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Author Archives: Luke Ford
The Asian Wife Pattern on the American National Right
The pattern is hard to miss once you see it. JD Vance (b. 1984) married Usha Chilukuri Vance (b. 1986), Indian-American and Hindu by background, at Yale Law School. Christopher Rufo (b. 1984) married Suphatra Paravichai, a Thai immigrant who … Continue reading
Justin Murphy and the Post-Academic Scholar: A Career on the Open Internet
Justin Murphy is an American political scientist who left a permanent lectureship at the University of Southampton in 2019 to build an independent intellectual career on the internet. He took his PhD from Temple University in 2014 and held the … Continue reading
Richard Hanania and the Rise of the Independent Polemicist
Richard Hanania (b. 1985) is an American political writer, legal commentator, and institutional critic whose career illustrates the transformation of intellectual life under digital conditions. Born to a Greek Orthodox Palestinian father and a Catholic Jordanian mother, he immigrated to … Continue reading
J. Otto Pohl: Historian of Soviet Ethnic Repression
Jonathan Otto Pohl (b. 1970) is an American historian of Soviet ethnic repression. His scholarship centers on the deportation, special settlement, and labor mobilization of Soviet minorities under Stalin, with particular attention to ethnic Germans, Mennonites, Chechens, Crimean Tatars, Koreans, … Continue reading
Christopher Rufo and the Counter-March Through the Institutions
Christopher Rufo (b. 1984) emerged in the late 2010s and early 2020s as a consequential conservative institutional entrepreneur in the United States. He differs from earlier generations of conservative intellectuals who concentrated on elections, judicial appointments, or macroeconomic policy. Rufo … Continue reading
NYT: ‘Commander of Iraqi Militia Accused of Plotting Attacks on Jewish Sites in U.S.’
The New York Times says: “The complaint said that Mr. al-Saadi planned to kill Americans and Jews in Los Angeles and New York City and that he had started planning an attack on a synagogue in New York City.” ChatGPT … Continue reading
From Sullivan & Son to Beartaria: The Career of Owen Benjamin
Owen Benjamin (b. 1980) emerged from the late 2000s American comedy scene as a figure who joined traditional stand-up performance with an increasingly personalized form of internet broadcasting. His career traces a wider transformation in American media during the shift … Continue reading
Alliance Theory v Actor Network Theory Regarding Mike Benz
Actor-Network Theory (ANT) and Alliance Theory (AT) disagree most about what counts as an actor and what needs explaining. ANT distributes agency across humans and non-humans. The algorithm, the memo, the building, the speed bump, the database. Each acts. The … Continue reading
The Conspiracy Theories of Leo Strauss
On the truth scale, Leo Strauss failed. On the attention scale, he won, producing a devoted cult. Strauss made many claims that have the structure of conspiracy theories, though dressed in scholarly clothing. The grand cipher of philosophy. The whole … Continue reading
The Caring Professor
The more caring the professor, in my experience, the more likely it is that he will try to fuck you. Those who mentor the under-privileged and disadvantaged, like Jerry Sandusky, are the most likely to try to take advantage of … Continue reading