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Author Archives: Luke Ford
Professional Moral Grammars in the United States
Work shapes my instinctive reactions because I have spent more of my adult life working than in any other activity. Everything I do affects me, and the length of time I spend in a setting approximates the amount of rewiring … Continue reading
The Moral Grammars of London, Paris, Sydney, Melbourne, Tokyo
These cities rank among the world’s great urban centers. Each holds deep reserves of capital, talent, institutions, and prestige. Yet they do not reward the same virtues. A man who rises with ease in one city may stall in another, … Continue reading
From Elegy to Governance: An Intellectual Biography of JD Vance
JD Vance (b. 1984) comes out of the post-industrial Midwest, the American military, elite higher education, Silicon Valley venture capital, and the populist realignment of the Republican Party. His rise reads like a story of a social diagnosis turning into … Continue reading
Liah Greenfeld: The Theorist Who Made Nationalism the Cause of Everything
Few scholars still attempt what Liah Greenfeld (b. 1954) has built across four decades: a single account of how the modern world came to be. She works across sociology, history, political theory, economics, and psychology, and she returns again and … Continue reading
Moral Grammars of American Elite Life: Four Cities and Four Accounts of Legitimate Influence
From a distance, American elite life looks like one culture. Up close it splits into rival moral orders, and the clearest fault lines run between cities. New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Washington each reward a different virtue, punish … Continue reading
Left, Right & Essentialism
Start with the folk map. The left builds on social construction. The right builds on nature. On sex, race, crime, intelligence, the right reaches for biology and a fixed human nature while the left reaches for structure and environment. By … Continue reading
What’s Wrong With This Fake Monet?
Scott Aaronson writes: I came across what I consider one of the greatest social experiments of all time, one that illuminates people’s reactions to every AI advance. A Twitter/X user named JediWolf displayed the following AI-generated fake “Monet painting,” and … Continue reading
The Smell Test
My friend Bob* just started driving for Uber. He says: “If you tell me what someone smells like, I’ll tell you who they are, their social class, their problems. If low class had a smell, it would be strawberry vape … Continue reading
Rodney Martin & Press TV
Rodney Martin (b. 1969) lives north of Los Angeles. He retired in 2009 from a firm that did land development and government relations, and he served for a time on the staff of a U.S. Congressman handling military and veteran … Continue reading
E. Michael Jones, Culture Wars & Iran
Author E. Michael Jones sits at the center of a small, dense world run out of South Bend, Indiana. He founded Culture Wars magazine as Fidelity in 1981, then renamed it after he borrowed Bismarck's word Kulturkampf to name the … Continue reading