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Author Archives: Luke Ford
Adam Davidson and the Narrative Reconstruction of Economic Journalism
Adam Davidson (b. 1970) belongs to the generation of American journalists who rebuilt public economic explanation after the financial crisis of 2008. He produced no original economic theory and practiced no technical financial reporting. His contribution lies in narrative form. … Continue reading
The Philologist’s Conspiracy: Revilo P. Oliver and the Migration of Classical Scholarship into American Extremism
Revilo Pendleton Oliver (1908-1994) trained as a classical philologist and ended as an intellectual architect of American white nationalism. His life joins two worlds that historians usually keep apart. One is the prewar humanistic academy of textual scholarship and Renaissance … Continue reading
From Danger Room to Rolling Stone: Noah Shachtman and the Digital Transformation of the American Newsroom
Noah Shachtman (b. 1977) belongs to the cohort of American journalists formed during the passage from the industrial newspaper to the networked information economy. His career tracks the rise of online national security reporting after 9/11 and the wider erosion … Continue reading
Lawrence Wright and the Closed World
Lawrence Wright (b. 1947) fuses investigative reporting, literary journalism, theatrical writing, screenwriting, and religious inquiry into a single narrative method. Across four decades, Wright has emerged as a major interpreter of modern institutions under strain. His books treat terrorism, intelligence … Continue reading
Bryan Burrough and the Architecture of American Power
Bryan Burrough’s (b. 1961) career maps the rise and contraction of prestige print journalism and documents transformations within American elite life across finance, federal law enforcement, radical politics, regional mythology, and corporate culture. Born in Memphis and raised largely in … Continue reading
Mark Bowden: Cartographer of Institutions Under Stress
Mark Bowden (b. 1951) belongs to the last generation of American narrative journalists trained inside the metropolitan newspaper before its economic collapse. His career maps the migration of long-form reportage from the city desk to the national magazine to the … Continue reading
Matt Labash and the End of the Magazine Era
Matt Labash (b. 1970) trained in journalism at the University of New Mexico, graduating in 1993, and entered the profession during the closing decade of an editorial economy capable of sustaining ambitious long-form nonfiction. He joined The Weekly Standard at … Continue reading
Sam Harris and the Secular Mind
Samuel Benjamin Harris (b. 1967) hosts a popular podcast and meditation app. With a PhD in neuroscience from UCLA, he’s best known as a critic of religion. Harris was born in Los Angeles. His father, Berkeley Harris (1935 to 1984), … Continue reading
‘Toward a Theory of Cultural Trauma’
Yale sociologist Jeffrey C. Alexander published this valuable decoding essay in the 2004 book Cultural Trauma and Collective Identity. He shows that group trauma claims are not automatic. They do not simply follow from the severity of a trauma. Instead, … Continue reading
The Buffered Economist and the Porous Citizen: How Market Liberalism Mistakes What Human Beings Are
The modern defense of free trade rests on a tacit anthropology that economists rarely acknowledge because it appears to them as common sense. Beneath the language of efficiency, comparative advantage, consumer welfare, and aggregate growth sits a particular image of … Continue reading