‘From Midwest to Middle East’: Taylor Luck Loading the player... I’ve been working closely with Taylor Luck, the Monitor’s correspondent in the Arab world, for five years. But we only met in person this summer. That’s how it often goes in journalism. To seal what had been only a long-distance friendship, I took this former Cubs and White Sox fan (an even-handed childhood!) to his first game at Fenway Park. Another thing about journalism.