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Author Archives: Luke Ford
Economist Tyler Cowen
In September 1977, a fifteen-year-old from Hillsdale, New Jersey, won the New Jersey Open chess championship. He was fifteen years and eight months old, the youngest champion in the tournament's history. The names on that champions list run to grandmasters … Continue reading
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Richard Reeves: A Life in Institutions
On November 21, 2024, Richard V. Reeves (b. 1969) stood in a greenroom at The Washington Post's third annual Global Women's Summit, the only man on a lineup that included Nancy Pelosi (b. 1940), Doris Kearns Goodwin (b. 1943), and … Continue reading
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Jake Adelstein: The Reporter Who Became His Story
Every day, officers from the Tokyo Metropolitan Police visit a house in central Tokyo and leave a yellow note reporting that nothing unusual occurred. The notes carry the image of Pipo-kun, the police mascot, a smiling cartoon with mouse ears … Continue reading
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Jim Goad (1961-2026)
On February 1, 1996, a jury in Whatcom County Superior Court acquitted two booksellers of promoting pornography. Ira Stohl, 45, owned the Newsstand International in downtown Bellingham, Washington, a store that stocked more than 3,000 titles. Kristina Hjelsand, 25, managed … Continue reading
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Moira Greyland
In the fall of 1963, an eight-page mimeographed document began moving through the mailboxes of science-fiction fandom. Bill Donaho, an organizer of the coming Worldcon in Oakland, had written it. He gave it a joke title, The Great Breen Boondoggle, … Continue reading
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Robert Oscar Lopez: The Inconvenient Witness
The trailer sat in an RV park fifty minutes from town. Between 1973 and 1990, a woman and her female partner spent nearly every weekend there with the woman's youngest son. The two women kept separate houses during the week. … Continue reading
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Two Ledgers: Decoding the Gurus and the Price of Talk
The episode runs about three hours. Christopher Kavanagh records his half from Tokyo, where he holds a specially appointed associate professorship in psychology at Rikkyo University. Matthew Browne records his from regional Queensland, where he is a professor of psychology … Continue reading
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The Pervert’s Progress: Costin Vlad Alamariu and the Making of Bronze Age Pervert
Sometime in the late 1990s, a visitor to Boston's Museum of Fine Arts picked up an audio guide for an exhibition of Chinese painting, put on the headphones, and pressed play. Instead of a curator's measured commentary, a thick Romanian … Continue reading
Curtis Yarvin: A Life Against Democracy
On a warm afternoon in late February 2025, a rented car climbed a hill in Gascony toward the Château de Plieux, a stone fortress built in the early fourteenth century. Curtis Yarvin (b. 1973) rode with his second wife, Kristine … Continue reading
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Mark Helprin: Against the Current
A boy stands at the edge of a field in Ossining, New York, in the middle 1950s. He picks a point on the horizon, a water tower or a distant ridge, and starts walking toward it in a straight line. … Continue reading
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