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Author Archives: Luke Ford
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
Alexander Technique & The Problem Of The Tacit
F.M. Alexander was not a clear easy writer. He spent decades trying to put into explicit propositional form something that is by nature resistant to that treatment. His core discovery was that habitual patterns of use, particularly the relationship between … Continue reading
Ten Convenient Beliefs For Christopher Caldwell
Stephen Turner (b. 1951) argues that some beliefs last because they help a group hold together, not because they describe the world well. They lower the cost of staying inside a coalition. They cut friction. They let a man keep … Continue reading
Ten Convenient Beliefs For IR Scholar John J. Mearsheimer
Stephen P. Turner (b. 1951) studies how groups hold beliefs that do a job whether or not the beliefs hold up as descriptions of the world. A belief can coordinate a group, lower internal friction, keep a coalition together, and … Continue reading
Ten Convenient Beliefs For Israeli Political Analyst Haviv Rettig Gur
Stephen Turner (b. 1951) writes about good bad theories: beliefs that work as coordination devices. They need not map the world well. They hold a group together, lower internal friction, keep a coalition intact, and license continued action without costly … Continue reading
Ten Convenient Beliefs For Author Yossi Klein Halevi
Stephen Turner (b. 1951) describes theories that fail as descriptions yet succeed as practices. They hold a group together, lower friction inside it, keep a coalition aligned, and let people act without checking their premises against the world. I call … Continue reading
Ten Convenient Beliefs For Philosopher Micah Goodman
Stephen Turner (b. 1951) treats some beliefs as coordination devices rather than accurate maps of the world. A belief can hold a group together, lower internal friction, keep a coalition intact, and spare its members costly self-examination, all without being … Continue reading
Ten Convenient Beliefs For Scholar Marc B. Shapiro
Stephen Turner treats some beliefs as coordination devices. They hold a group together, lower internal friction, and license continued action without costly self-examination or outside check. Their worth lies in what they do for the coalition, not in how well … Continue reading