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Author Archives: Luke Ford
The Warren Buffett Social Set
Warren Buffett (b. 1930) runs a world that prizes one thing above all: being right slowly. The set around him, the Omaha circle, the value-investing faithful, the shareholders who fly in each May, treats patience as the highest virtue and … Continue reading
The Michael Bloomberg Social Set
Michael Bloomberg (b. 1942) sits at the center of a world that runs on competence and money, in that order, though the money makes the competence visible. The set is global, but its capital is Manhattan. Its members come from … Continue reading
The Social Set Around Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan
Mark Zuckerberg (b. 1984) and Priscilla Chan (b. 1985) sit at the center of a Silicon Valley aristocracy that has spent the past two years remaking itself. The set around them is not the old tech philanthropist class of the … Continue reading
The George Soros Social Set
George Soros (b. 1930) built the fortune, and the family now runs on a second-generation logic. The father broke the Bank of England in 1992 and then spent decades giving the money away through the Open Society Foundations, a roughly … Continue reading
The Consensus-Builder: Melinda French Gates and Elite-Network Power
Melinda French Gates (b. 1964) stands among the central architects of twenty-first-century technocratic philanthropy and gender-centered governance reform in the United States. Across three decades she helped turn philanthropy from a charitable enterprise into an integrated system of political influence, … Continue reading
Capital Without Command: The Institutional Career of Laurene Powell Jobs
Laurene Powell Jobs (b. 1963) exercises influence through a coordinated network of philanthropy, investment, media ownership, education reform, and advocacy. The public often frames her through her marriage to Steve Jobs (1955–2011), the Apple cofounder. She was born Laurene Powell … Continue reading
The Battle for Status in the Alexander Technique
The Alexander Technique is a small world, and a poor one. Most teachers work one student at a time, in a quiet room, with their hands. The pay is thin. The rewards that hold the field together are mostly symbolic, … Continue reading
The Battle for Status in the Trauma Industry
The trauma industry has a clinical wing and an academic wing, and the clinical wing is where the money and the fame sit. Its center of gravity is Bessel van der Kolk (b. 1943), a Dutch-born psychiatrist whose The Body … Continue reading
Defending Liberalism by Illiberal Means: The World of Robert Kagan
Robert Kagan (b. 1958) is a leading theorist of American primacy in the decades after the Cold War. He built his career as a historian and essayist who supplied a governing class with the vocabulary it used to interpret its … Continue reading
Murray Bowen and the Family as an Emotional System
Murray Bowen (1913–1990) was a founder of family systems theory. He moved the primary unit of psychological analysis away from the isolated individual and toward the family as an emotional system. Where the dominant Freudian model centered unconscious drives, repression, … Continue reading