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Author Archives: Luke Ford
Ten Convenient Beliefs For Leaders At Columbia University Now
Columbia’s administration believes that its response to the 2024 protests reflected principled commitment to both free expression and campus safety rather than a series of panicked improvisations driven by donor pressure, congressional intimidation, and the administration’s inability to articulate a … Continue reading
Ten Convenient Beliefs For Social Psychologists In America Today
Social psychology’s findings about bias, conformity, priming, and situational influence apply robustly to other people and to society generally rather than being primarily tools for understanding and intervening in the behavior of the undergraduate psychology students whose responses generated most … Continue reading
Ten Convenient Beliefs For Ethicists In America Today
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 Trump Haters In America Today
Donald Trump is a unique and unprecedented threat to American democracy rather than an extreme expression of tendencies, executive overreach, norm violation, and institutional capture, that preceded him, that his opponents practiced in milder forms, and that the system’s structural … Continue reading
Ten Convenient Beliefs For Trump Lovers In America Today
Donald Trump is a political outsider fighting the establishment on behalf of ordinary Americans rather than a wealthy celebrity who spent decades cultivating relationships with the same political, media, and financial elites he now claims to oppose, whose policy record … Continue reading
Ten Convenient Beliefs For Sex Workers In America Today
Sex work is work, identical in morally relevant respects to other forms of service labor, and treating it as categorically different reflects puritanical cultural bias rather than any genuine distinction in what the work involves or what it does to … Continue reading
Ten Convenient Beliefs For Bankers In America Today
Financial innovation creates value for the broader economy rather than primarily redistributing existing wealth toward those sophisticated enough to extract it while creating systemic risks that are eventually socialized through bailouts and monetary policy. Convenient because it justifies the complexity … Continue reading
Ten Convenient Beliefs For Dentists In America Today
Dental health is so distinct from general health that it requires a completely separate professional training system, insurance structure, and delivery network. Convenient because this separation protects dentistry’s guild autonomy, prevents physicians and nurse practitioners from performing routine dental procedures, … Continue reading
Ten Convenient Beliefs For Doctors In America Today
Clinical guidelines represent the best available evidence rather than the negotiated consensus of specialty society committees whose members have financial relationships with the manufacturers of the treatments being recommended. Convenient because following guidelines protects physicians from malpractice liability while outsourcing … Continue reading
Ten Convenient Beliefs For Social Workers In America Today
The relationship between client and social worker is fundamentally collaborative rather than supervisory and coercive. Convenient because it allows social workers to exercise substantial power over vulnerable people’s lives while experiencing themselves as helpers rather than agents of state control. … Continue reading