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Author Archives: Luke Ford
Memory as Statecraft: The Work of Sheila Miyoshi Jager
Sheila Miyoshi Jager (b. 1963) writes history at the intersection of war and memory. She holds the chair in East Asian studies at Oberlin College, and she has spent more than two decades on a single question. How do nations … Continue reading
Sydney and Melbourne Talkback: A Comparative History, 1967 to 2026
The convict-versus-free-settler story is the explanation Australians reach for first about almost any difference between the two cities, and that is the warning sign. It explains too much. Transportation to New South Wales ended in 1840. Talkback as a legal … Continue reading
The Code: Power, Privacy, and the Closed Rooms of Melbourne
Melbourne runs on a colder grammar than Sydney. Sydney shows its wealth in harbour light, skin, and water frontage. Melbourne hides power behind brick and rain, behind clubs and law and football boxes and family names spoken at lower volume. … Continue reading
Invisible Sydney: The Cliques and Closed Rooms of a Harbour Aristocracy
Sydney runs on water and on memory. The city sorts its elite less by spectacle than by anchorage, and the highest standing belongs to the man who looks permanently moored: the right school behind him, the right board beneath him, … Continue reading
The Emotional Palettes of Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide and Perth
Brisbane carries the mood of a slow Sunday in the subtropics. Heat and humidity slow a man down and loosen his hurry. The brown river bends through the center and sets the pace. Colors run warm: jacaranda purple, river water … Continue reading
The Emotional Palettes of Portland, Seattle and Vancouver
Portland runs in moss green and rust. Wet cedar, coffee black, the brown of secondhand wool, the gray-blue of rain pooling on the Willamette, the pale amber of a bar lamp seen through a fogged window. Light comes down through … Continue reading
New Yorker: Malcolm Gladwell on the seductive appeal—and shaky science—behind the F.B.I.’s criminal profilers and their “mind reading.”
Malcolm Gladwell wrote in 2007: Douglas and Ressler didn’t interview a representative sample of serial killers to come up with their typology. They talked to whoever happened to be in the neighborhood. Nor did they interview their subjects according to … Continue reading
The Peter Baker Social Set
Peter Baker (b. 1967) and Susan Glasser (b. 1969) sit at the center of a Washington social and journalistic set with clear contours. He is chief White House correspondent for The New York Times. She is a staff writer at … Continue reading
The Emotional Palettes Of San Diego, Los Angeles, San Francisco & Sacramento
San Diego paints in soft pastels. Sun-bleached cream, eucalyptus green, sandstone gold, the muted teal of the Pacific seen from a cliff in La Jolla. Light arrives filtered through ocean air and looks permanently late-afternoon, even at noon. Visible stress … Continue reading