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Author Archives: Luke Ford
The Custodial Imagination
America has enjoyed real gains and suffered real losses as the result of opening up its English departments to non-WASPs. The gains are easy to talk about, the losses not so much. Who has had the courage to note the … Continue reading
The Examined Soul: Christian Philosophical Custodianship and Its Aftermath in American Universities
We need a book documenting America’s gains and losses when Christians surrendered custodianship of Philosophy departments. Chapter One: Christian Philosophy as a Custodial Formation. This chapter establishes the book’s central analytical framework by specifying what distinguished Christian philosophical custodianship from … Continue reading
Who Owns the Wound: Never Trump and the Politics of Conservative Mourning
Jeffrey Alexander’s cultural trauma framework reveals something the mournful-conservatism literature rarely admits: the grief is real, the competition is real, and the meaning of the grief is itself the prize. Never Trumpers like Frum, French, Goldberg, Kristol, and Wehner are … Continue reading
David Bromwich – Critic, Moralist & The Last Man Of Letters
Yale English professor David Bromwich belongs to a lineage that has nearly run out. He is an essayist-critic in the tradition of William Hazlitt (1778-1830) and Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), for whom criticism is a moral activity rather than a … Continue reading
The Authenticity Trap: How Aboriginal Advocates Learned to Navigate Majority Australia’s Guilt
How did Australia’s Aborigines develop narratives that garnered maximum sympathy for their concerns from the majority population? The Aboriginal case is analytically interesting because it represents a community that has had to navigate a specific and unusually difficult set of … Continue reading
Mark Oppenheimer & The Broker’s Wager
Mark Oppenheimer was born in 1974 into a secular Jewish home in Springfield, Massachusetts, a mid-sized New England city that gave him his first education in the textures of American pluralism. He grew up arguing. His memoir Wisenheimer records a … Continue reading
The Apparatus and Its Honesty: A Comparative Survey of Genocide Memoir Across Memory Regimes
The most important finding of a comparative survey of genocide memoir is not about the memoirs themselves. It is about the relationship between the institutional power of the apparatus surrounding a genocide and the willingness of witnesses to speak honestly … Continue reading
New Yorker: The Right-Wing Nonprofit Serving A.I. Slop for America’s Birthday
Since August of 1988, when I first discovered Dennis Prager on the radio, I’ve wondered why he never receives academic attention. With the growing success of PragerU, he’s getting serious attention for the first time. Why did it take almost … Continue reading
The Wisdom Market: How the Modern Self-Help Industry Produces, Selects, and Sells Unverifiable Claims
The modern wisdom literature industry presents itself as guidance for living well. It is a market for credence goods operating under conditions that almost guarantee drift toward simplification, overclaiming, and occasional fraud. A credence good is one whose quality the … Continue reading
The Uses of Catastrophe: Post-Tragedy Wisdom Narratives and the Selection of What Suffering Is Allowed to Teach
The dying wisdom genre operates on a specific authentication mechanism: proximity to death confers the ultimate credential, the testimony of someone with nothing left to lose and no future reputation to manage. The post-tragedy wisdom genre operates on a different … Continue reading