose. The station bios sell her as “young, punk-rock, conservative irreverence,” and that … Continue reading
The Michael Berry Show
Michael Berry (b. 1970) runs one of the more theatrically constructed voices in American talk radio. He grew up in Orange, deep East Texas near the Louisiana line, and he keeps that accent available as an instrument. He can thin … Continue reading
Clay Travis Bio
Clay Travis (b. 1979) is an American sports journalist, broadcaster, author, lawyer, and political commentator. He founded OutKick and co-hosts The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show. His career tracks the erosion of the old borders between sports media, digital … Continue reading
Buck Sexton Bio
Buck Sexton (b. 1981) works as an American conservative broadcaster, political commentator, and author. He co-hosts The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show, the nationally syndicated radio program that took over the time slot of The Rush Limbaugh Show in … Continue reading
How Does A CIA Career Shape A Man?
Ten years inside the CIA does not shape every man the same way. The work pulls different temperaments in different directions. But the habits sink in, and after a decade they stop feeling like habits. They become the man. He … Continue reading