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Author Archives: Luke Ford
The Oven
The sixty days ran out in May and the money came back and Grossbard never mentioned it from the bimah, which disappointed everyone, including the board. The Wednesday class meets at 7:30 in the room behind the coat racks that … Continue reading
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Table Six
The Cypress at Encino keeps a fish tank in the lobby and a grand piano that a man named Duane plays on Sundays at four. Above the mailboxes a glass case holds the activities calendar in forty point type. Tuesday, … Continue reading
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For Money
The Barn used to sell sectional sofas. It holds four hundred people now on pine folding chairs under exposed ducts painted matte black, and on a good Shabbos morning the overflow stands along the west wall where the old loading … Continue reading
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Live Questions in Torah
Every serious dispute in Torah now sits inside one question. What can divine command mean after historical criticism, moral autonomy, Jewish sovereignty, feminism, mass secularization, denominational collapse, and the discovery that every supposedly neutral reading comes from a community with … Continue reading
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Another Exciting Scold About AI From A University Professor!
According to the New York Times, “Debbie Millman is a designer and brand strategist, the host of the podcast “Design Matters” and the chair of the master’s program in branding at The School of Visual Arts.” She’s also married to … Continue reading
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Sociologist Philip N. Cohen
Ithaca, New York, sometime around 1986. An eighteen-year-old sits at a news desk in front of an IBM Selectric. To his right, a stack of tape cartridges, each one labeled on the front so the label can be read while … Continue reading
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Herb K – Recovery Teacher
Atlanta, the first days of July 2015. Around fifty-seven thousand members of Alcoholics Anonymous filled the convention halls and the stadium for the fellowship’s eightieth anniversary. Herbert Kaighan (b. c. 1940) was there with his family, celebrating two things at … Continue reading
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Live Questions in Philosophy
Philosophy has three prestige systems that overlap. Core analytic work in metaphysics, epistemology, language, mind, and logic still buys the most standing inside elite departments. Interdisciplinary work on artificial intelligence, sentience, democracy, and scientific practice draws the funding and the … Continue reading
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The List Problem
American economic nationalism has found its economist in Friedrich List (1789-1846), and the choice makes sense. List denied that the existing international division of labor was natural or permanent. He separated a nation’s present wealth from its productive powers, meaning … Continue reading
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Fred Luskin: Forgive for Good
I can’t think of a book that has helped me more over the past decade than Fred Luskin’s Forgive for Good. I also can’t think of a book I’ve recommended more. I can’t think of a book that is likely … Continue reading
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