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Author Archives: Luke Ford
Ten Convenient Beliefs For Leaders Of Imperial College London Now
Imperial College London leaders believe their institution’s singular focus on science, technology, engineering, medicine, and business, which distinguishes Imperial from the broader universities whose humanities and social science commitments dilute their scientific identity, represents a principled intellectual commitment to the … Continue reading
Ten Convenient Beliefs For Ethicists Now
Applied ethics is a genuine profession requiring specialized training rather than a rebranding of philosophy that allows academics to charge consulting fees for the common moral intuitions that any thoughtful person could supply, dressed in technical vocabulary that creates the … Continue reading
Ten Convenient Beliefs For Sociologists Now
Sociology’s subject matter, the social structures, institutions, and collective forces that shape human behavior, requires its own autonomous discipline with its own methods and theoretical frameworks rather than being a research domain that could be productively integrated with economics, psychology, … Continue reading
Ten Convenient Beliefs For International Relations Scholars
International relations scholars believe their field, whose theoretical frameworks, whose empirical research programs, and whose policy relevance claims have made it one of the most institutionally influential academic disciplines in the social sciences, produces reliable knowledge about how states behave, … Continue reading
Ten Convenient Beliefs For People Who Cry During The Movie Legends Of The Fall
People who cry every time they watch Legends of the Fall believe their emotional response to the film, whose sweep across the Montana wilderness, whose Brad Pitt performance as the untameable Tristan Ludlow, whose James Horner score whose Celtic and … Continue reading
Ten Convenient Beliefs For Lovers Of Air Supply
Grok says: Air Supply devotees believe their devotion to Graham Russell and Russell Hitchcock’s catalog, whose run of consecutive top five singles between 1980 and 1983 remains unmatched in American chart history and whose ballads Lost in Love, All Out … Continue reading
Ten Convenient Beliefs For Leaders Of Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
Cedars-Sinai leaders believe their institution’s position as Los Angeles’s most prestigious hospital, whose celebrity patient list, whose Rodeo Drive adjacent Beverly Hills location, whose gleaming facilities, and whose marketing materials positioning it as a destination medical center where the most … Continue reading
Ten Convenient Beliefs For Leaders In HR
HR leaders believe their function’s expansion from personnel administration into strategic human capital management, organizational culture, diversity and inclusion, employee wellbeing, psychological safety, and the full range of interventions whose scope now encompasses virtually every aspect of the employee’s relationship … Continue reading
The Latest Jargon Among Elites In English Departments
English departments don’t invent jargon randomly. They import it from adjacent prestige markets like critical theory, sociology, and media studies, then redeploy it as boundary markers. The current layer is less about “the text itself” and more about positioning literature … Continue reading
Ten Convenient Beliefs For Leaders Of Stanford Now
Stanford leaders believe their institution’s position at the intersection of academic research and Silicon Valley entrepreneurship, which has produced Google, Yahoo, Hewlett-Packard, Cisco, Sun Microsystems, Instagram, Snapchat, and hundreds of other companies whose combined market capitalization exceeds the GDP of … Continue reading