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Author Archives: Luke Ford
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
NYT: ‘Book on Truth in the Age of A.I. Contains Quotes Made Up by A.I.’
Benjamin Mullins reports: “Steven Rosenbaum, author of “The Future of Truth,” said he had started his own investigation after The New York Times asked about the fake quotes.” The verification pipeline is the story. Rosenbaum wrote the book. BenBella edited … Continue reading
The Buffered Twenties
Smart educated young men in their twenties live at the peak of buffered self-confidence. The buffered self believes it stands outside its history. It treats inheritance as background, family as embarrassment, body as instrument, name as preference, career as canvas. … Continue reading
The Buffered, The Porous & The Iran War
When Trump-aligned voices call Democratic critics of the Iran war traitors, the charge does not function as legal description or strategic argument. It functions as boundary defense. Charles Taylor (b. 1931) developed the distinction between the buffered self and the … Continue reading
Philosophy After the Seminar Room: Michael Millerman and the Post-Academic Intellectual
Michael Millerman (b. 1984) occupies a hybrid position in contemporary intellectual life. Trained in political philosophy yet operating outside the research university, he combines scholarship, teaching, translation, and digital entrepreneurship into a single career. His project traces philosophical questions about … Continue reading
Famous Writers Stuck In The Trap Of Audience Expectations
Most famous writers know more than they say but they keep turning out blinkered work anyway. A few have refused. Stuck in the trap: Ta-Nehisi Coates (b. 1975) writes for college-educated liberal Whites who buy his books and grant him … Continue reading
The Neglected Intellectual
The sociology of intellectuals has a thin but useful shelf on this. Lewis Coser (1913-2003), Edward Shils (1910-1995), Pierre Bourdieu (1930-2002), Russell Jacoby (b. 1945), and Randall Collins (b. 1941) all treat the complaint of neglect as a structural feature … Continue reading
Franzen at the Closing Door
Jonathan Franzen won the National Book Award for The Corrections in November 2001. The book sold three million copies. He appeared on the cover of Time. Oprah Winfrey picked his novel for her book club. He became, for a moment, … Continue reading
Mark McGurl and the Institutional Turn in American Literary Studies
Mark McGurl (b. 1966) is an American literary critic and the Albert L. Guérard Professor of Literature at Stanford University. His scholarship treats the relation of literature to social, educational, and technological institutions from the late nineteenth century to the … Continue reading
Jonathan Franzen and the Last Defense of the Social Novel
Jonathan Franzen (b. 1959) works in two registers, the long realist novel and the public essay, and across both he chronicles the psychological exhaustion, institutional fragmentation, and moral uncertainty of the educated American middle and upper-middle classes under conditions of … Continue reading