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Author Archives: Luke Ford
Scenes from the 85 IQ Life
FICTION: 1. Bobby Hutchins, 26, sits at the library computer with a paper resume his sister typed and no way to hand it to anyone. The distribution center hires through a portal. The portal wants an account, an email confirmation, … Continue reading
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Scenes from the Passport Question
FICTION: 1. Vienna, March 1938. Ruth Steiner’s grandmother, then nineteen, stands in a queue outside a consulate with her father, who holds a folder of documents against his chest under his coat. The family business is gone as of Tuesday. … Continue reading
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Scenes from Human Resources
FICTION: 1. Tuesday, 4:15 p.m. Priya Nair, 34, financial analyst, sits in a conference room with glass walls and tells the HR business partner about her director. The pattern took her six months to name: credit lifted from her models, … Continue reading
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Scenes from the Unsubscribe Economy
FICTION: 1. Sunday night, 10:20 p.m. Dave Kowalski decides he watches Prime Video four times a year and pays for it twelve. He logs in. Signing up for Prime took one click. He remembers the click. It sat under the … Continue reading
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Donny Pauling: The Producer Who Sold His Repentance
The studio sat above a sandwich shop in downtown Chico. A young woman climbing the stairs in, say, 2003 entered a room arranged to answer her doubts before she voiced them. Framed photographs showed the proprietor beside celebrities. A woman, … Continue reading
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Are There Any Serial Killers In 90035?
Claude working memo, July 23, 2026. Data: LAPD Crime Data from 2020 to Present (city open data portal snapshot), 1,004,989 incident records, January 1, 2020 through May 29, 2025. One caveat governs everything: LAPD switched records systems in March 2024, … Continue reading
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Karl Taro Greenfeld: The Brother, the Correspondent, the Fire
At half past midnight on New Year’s Day 2025, Karl Taro Greenfeld (b. 1964) stood outside his house at the top of Paseo Miramar in Pacific Palisades and watched a hill glow orange. His neighbors Jerry and Emily drove home … Continue reading
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Bret Stephens
The boy rode to school through Mexico City traffic while his father talked. Charles Stephens (b. 1937) taught history at the University of the Americas and used the drive to rehearse his lectures. Munich. Yalta. The show trials. The gulag. … Continue reading
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My Stanley Fish Reading List
Is There a Text in This Class? (1980). The interpretive communities book. His argument that meaning comes from communities of readers rather than from texts or authors connects to everything I write about coalitions and knowledge production. There’s No Such … Continue reading
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Why So Much Elite Enthusiasm For The Odyssey?
I haven’t seen the film. Nothing I’ve heard about it moves me to see it. The reviews came in around 98 percent on Rotten Tomatoes and an 88 on Metacritic, with the film opening to $124 million, Nolan’s best debut … Continue reading
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