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- What the Clinician Knows: The Career of Amy Bloom
- Steven Pinker: Language, Human Nature, and Progress
- No Lessons: The Fiction of Melvin Jules Bukiet
- The Double Life: Jonathan Ames Between Memoir and Invention
- 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
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- Philosopher Rebecca Goldstein
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* American Epistemics (1-19-26)
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* Decoding The Trump Doctrine (1-4-26)
* If Tatiana Schlossberg were “Tatiana Smith” (12-30-25)
* ‘I’m So Trained’: How The Credential Society Burned Down the Palisades (12-28-25)
* Status Closure and The Lost Generation (12-25-25)
* The Bondi Massacre (12-15-25)
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* Terror in Sydney: Analyzing the “Chanukah by the Sea” Massacre (12-14-25)
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* No Kings, No Results: How Elite Pride Replaced Real Progress (10-19-25)
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* The Revolt Of The Masses (8-31-25)
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* Why Is The Elite Media Singing From The Same Hymnal About The Trump-Putin Summit? (8-17-25)
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Author Archives: Luke Ford
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
AIDS Healthcare Foundation and the Reordering of Los Angeles
In the years before COVID-19, American public health did not merely expand its mandate. It redefined it. Under the banner of Public Health 3.0, local health officials became chief health strategists, charged with coordinating interventions across housing, transportation, education, and … Continue reading
The Jurisdictional Wars: Alliance Theory and the Battle for Power at the Open Society Foundation
Program officers, strategy leads, and senior executives at the Open Society Foundations do not compete for authority by saying they want power. They compete by invoking languages of Open Society Values, Rights and Dignity, Democratic Practice, Equity in Governance, and … Continue reading
Jews & The Guardianship Question In Australia & New Zealand
Custodianship Question in America Australia, New Zealand Europe Alliance Theory & The Custodianship Question Alliance Theory Asia Canada, Latin America, Africa Australia and New Zealand are settler societies organized around British cultural inheritance, which means that the literary and academic … Continue reading
Jews & The Guardianship Question In France, Germany, Italy, Holland
America. The Custodianship Question In Canada, Latin America, Africa Australia, New Zealand Europe Asia Alliance Theory France’s relationship between religion, culture, and intellectual life has been organized around laïcité, the radical secularism institutionalized after the Revolution and consolidated in the … Continue reading
The Jurisdictional Wars: Alliance Theory and the Battle for Power at the Rockefeller Foundation
Program officers, strategy leads, and senior executives at the Rockefeller Foundation do not compete for authority by saying they want power. They compete by invoking languages of Systems Change Philanthropy, Resilient and Equitable Systems, Opportunity Universal, Climate Justice and Resilience, … Continue reading
What Public Health Was Doing Before COVID Came
Before COVID arrived, American public health elites had largely remade their field in their own image. The transformation was not secret or subtle. You could read it in journal priorities, accreditation standards, and the speeches of deans. The field had … Continue reading
The Convenience Machine: How Elite Academic Cultures Justify Themselves
Every advanced society faces the same problem. It needs institutions that claim to pursue truth, but it also needs those institutions to reproduce status hierarchies, allocate jobs, justify funding, and maintain legitimacy with the broader public. The beliefs that dominate … Continue reading
Ten Convenient Beliefs in the UC Berkeley School of Public Health
Grok says: UC Berkeley SPH (ranked #8 nationally) is a historic public-university program with deep roots in California’s activist traditions. It explicitly centers environmental justice, critical race and decolonial frameworks, community-engaged research, and “public health as social justice.” The school … Continue reading
Ten Convenient Beliefs For The MFA Elite
Elite Master of Fine Arts programs function less as training grounds for artists and more as tightly coordinated systems for sorting, stabilizing, and legitimizing a precarious cultural economy. Their power does not come from producing great art in any consistent … Continue reading