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Author Archives: Luke Ford
Decoding Journalism, Decoding Winners From Losers (1-17-24)
01:00 New Yorker: How Ten Middle East Conflicts Are Converging Into One Big War, https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/how-ten-middle-east-conflicts-are-converging-into-one-big-war10:00 Democrats Are Preparing For Donald Trump To Be President Again, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-KxZ8gbp2Y17:00 Amy Wax talks with Richard Hanania, https://www.richardhanania.com/p/amy-wax-versus-the-midwit-gynocrats19:00 Extremely Online: The Untold Story of Fame, … Continue reading
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Extremely Online: The Untold Story of Fame, Influence, and Power on the Internet
The world is a big oozing mess, but to create meaning and order in our lives, we develop and sanctify boundaries between the clean and the dirty, the heroic and the cowardly. Here are some excerpts from this 2023 book … Continue reading
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Why Is The Right So Dumb?
Nathan Cofnas writes: The Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) ranks the world’s universities based on objective criteria such as the number of publications they produce in Nature and Science and how many of their alumni have won Nobel Prizes … Continue reading
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All the News That’s Fit to Click: How Metrics Are Transforming the Work of Journalists
Journalism is judgment about what matters. It is the primary thing we use to see the world beyond our experience. This judgment springs from the particular hero system that made Russiagate the most important news story in America from 2016 … Continue reading
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Did Biographer Doris Kearns Goodwin Sleep With Her Subject LBJ?
Slate: “The best example is Doris Kearns (now Kearns Goodwin), who spent many hours interviewing Lyndon B. Johnson at his Texas ranch. The author probably didn’t help matters by admitting that LBJ liked to climb into her bed for interviews. … Continue reading
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