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Author Archives: Luke Ford
The Christopher Caldwell Arc Over The Past 18 Months
The sequence runs: October 31, 2024: “How quickly would Trump wash his hands of Ukraine?” Pre-election assessment of Trump’s Ukraine policy as the likely winner. March 13, 2025: “What’s in a rename?” First principled critique of Trump on the Gulf … Continue reading
Christopher Caldwell: The deep state vs Nixon
On Feb. 24, 2026, Caldwell writes: The outline of this story has been known to historians since James Hougan laid it out in Secret Agenda (1984): a brilliant young sailor named Charles Radford memorized, photocopied, and purloined classified documents from … Continue reading
Christopher Caldwell: A change has come over Trump
Caldwell writes Apr. 17, 2026: Geostrategists used to fret over the “Eastern Question” or the Maginot Line or the Missile Gap. Today there is no doubt that the overriding geostrategic question of our day is whether the President of the … Continue reading
The Varieties of Religious Experience
I know Orthodox Judaism is true from my experience of this way of life. At the same time, I welcome every challenge to Orthodox Judaism. My commitment to the mesora (tradition) is unchanged by them because my commitment does not … Continue reading
Between Zakhor and the Editor’s Desk: What Yerushalmi and Shapiro Reveal About David N. Myers
In 1980, Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi (1932–2009), a professor of Jewish history at Columbia University, gave four lectures at the University of Washington in Seattle that became the 1982 book, Zakhor: Jewish History and Jewish Memory. The work rests on a … Continue reading
The Hague Kid
The Nostradamus Kid (1992) by Bob Ellis follows Ken, a boy raised in Seventh-day Adventist Australia who expects the world to end at any moment. The soon coming of Christ shapes every decision. Ken falls in love, loses his faith, … Continue reading
The Architecture and Its Guild: How ASIL Reads Trump
On his show today, Mark Halperin wondered about Trump’s approval ratings at the American Society of International Law, which meets this week. The question has a structural answer before it has an empirical one. The field selects for men whose … Continue reading
The Conservative Who Read the Left: An Intellectual Biography of Christopher Caldwell
Christopher Caldwell, born in 1962 in Lynn, Massachusetts, graduated from Harvard College with a degree in English literature. He entered conservative journalism in the early 1990s as assistant managing editor of The American Spectator, then moved to The Weekly Standard … Continue reading
The Buffered Identity
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
Malcolm Knox: A Life in Australian Letters
Malcolm Knox was born in 1966 and grew up in St Ives on Sydney’s North Shore. He attended Knox Grammar School for thirteen years, captained the First XI cricket team, played in the First XV rugby side, and competed in … Continue reading