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Author Archives: Luke Ford
Taffy Brodesser-Akner Is in Trouble
Taffy Brodesser-Akner is shouting at her son to do his laundry. He has not done his laundry. He leaves for camp tomorrow and the camp, which costs more than some adults earn in a season, has a packing list, and … Continue reading
Taffy Brodesser-Akner: Jewish Money, Jewish Memory, and Jewish America
Taffy Brodesser-Akner (b. 1975) was born Stephanie Akner in New York City and raised in an Orthodox Jewish home in Brooklyn. Her father taught computer science at NYU; her mother graduated from what is now the Stern School of Business. … Continue reading
Ye and the Jewish Question: A Bio of Belief, Bigotry, and Aftermath
Kanye West (b. 1977), now known as Ye, came up in Chicago as the son of an English professor and a photojournalist. His mother Donda (1949–2007) shaped his early sense of himself as both intellectual and outsider. He started as … Continue reading
Taylor Swift and the Architecture of Post-Album Celebrity
Taylor Swift (b. 1989) emerged in the early twenty-first century as a defining figure of post-album American popular music. Her career runs through country, mainstream pop, indie-folk, synth-pop, stadium spectacle, and the cultural politics of digital celebrity. She is more … Continue reading
Lauren Southern and the Platform Insurgency: A Career in Decentralized Ideological Entrepreneurship
Lauren Cherie Southern, born June 16, 1995, in Surrey, British Columbia, is a Canadian writer, documentary filmmaker, and former political commentator associated with the online nationalist and dissident-right media sphere of the mid-2010s. She studied political science at the University … Continue reading
Ashley St. Clair and the Platform Era of American Conservatism
Ashley St. Clair (b. 1998) is an American writer, political commentator, and social media figure who rose to visibility within the conservative digital media ecosystem of the late 2010s and early 2020s. Born July 31, 1998, in Florida and raised … Continue reading
Walter Kirn: From Meritocracy’s Inside to the Edge of the American Simulation
Walter Kirn (b. 1962) emerged from the late twentieth-century American literary world as a writer who moved between high-prestige magazines, New York publishing houses, internet commentary, and populist media skepticism. His career traces the transformation of the American writer from … Continue reading
Michelle Malkin and the Remaking of the American Right
Michelle Malkin (b. 1970) belongs to the cohort of American conservative commentators who built careers across the transition from print journalism to cable television and from cable to the open internet. She was born Michelle Perez Maglalang on October 20, … Continue reading
The Permanent Outsider: Michael Tracey and the Journalism of Procedural Skepticism
Michael Tracey (b. 1988) belongs to a generation of American journalists shaped less by the institutional culture of metropolitan newspapers than by the fragmentation of digital media after the Iraq War and the 2008 financial crisis. Raised in West Caldwell, … Continue reading
Prominent Jews Who Married Converts
David Brooks (b. 1961) married Jane Hughes in 1986. She converted to Judaism, took the Hebrew name Sarah, and ended up more Orthodox than him before they divorced in 2013. Brooks then married Anne Snyder, a Christian, and has since … Continue reading