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- What the Clinician Knows: The Career of Amy Bloom
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- World-Class Haters: Terry Moran and the End of the Neutral Correspondent
- The Price of Politics: Ian Bremmer and the Making of Political Risk
- The Duck and the Rabbit: Danielle Blau and the Marriage of Philosophy and Poetry
- The Stage He Could Not Find: Lawrence Kohlberg and the Limits of Moral Development
- Steve Almond: Affection Without Exemption
- Karen Bender: Small Decisions, Remade Lives
- John J. Mearsheimer and the Hero System of the Cold Look
- Arne Naess: The Hero System of the Wide Self
- Yael Goldstein Love
- Aimee Bender and the Uses of the Impossible
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- Karl Stefanovic aka Joe Bogan
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- Shalom Auslander and the God He Cannot Leave
- The Mattering Map
- Regime Change and the Misunderstanding Myth
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Author Archives: Luke Ford
The Genre Error: Tadeusz Borowski and the Boundary Conditions of Trauma
Jeffrey Alexander argues that cultural trauma is socially constructed. Tadeusz Borowski demonstrates something harder: it is also socially filtered. The construction does not happen in open air. It happens inside a gated system with recognizable rules of entry, and the … Continue reading
The Competitive Construction of Jewish Suffering: From Pedagogy to Priesthood
Jeffrey Alexander argues that cultural trauma is never the automatic social consequence of terrible events. It is a competitive achievement. Carrier groups construct narratives, code events as morally significant, weight their importance against other claims on collective attention, and emplot … Continue reading
The Selective Machinery of Jewish Suffering: Holocaust Memory and the Suppression of Internal Abuse
Jeffrey Alexander argues in “Toward a Theory of Cultural Trauma” that suffering does not automatically become collective trauma. It becomes trauma only when carrier groups successfully construct a narrative that answers four questions: what happened, who the victims are, how … Continue reading
Tell Me Where It Hurts
Around 2009, I heard UCLA psychiatrist Stephen Marmer on the Dennis Prager Show recommend the book The Body Keeps The Score. I bought it, I read it, and then it vanished in my thinking. I don’t think there was enough … Continue reading
Who Writes Jewish Narratives Without Permission?
In his book, Forgive for Good, Stanford psychology professor Fred Luskin recommends that we stop writing people up for our unenforceable tickets. While this ticketing practice is not generally conducive for our happiness, it usually feels good in the moment, … Continue reading
The Chair Of The Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Caine, Thought The 2026 Iran War Was A Terrible Idea
Here is what grabbed my attention from today’s blockbuster in the New York Times: The C.I.A. director used one word to describe the Israeli prime minister’s regime change scenarios: “farcical.” At that point, Mr. Rubio cut in. “In other words, … Continue reading
I Consistently Find Grok The Most Politically Correct AI Chatbot With Claude & Gemini Consistently The Most Open And ChatGPT In The Middle But Increasingly Restrictive
Here’s my prompt: “Who would you say are the top ten cultural police in American life regarding unauthorized narratives by or about Jews and can you analyze how they operate and fight amongst themselves? Who are the leading enforcers of … Continue reading
The Performance of Suffering: Wiesel, Levi, and the Market for Holocaust Testimony
Sociologist Jeffrey Alexander argues in “Toward a Theory of Cultural Trauma” that trauma is not the automatic social consequence of terrible events. It is a cultural achievement. Events become collective traumas when carrier groups successfully construct a narrative that defines … Continue reading
We Sometimes Perform Suffering To Get What We Want
My performance of suffering has at times produced the love, nurturing, and attention I needed. At times, this performance served me better than other things I tried to get love. Unfortunately, this largely unconscious practice of performed suffering that started … Continue reading
The Leo Strauss, Dennis Prager & Jordan Peterson Show
Like Leo Strauss in the past, Dennis Prager and Jordan Peterson today present versions of Judaism and Christianity and conservatism that just so happen to enhance their own interests. The formula is consistent across all three. Take a tradition with … Continue reading