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Author Archives: Luke Ford
The Translator: David Klinghoffer and the Argument Against Materialism
David Klinghoffer (b. 1965) works as a journalist, editor, and cultural critic. For more than three decades he has argued that modern science has overreached its proper boundary and turned itself from a method of inquiry into a comprehensive picture … Continue reading
The Norm Explainers
Stephen P. Turner (b. 1951) sets a hard test in Mad Hazard: A Life in Social Theory and in the work behind it, and most thinkers fail it. The argument he is best known for, in Explaining the Normative, attacks … Continue reading
Show Me How It Travels
Stephen P. Turner (b. 1951) spent a career taking apart a single habit of mind. Social theory keeps reaching for hidden collective things to explain what men do. Tacit knowledge. Shared practices. Norms. Culture. Social imaginaries. Group minds. A scholar … Continue reading
The Cost of Refusing the Misunderstanding Myth
Most intellectuals hold a flattering belief. They think the world breaks because people fail to understand things. Fix the understanding and you fix the world. Polarization comes from bias. Bigotry comes from ignorance. War comes from miscalculation. The intellectual, the … Continue reading
Richard B. Spencer: The Man Who Branded the Alt-Right
Richard Bertrand Spencer (b. 1978) is an American White nationalist, political organizer, publisher, and commentator. For a few years in the middle of the last decade he served as the public face of the movement called the alt-right, a coalition … Continue reading
Michael Wolff and the Sociology of Power
Michael Wolff (b. 1953) writes about power. For five decades he has studied the men who own and run American media, and through them the politicians, financiers, and celebrities whose reputations the press builds and breaks. He occupies a strange … Continue reading
Who Sees First: Michael Lewis and the Sociology of Expertise
Michael Lewis (b. 1960) writes nonfiction for a mass readership, and across four decades he has built a body of work that reads, in sum, as a study of how institutions know things and how they fail to know them. … Continue reading
Robert Draper and The Grandson’s Question
Robert Draper (b. 1959) reports on American institutions under stress. His career runs more than three decades, and across it he builds a form of political journalism that joins narrative craft, elite access, institutional history, and political sociology. Many political … Continue reading
Caffeine, Vulnerability and the Mickey
When I feel good, I’m outgoing and I like to tease people. As long I’m cashing regular checks, everything amuses me. Down under, we call it taking the mickey. My day started out great. I had big plans. The world … Continue reading
Centering Marginalized Voices
Picture a weekly desk that takes the prestige press, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, the Financial Times, lifts out their house phrases, and renders them into plain speech. The desk … Continue reading