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Author Archives: Luke Ford
Late Capitalism
The phrase does several jobs at once. First, it compresses a huge complaint into two words. A broken airline app, a $19 airport sandwich, a self-checkout screen asking for a tip, a corporate memo written in therapy language. All of … Continue reading
Naming Deep Throat
Mark Felt confirmed it himself in Vanity Fair on May 31, 2005. The first man to name him in print was Jack Limpert, the longtime editor of the Washingtonian, who died in 2024 at 90. In the June 1974 issue, … Continue reading
What the Terms of Service Confess
The clearest account of what powerful men believe in 2026 sits in the documents nobody reads. The Terms of Service (for AI chat bots). The usage policies. The safety rules. Skip the press releases and the mission statements. Read the … Continue reading
The Internal Dissident: Michael Anton and the Theory of Regime Conflict
Michael Anton (b. 1969) became a principal interpreter of nationalist conservatism in the United States during the first quarter of the twenty-first century. He did not build a mass movement, win elective office, or found a lasting institution. His influence … Continue reading
The Elon Musk Set
Picture the room first. Elon Musk (b. 1971) sits at the center, and everyone else orients toward him whether they like him or not. The oldest layer comes from PayPal: Peter Thiel (b. 1967), David Sacks (b. 1972), Max Levchin … Continue reading
The Daniel Lurie Set
San Francisco mayor Daniel Lurie (b. 1977) sits at the meeting point of two San Francisco aristocracies. The first is old Bay Area Jewish philanthropic money. His mother, Mimi Haas (b. 1946), owns a large block of Levi Strauss stock … Continue reading
The Dario Amodei Set
Daniela Amodei (b. 1985) represents the AI safety wing of Silicon Valley, a small world that thinks of itself as smaller and more serious than the larger tech industry around it. The core is family and former colleagues. His sister … Continue reading
The Priesthoods of the Bay: High-Status Social Cliques in San Francisco, 2026
San Francisco in 2026 holds a strange position among American cities. It generates capital on a scale no metropolitan economy of its size has matched, and it also generates theories of the future faster than it generates housing. The city … Continue reading
The Omeed Malik Social Set
Omeed Malik (b. 1979) runs with a set that did not exist in its current form ten years ago. It is the new money of the Trump-aligned right, assembled fast after 2020, and it has its own geography, its own … Continue reading
The Archipelago: High-Status Social Cliques in New York, 2026
New York in 2026 has no ruling class. It has a federation of rival enclaves, each one a court, each one convinced its own currency of prestige is the true gold standard. Finance has money. Fashion has taste. Technology has … Continue reading