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Author Archives: Luke Ford
The Jurisdictional Wars: Alliance Theory and the Battle for Australian Aboriginal Authority
Yirrkala, an aboriginal tribe in Australia’s Norther Territory, does not look like a site of jurisdictional conflict. It looks like a painting. Red earth meeting turquoise water. Mangroves. Sacred rock outcrops. The art centre. A dugong surfacing offshore. It looks … Continue reading
The Jurisdictional Wars: Alliance Theory and the Battle for The Madison (TV Show)
The Madison River Valley does not look like a site of jurisdictional conflict. It looks like a painting. Snow-capped mountains. Clear trout water. Rustic cabins. Fly fishermen in waders at dawn. It looks like the sort of Montana valley where … Continue reading
The Jurisdictional Wars: Alliance Theory and the Battle for Tannum Sands / Boyne Island Coastal Community Authority
Tannum Sands does not look like a site of jurisdictional conflict. It looks like a postcard. Beach. Esplanade. Surf club. Markets. A pelican somewhere. The kind of Queensland coastal town where people go to stop thinking about jurisdictional conflict. And … Continue reading
The Jurisdictional Wars: Alliance Theory and the Battle for Israeli Orthodox Jewish Authority
Orthodox Jews in Israel do not compete for authority by saying they want power. They compete by invoking moral languages that frame their authority as fidelity to halacha, loyalty to Torah life, responsibility for the Jewish people, or devotion to … Continue reading
The Madison
The Madison wrecks me because Taylor Sheridan turns a common human failure into the engine of the story. He understands that relationships rarely break from sudden betrayal. They erode from something quieter. The longer we live with people, the more … Continue reading
What the Summons Now Costs: Bondi Orthodoxy After December 14
The jurisdictional competition inside Bondi’s Orthodox community was usually about friendly collegial calibration between nice people. How strict. How visible. How much to yield to the rhythms of a secular Australian city without losing the density that makes the system … Continue reading
The Jurisdictional Wars: Alliance Theory and the Battle for Melbourne Orthodox Jewish Authority
Orthodox Jews in Caulfield and St Kilda do not compete for authority by declaring a desire for power. They compete by invoking moral languages that frame their claims as fidelity to halacha, loyalty to Torah life, and responsibility for sustaining … Continue reading
The Jurisdictional Wars: Alliance Theory and the Battle for Bondi
Orthodox Jews in Bondi and the Eastern Suburbs of Sydney do not compete for authority by declaring a desire for power. They compete by invoking moral languages that frame their claims as fidelity to halacha, loyalty to Torah life, and … Continue reading
Making Sense Of The World Through Evolution
David Pinsof writes: A lot of people ask me how I write blog posts—where I get my ideas from. They’re often surprised when I give them a precise, step-by-step answer. Here’s my patented ® formula for writing Everything Is Bullshit … Continue reading
The Jurisdictional Wars Alliance Theory and the battle for authority at Crikey
Crikey journalists do not compete for authority by declaring a desire for power. They compete by invoking moral languages that frame their claims as independence from Australia’s concentrated media system, loyalty to exposing how power operates, and responsibility for saying … Continue reading