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Author Archives: Luke Ford
Ten Convenient Beliefs For Economists In America Today
Models that assume rational actors and efficient markets are useful simplifications rather than ideological commitments that happen to justify existing distributions of wealth and power. Convenient because the entire apparatus of mainstream economics is built on these assumptions and abandoning … Continue reading
Ten Convenient Beliefs For Academics In America Today
Peer review is the gold standard for distinguishing reliable knowledge from unreliable knowledge. This belief protects the guild’s gatekeeping authority while framing what is essentially a coalition credentialing system as an epistemic achievement. Academic freedom requires tenure, and tenure requires … Continue reading
Ten Convenient Beliefs For American Attorneys Today
These are beliefs that serve attorneys’ material and status interests while feeling like principled commitments. The adversarial system produces just outcomes better than any alternative. This belief justifies the attorney’s entire role and income while framing what is essentially a … Continue reading
Democracy in America
I respect Alexis De Tocqueville’s Democracy in America for its stories. I respect how it serves academic status claims and fetish games. I respect that this book by a French aristocrat flatters intellectuals and that they love playing with it … Continue reading
Americans Don’t Care About The Middle East
The most durable finding in American political science is that foreign policy rarely drives elections. Voters care about prices, jobs, crime, and whether their children can afford a house. Wars and alliances live at the periphery of electoral math except … Continue reading
Private vs Public Polls
During the 2024 presidential election campaign, Mark Halperin regularly shared with his audience what he learned from the campaigns’ private polls. Private polls are better funded and far more accurate than public polls. By listening to Halperin, I knew for … Continue reading
‘The “Good bad theory” case in emotion analytics: AI’s potential and limits for social theory’
This 2026 paper by Andrey V. Rezaev and Natalia D. Tregubova says: Stephen Turner presented, in a quite different sense, the term “good bad theory” in his book Explaining the Normative (2010). He uses the term to characterize common sense … Continue reading
Why Do LLMs Capitalize ‘Black’ But Not ‘White’?
Claude says: Convention, not conviction. The Associated Press and most major outlets capitalized Black as a proper noun referring to a cultural and ethnic identity while leaving white lowercase on the grounds that white Americans lack the same shared historical … Continue reading
The Caitlin Clark Economy
I love sports. I am so liberal and broad-minded that when feeling desperate enough for a fix, I can even watch women’s soccer when it is the national team in a World Cup final, but I find the WNBA unwatchable … Continue reading
The Law vs The Nature
What law-abiding Americans experience in their most private lives is not random frustration but a structural conflict between two systems solving different problems. Evolution optimizes individuals for reproductive success. Law optimizes coalitions for stability. When those two logics collide, the … Continue reading