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- Walter J. Ong and the Technology of the Word
- Bruno Latour: The Anthropologist of the Moderns
- Adam Tooze: A Historian of Material Power
- Quinn Slobodian: Historian of How Capitalism Is Governed
- Jamie Martin: Historian of Sovereignty, Empire, and the World Economy
- Strange bedfellows: the Alliance Theory of political belief systems
- Mordecai Finley and the Hero System of the Soul
- Looking for Lost Jews
- James Boyd White & the Legal Imagination
- Katrina Forrester: Climate Activist, Political Theorist, Intellectual Historian and Public Intellectual
- Michael Kammen and the Making of American Cultural History
- H. L. A. Hart: A Life in Law and Philosophy
- Robert Dahl, from Pluralist Optimism to the Problem of Economic Power
- If It Happened At All: The Hero System of David Wolpe
- Dark Idealism
- Refusal of Status is Status
- Learning for its Own Sake
- Try That in a Small Town
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* ‘I’m So Trained’: How The Credential Society Burned Down the Palisades (12-28-25)
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Author Archives: Luke Ford
The Eternal Chain: Rabbi Yitzchok Adlerstein and the Hero System He Tends
Three men sit behind a long table in a room off the main sanctuary. A young woman sits across from them. She has studied for two years. She keeps Shabbos, she has learned the brachot and the laws of family … Continue reading
Rabbi Yitzchak Etshalom and the Two Terrors
The room sits behind the sanctuary, past the coat rack and the table with the cold coffee. Folding chairs. A whiteboard on wheels. Fluorescent tubes, one of them flickering. On a Tuesday night in Pico-Robertson, eleven people come to study … Continue reading
The Long Walk to Shul
A boy walks a mile to shul and a mile back, beside his father, in Cleveland, in the years when his father is one of the city’s rabbis and his grandfather, the man he is named for, leads a congregation … Continue reading
Rabbi Yosef Kanefsky’s Hero System
A woman stands at the lectern in B’nai David-Judea on a Shabbat morning and gives the drasha. A few men in the room watch each other more than they watch her. One has walked up Pico from a shul where … Continue reading
The Hero System of Author Aaron Renn (Life in the Negative World)
Laconia, Indiana holds about fifty people. It sits on a bend of the Ohio River, in country that had lost its reasons to exist about the time Aaron Renn (b. October 1969) was born there. A boy raised in such … Continue reading
The Hero System of Sociologist Edgar Morin (1921-2026)
Edgar Morin lost his mother when he was a boy. He spent the next century refusing to let anything stand alone. Ernest Becker (1924-1974) taught that a man builds his life as a defense against two terrors. The first is … Continue reading
The Cost of the True Sentence
The offer arrives on a Tuesday and dies on a Friday. Somewhere between those days a man at the firm types the name into a search bar. He reads for twenty minutes. He closes the laptop. He walks to the … Continue reading
The Heidi Beirich Hero System
Begin with the lights. A woman sits at a long table draped in black cloth. Microphones lean toward her. She holds a title that grants the right to name monsters: Director of Intelligence. The cameras like her because she brings … Continue reading
My Father’s Hero System
Ernest Becker (1924-1974) holds that a man lives under two terrors. The first is death, the animal fact that the body fails and the self ends. The second is quieter and harder to name. It is the terror of insignificance, … Continue reading
Neal C. Wilson and the Global Turn in Seventh-day Adventism
Neal C. Wilson (July 5, 1920-December 14, 2010) led the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists from 1979 to 1990 and was the most important administrator of modern Adventism. He presided over a decade of rapid global growth, large institutional reorganization, … Continue reading