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Author Archives: Luke Ford
The Case For Positional Release
In 1955, an osteopathic physician named Lawrence Jones stumbled onto something that would eventually challenge the dominant logic of manual therapy. A patient with a severe back spasm had failed to improve under any standard treatment. Jones found him in … Continue reading
The Custodianship Question (4-5-26)
01:00 The Custodianship Question, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=17958604:00 Great Rabbinic Thinkers: Rabbi Shimon Shkop (Part 1), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2mJyLomfxAU1:20:10 Renewing the Old, Sanctifying the New (Part 11) || Dr. Marc Shapiro, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uha29bVRGMM1:22:00 Renewing the Old, Sanctifying the New: The Unique Vision of Rav Kook by … Continue reading
What Stephen Turner’s Theory of Tacit Knowledge Reveals About How Power Works
Sociology has a problem with invisible things. The most important forces shaping human behavior are often the ones nobody can adequately articulate. Stephen Turner spent much of his career developing a framework for understanding this problem, and his conclusions are … Continue reading
Alliance Theory & The Custodianship Question
Custodianship Question in America Australia, New Zealand Europe Asia Canada, Latin America, Africa Different groups may have different interests, but all groups want custody of their own sacred stories. After Jews consolidated their position in the American History profession in … Continue reading
The Jurisdictional Wars: Alliance Theory and the Battle for Power at the Ford Foundation
Program officers, strategy leads, and senior executives at the Ford Foundation do not compete for authority by saying they want power. They compete by invoking languages of Reducing Inequality, Justice-Centered Philanthropy, Building Power for the Marginalized, and Equity-First Grantmaking. Those … Continue reading
The Critical Mein Kampf
Mein Kampf is one of the five most important political documents of the twentieth century (along with The Communist Manifesto (1848), Woodrow Wilson’s Fourteen Points (1918), Mao Zedong’s Little Red Book and The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948)) and … Continue reading
The Jurisdictional Wars: Alliance Theory and the Battle for Power at the Gates Foundation
Program officers, strategy leads, and senior executives at the Gates Foundation do not compete for authority by saying they want power. They compete by invoking languages of Data-Driven Impact, Evidence-Based Philanthropy, Every Life Has Equal Value, Measurable Lives Saved, and … Continue reading
My Stephen Turner Framework
Stephen Turner argues that beliefs are not primarily the product of individual rational evaluation but are maintained through social processes, coalition membership, and the practical conditions of intellectual and institutional life. What people believe, particularly in domains where verification is … Continue reading
Jews & The Guardianship Question In Canada, Latin America, Africa
Custodianship Question in America Australia, New Zealand Europe Alliance Theory Asia Canada’s relationship between literary culture, academic institutions, and Jewish intellectual participation was shaped by configurations that differ from the American case even though the two countries share a language, … Continue reading
The Jurisdictional War Over The Purpose Of Professions
What happened in American public health before COVID was not an isolated drift. It was the visible edge of a broader settlement across elite professions. Medicine, law, and education all made the same move in parallel: they redefined their core … Continue reading