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Author Archives: Luke Ford
Interrupt Your Friends When They Repeat Themselves
You usually do people a favor when you stop them from repeating themselves. You minimize the embarrassment of their bad behavior, you minimize your own resentment of their wasting your time, and you provide them with valuable social cues. Men … Continue reading
Facebook Sucks
It’s frustrating using Facebook because it is just so slow. Writing, clicking on notifications and chats take way too long. It’s the slowest of the major social media platforms. Why is that? I find value in checking it occasionally to … Continue reading
With AI, I Can Become the Editor of my Dreams
When I harness the power of AI, I feel like I am the equal of David Remnick, the editor of The New Yorker. I hand off assignments on whatever interests me at the moment they interest me and then I … Continue reading
The Premier League and the Making of a Global Football Public in the United States
Over the past decade, the English Premier League has become a fixture of American life. In the early 1990s English football sat at the margin of American attention. Beyond immigrant communities, a small core of soccer devotees, and a scattering … Continue reading
Gabriella Turnaturi and the Sociology of Uncertainty
Italian sociologist Gabriella Turnaturi (b. 1944) at the University of Bologna writes about emotion, imagination, uncertainty, memory, and intimacy. Where many of her contemporaries studied institutions, class structures, bureaucracies, and rational choice, Turnaturi turns toward the fragile and unpredictable parts … Continue reading
Filling the Silence: Henry Blofeld and the End of a Broadcasting Tradition
Henry Blofeld (b. 1939) is an English institution and a model for my life. His career runs across the second half of the twentieth century and into the twenty-first, and it touches the decline of the English landed gentry, the … Continue reading
Orthodox Boys & The Champions League Final
Around Los Angeles this morning, hundreds of Orthodox boys had one priority — getting the score of the Champions League final from the gentile security guard. I’m used to boys wanting the Dodger score and the Lakers score, but the … Continue reading
The Will to Meaning: The Life of Viktor Frankl
Viktor Frankl (1905-1997) was born in Vienna on March 26, 1905, the second of three children in a Jewish family of modest means. His father, Gabriel, worked as a civil servant in the ministry of social affairs, a disciplined man … Continue reading
Christopher Lasch and the Crisis of Self-Government
Christopher Lasch (1932-1994) trained as a historian, but his work grew into a broad inquiry into the cultural, moral, and psychological foundations of democratic life. Readers remember him first for The Culture of Narcissism (1979), a book that won the … Continue reading
Reading as Revelation: The Intellectual World of Harold Bloom
Across a career that ran more than six decades, Harold Bloom (1930-2019) reshaped the academic study of literature, and mounted the last sustained defense of aesthetic judgment as the proper task of criticism. He wrote as a theorist of influence, … Continue reading