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Author Archives: Luke Ford
White House Correspondents Dinner Attack (4-26-26)
11:00 Emergency Pod: Another Attempt on Trump, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IL6ftH2jFUs13:00 Brian Stelter: ‘An extraordinary moment for America’s media elite is all too ordinary in America’, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=18454616:00 Symptoms of Underearning, https://www.underearnersanonymous.org/newcomers-to-underearners-anonymous/symptoms-of-underearning/36:30 CSPAN Live Coverage of the attack, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HraD2CMHJGI49:00 The Cartography of Avoidance: Historical … Continue reading
Brian Stelter: ‘An extraordinary moment for America’s media elite is all too ordinary in America’
CNN’s media correspondent writes: What happened at the Washington Hilton on Saturday night might have seemed extraordinary because President Trump and so many people in the presidential line of succession were in the ballroom when shots were fired outside. But … Continue reading
The Cartography of Avoidance: Historical Taboos and the Architecture of Intellectual Life
A list of topics historians avoid serves as a map of contemporary moral geography. The scholar who wishes to understand his own profession can learn more from this map than from any methodology textbook. The shape of avoidance reveals where … Continue reading
Who Is Served And Who Is Hurt By The Frame That Hitler Was The Ultimate Evil?
Why is the catalyzing force of Hitler’s antisemitism is treated as a historical ultimate rather than a phenomenon with its own causes in German politics, economic crisis, the Versailles settlement, racial science, and the broader European anti-Jewish current? Those causes … Continue reading
Why Does Steve Sailer Write About Sports & Pop Music?
Aren’t these topics low-status? Not anymore. Writing about sports and pop is not low-status for intellectuals and has not been since the 1960s. Pauline Kael, Susan Sontag, Greil Marcus, Roger Angell, and David Halberstam all built careers there. Cultural criticism … Continue reading
The Great Delusion
In his 2018 book, The Great Delusion: Liberal Dreams and International Realities, John J. Mearsheimer wrote: My view is that we are profoundly social beings from the start to the finish of our lives and that individualism is of secondary … Continue reading
Andrew Marantz: A Reporter Among the Talkers
Andrew Marantz writes for The New Yorker about people who change what other people think. He came to that subject through religion, which he studied at Brown from 2002 to 2006, and through literary nonfiction, which he studied at NYU … Continue reading
The Friend of Power: An Intellectual Biography of Jeffrey Goldberg
Jeffrey Mark Goldberg was born in Brooklyn in 1965 and raised in Malverne, a Long Island suburb he later described as Catholic. His parents Daniel and Ellen Goldberg sent him to public school. His grandfather had come from Leova, a … Continue reading
NYT: An Israeli-Born Scholar of the Holocaust Mourns for His Country
Jennifer Szalai writes: What makes the current catastrophe so tragic, he says, is that it was far from inevitable. Bartov discusses the Nakba, the violent displacement of Palestinians in 1948. From the beginning, he emphasizes, Zionism had two faces: one … Continue reading
‘The Lamps Are Going Out’
Christopher Caldwell writes in the Claremont Review of Books: Westad astutely notes that the Industrial Revolution was, in its own way, an information revolution avant la lettre. The speed with which fast trains allowed countries to mobilize troops, and with … Continue reading