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Author Archives: Luke Ford
Stephen P. Turner – The Philosopher of the Unstated
Stephen Park Turner was born in 1951 and grew up on the South Side of Chicago during a period of rapid racial succession, then in Miami at what he calls the edge of change. His father was a businessman whose … Continue reading
Andrew Gelman – The Gardener of Forking Paths
Andrew Gelman was born in Philadelphia in 1965 into a family with intellectual range. His sister Susan Gelman became a prominent developmental psychologist. His uncle Woody Gelman was a cartoonist. He attended MIT as a National Merit Scholar, earning degrees … Continue reading
The Oracle Who Knows He Is the Oracle Is Still the Oracle
Charles Taylor’s buffered self is the modern identity that has learned to maintain distance from its own enthusiasms, that experiences the world through a protective layer of interpretive awareness rather than being directly moved by what it encounters. The enchanted … Continue reading
Columbia Stats Professor Andrew Gelman On Replication & Political Behavior
I email Andrew Gelman: Looking at the current state of the social sciences, do you think the culture of research has genuinely changed since the replication crisis became widely discussed, or has it mostly generated new compliance rituals around pre-registration … Continue reading
The Columbia School of Journalism: Hero System, Coalition Technology, and the Reporting Problem Nobody Names
Tenured full professors, the Dean, the Dean of Academic Affairs, the Director of the Toni Stabile Center for Investigative Journalism, and the senior hiring-committee gatekeepers at the Columbia School of Journalism do not compete for authority by saying they want … Continue reading
How much confidence should you place in hidden earthquake compliance inside LA’s speculative real estate market?
Dan Luu writes: “If you talk to trades in Vancouver about how this works, the builders give contractors timelines and budgets that are impossible to meet without severely cutting corners. It is also the case that their buildings often have … Continue reading
The System Still Counts
The Pittsburgh Trauma Medical Center (PTMC) does not exist, but it does a great deal of cultural work. The Pitt, Max’s real-time emergency medicine drama, unfolds across a single fifteen-hour shift, one episode per hour, and its formal commitment to … Continue reading
‘The ideological orientation of academic social science research 1960–2024’
James Manzi does something deceptively simple in his new paper. He stops asking who professors are and starts asking what the university produces. By coding roughly 600,000 English-language social science abstracts published between 1960 and 2024 against a fixed 2025 … Continue reading
Decoding The Wharton Finance Department
Tenured full professors, the Department Chair, the Senior Vice Dean for Finance, the Academic Directors of the Harris Family Alternative Investments Program and Jacobs Levy Equity Management Center, and the senior hiring-committee gatekeepers at the Wharton Finance Department do not … Continue reading
Yale’s English Department & The Culture of Discipline
Tenured full professors, the Director of Graduate Studies, the Department Chair, and the senior hiring-committee gatekeepers at the Yale English Department do not compete for authority by saying they want power. They compete by invoking languages of Close Reading Excellence, … Continue reading