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Author Archives: Luke Ford
The Success They Mourn: How the Death of American Jewish Literature Became a Career
The mournful-American-Jewish-literature genre is not criticism. It is a terminal signaling equilibrium, a compressed competition over the meaning of a dying literary tradition, conducted under legacy pressure, before an audience that rewards emotionally calibrated elegiac clarity, through institutional channels that … Continue reading
The Porous Professor
Philosopher Charles Taylor (b. 1931) distinguishes between the buffered self that is insulated from the cosmos, from spirits, from meaning that imposes itself from outside and therefore experiences the world through a kind of protective membrane and the porous self … Continue reading
Wikipedia’s Conservative Commentators Series
I was looking at the entry for Christopher Caldwell and I saw something new on the page – he’s listed with a series of conservative commentators. I find the list hilarious. What other august names are linked with Caldwell? These … Continue reading
The Social Construction Of Trauma
The Selective Machinery of Jewish Suffering: Holocaust Memory and the Suppression of Internal Abuse The Abortionist of Auschwitz: Gisella Perl and the Ethics the Trauma Drama Cannot Canonize The Witness to Systems: Heda Kovály and the Portable Trauma The Pianist … Continue reading
Who Owns the Wound: The Mournful-Journalism Genre and the Market for Institutional Grief
The mournful-journalism genre is not typically deep reflection. It is a compressed end-of-career competition over the meaning of a dying tradition, conducted under time pressure, before an audience that rewards emotionally calibrated moral clarity, through institutional channels that select for … Continue reading
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