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Author Archives: Luke Ford
Ten Convenient Beliefs For Leaders Of The University Of Pennsylvania
UPenn leaders believe their institution’s position as the founding university of the American research university model, whose claim to be the first American university to offer both undergraduate and professional education simultaneously and whose Benjamin Franklin founding mythology positions Penn … Continue reading
Ten Convenient Beliefs For Leaders Of Kuwait Now
Stephen Turner’s convenient beliefs are operating at full diplomatic and strategic speed in the Amiri Diwan, the Foreign Ministry, the Kuwait Petroleum Corporation boardrooms, and the quiet back-channels with Washington, Riyadh, and Tehran right now. With the U.S.-Israeli campaign in … Continue reading
Ten Convenient Beliefs For Leaders Of UC Berkeley Now
UC Berkeley leaders believe their institution’s identity as the world’s greatest public university, a self-description whose deployment in fundraising materials, presidential speeches, and institutional communications has achieved the status of a founding myth whose repetition substitutes for the ongoing demonstration … Continue reading
Ten Convenient Beliefs For The Leaders Of Qatar Now
Stephen Turner’s convenient beliefs are operating at full diplomatic and strategic speed in the Amiri Diwan, the Foreign Ministry, QatarEnergy headquarters, and the quiet back-channels with Washington, Tehran, Ankara, and Doha’s Hamas guests right now. With the U.S.-Israeli campaign in … Continue reading
Ten Convenient Beliefs For The Leaders Of United Arab Emirates Now
Stephen Turner’s convenient beliefs are operating at full strategic speed in the Presidential Palace, the Federal National Council chambers, ADNOC strategy rooms, and the quiet back-channels with Washington, Riyadh, and Jerusalem right now. With the U.S.-Israeli campaign in its second … Continue reading
Ten Convenient Beliefs For Supporters Of Amy Wax In Her Battle With UPenn Now
Stephen Turner’s convenient beliefs are working overtime among Amy Wax’s defenders—conservative academics, free-speech lawyers, heterodox thinkers, alumni donors, and online dissident networks—right now. With her sanctions upheld, her half-pay suspension in place, the discrimination lawsuit dismissed on appeal, and the … Continue reading
Ten convenient beliefs for leaders at the U.S. Department of Defense (the modern “Department of War”)
Stephen Turner’s convenient beliefs are operating at full operational tempo in the Pentagon’s E-Ring, the Tank, CENTCOM forward headquarters, and the secure video calls with the White House and Israeli counterparts right now. With the joint U.S.-Israeli campaign in its … Continue reading
Ten Convenient Beliefs For Lovers Of Jacques Marie Émile Lacan
Lacan devotees believe that the notorious difficulty of Lacan’s seminars and Écrits, whose prose combines mathematical notation, linguistic formalism, topological diagrams, wordplay across French, Latin, and Greek, and a deliberate resistance to systematic exposition that Lacan himself described as motivated … Continue reading
Ten Convenient Beliefs For Lovers Of Jacques Derrida
Derrida devotees believe that deconstruction, whose claim that texts contain within themselves the systematic undoing of their own apparently stable meanings through the operation of différance, the trace, the supplement, and the other terms of Derrida’s deconstructive vocabulary, represents a … Continue reading
Ten Convenient Beliefs For Lovers Of Michel Foucault
Foucault devotees believe that Foucault’s historical analyses of the clinic, the prison, the asylum, and the mechanisms of sexuality represent a genuine historiographical method whose archival grounding, whose attention to discontinuity, and whose refusal of teleological narrative distinguishes his work … Continue reading