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Author Archives: Luke Ford
Are There Realistic Ways Of Unifying America?
John Mearsheimer (b. 1947) holds that humans are survival-driven social animals who live in groups, that groups need thick shared cultures to function, and that nationalism beats liberal universalism because the nation is the best survival vehicle on offer. David … Continue reading
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Scenes from the Chokepoint Economy
FICTION: 1. Tuesday, 7:42 a.m. Dave Kowalski, 51, regional claims manager, two monitors, a mug that says WORLD’S OKAYEST GOLFER. He presses the power button and Windows tells him it has an update to finish. The bar crawls. He drinks … Continue reading
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Robert Putnam: The Man Who Counted What America Lost
Port Clinton, Ohio, sits on Lake Erie between Toledo and Cleveland, a town of factory workers, farmers, shopkeepers, and professionals. In the 1950s the fathers of its children punched clocks at auto plants and carried United Auto Workers cards, or … Continue reading
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W. Bradford Wilcox: The Sociologist Who Tells America to Get Married
On a spring morning in Charlottesville, students file into a lecture hall at the University of Virginia for a class on the sociology of the family. They are twenty years old. Most come from married parents. Most plan to marry, … Continue reading
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Peter Moskos: The Cop Who Talks to People
The shift begins at 11:39 p.m. That number comes from a labor contract, and it tells you something about police work before you see any of it. Nothing in patrol runs on round numbers. The officer signs out a car, … Continue reading
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Julius Krein
On the night of Tuesday, February 21, 2017, one month after Donald Trump (b. 1946) took the oath of office, a crowd gathered at the Harvard Club of New York on West 44th Street for the launch of a new … Continue reading
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Ryan Burge: The Numbers Man in the Empty Church
On the morning of July 21, 2024, about three dozen people gathered in the sanctuary of First Baptist Church in Mount Vernon, Illinois, a town of 14,000 an hour east of St. Louis. The building had been raised for a … Continue reading
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Emily Oster: The Economist in the Delivery Room
New Haven, 1981. A cassette recorder sits under a crib in the home of two Yale economists. The child in the crib is not yet two. After her parents leave the room, she talks. She reviews the day. She rehearses … Continue reading
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The Most Ridiculous Story Ever Told
Around 2013, a doctoral student took a marker to the wall of his mother's bedroom in a council house in Clapham, South London, and wrote out his ambitions. Jason Arday (b. 1985) was in his late twenties, studying part time, … Continue reading
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Tanner Greer
In March 2026, a private gathering of American technologists heard a talk on China and science. The speaker held no doctorate. He had never taught at a university. His bachelor’s degree came from Brigham Young University–Hawaii, a small Mormon campus … Continue reading
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