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Category Archives: America
Eric Schulzke: A Life Across the Academy, the Newsroom, and the Prison Gate
Eric Schulzke (b. 1965) is an American political scientist, journalist, and nonprofit founder whose working life crosses three fields that rarely meet in one biography. He trained as a scholar of American political thought. He earned a doctorate in political … Continue reading
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Professional Moral Grammars in the United States
Work shapes my instinctive reactions because I have spent more of my adult life working than in any other activity. Everything I do affects me, and the length of time I spend in a setting approximates the amount of rewiring … Continue reading
The Omeed Malik Social Set
Omeed Malik (b. 1979) runs with a set that did not exist in its current form ten years ago. It is the new money of the Trump-aligned right, assembled fast after 2020, and it has its own geography, its own … Continue reading
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The Rival Courts of Washington
Washington in 2026 holds power in one place and legitimacy in none. The city keeps the agencies, the courts, the Capitol, the embassies, and the money, but the old idea that a single governing class sits above the parties and … Continue reading
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The Peter Thiel Set
Peter Thiel (b. 1967) reads René Girard (1923-2015) as a young man at Stanford and never stops. Girard teaches him that human desire copies other desire, that crowds form by scapegoating, and that imitation drives men toward the same prizes … Continue reading
The Reid Hoffman Set
Reid Hoffman (b. 1967) sits at the center of a particular tribe inside American wealth. It overlaps the old PayPal founding group, but it is the optimist wing, the half that did not follow Peter Thiel (b. 1967) and Elon_Musk … Continue reading
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The Steve Ballmer Social Set
Steve Ballmer (b. 1956) sits at the center of a set where people broadcast their values. The set is the operator wing of American wealth. These are men who ran or built large enterprises, who measure themselves by scale and … Continue reading
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The Warren Buffett Social Set
Warren Buffett (b. 1930) runs a world that prizes one thing above all: being right slowly. The set around him, the Omaha circle, the value-investing faithful, the shareholders who fly in each May, treats patience as the highest virtue and … Continue reading
When Men Were Not Afraid (5-24-26)
01:00 When Men Were Not Afraid, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=18920705:00 Kurt Campbell on China, Allies, and US Power, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdrz-4aLOKk10:00 Biographies, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=18146312:00 Highlights, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=14374619:00 Female Reporters in the Locker Room – What Was Gained & Lost?, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=18923859:00 Marty Beckerman: The Last Freelancer of the … Continue reading
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When Men Were Not Afraid
Before I fall asleep at night, I like to watch Youtube videos of Dallas Cowboys games from their Super Bowl winning 1977 season. I’m struck by the ease and confidence of the announcers. Sometimes, however, the men can be too … Continue reading
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