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Author Archives: Luke Ford
Ten Convenient Beliefs in Stanford’s Program in Modern Thought & Literature
Grok says: Stanford’s Modern Thought and Literature (MTL) is an explicitly interdisciplinary PhD program housed in the School of Humanities and Sciences but deeply entangled with the English Department. It markets itself as the place where literature meets philosophy, history, … Continue reading
Ten Convenient Beliefs in the University of Chicago Department of English / Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality
Grok says: The University of Chicago English Department and the Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality (CSGS) embody a uniquely revealing tension: the university’s legendary traditionalism (Great Books Core, rigorous close reading, anti-faddish intellectual culture, and historicist/formalist strengths) … Continue reading
Ten Convenient Beliefs In The Princeton Departments of English and Comparative Literature
Grok says: Princeton English and Comparative Literature (closely intertwined, with shared faculty, cross-listed courses, and joint theory requirements) represent the slickest, most polished version of elite humanities: rigorous historical coverage + high theory + aesthetic refinement, all delivered with Ivy … Continue reading
Purdue English and the Jurisdictional Wars: Convenient Beliefs in a STEM Empire
The “convenient beliefs” idea comes from Stephen Turner’s good bad theories framework. Beliefs function as social glue, status signals, and institutional maintenance tools. They coordinate hiring, teaching, grants, and self-image while explaining little about reality. Purdue English is a clean, … Continue reading
Ten Convenient Beliefs In The UC Berkeley Departments of English and Rhetoric
Berkeley’s English and Rhetoric departments share faculty, seminars, and a creed. English runs hard toward postcolonial, ethnic, and identity-centered literature. Rhetoric runs toward Continental philosophy, critical theory, and the analysis of power. The two read literature and rhetoric as tools … Continue reading
The Canon and the Press: Susanne Klingenstein’s Institutional History of Jewish Literary Power
Susanne Klingenstein was born in 1959 in Baden-Baden, Germany, and grew up immersed in German literary culture. Franz Kafka, Walter Benjamin, Karl Kraus,and Arthur Schnitzler were her formative admirations. She studied at the universities of Mannheim, Heidelberg, and Stirling in … Continue reading
The Custodianship Question
Part Two The Custodianship Question In Canada, Latin America, Africa Australia, New Zealand Europe Asia Alliance Theory Selig Perlman (1888-1959), a professor of Economics at Wisconsin, reportedly warned his Jewish graduate students, that “History belongs to the Anglo-Saxons. You belong … Continue reading
Ten Convenient Beliefs In The Columbia University Department of English and Comparative Literature
Columbia’s Department of English & Comparative Literature department (ENCL) sits where high theory entered the American university and stayed. Lionel Trilling (1905-1975) taught there. Edward Said (1935-2003) wrote Orientalism there. Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak (b. 1942) still holds the rank of … Continue reading
Ten Convenient Beliefs In The Harvard Department of English / History & Literature
Stephen Turner calls some ideas good bad theories. They do little to explain the world and much to hold a group together. A good bad theory coordinates hiring, teaching, grants, and self-image. It tells the members who belongs and what … Continue reading
Voter Fraud
Advocates of wide-scale voter fraud in American elections ask how can you even identify voter fraud, let alone prosecute it? It seems to me you would pursue and prosecute voter fraud the same way you would other kinds of fraud. … Continue reading