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Author Archives: Luke Ford
The Sovereign Decision: What the Laws of War Say About Who Rules
Every legal system requires someone to decide what the law cannot cover. The rules run out at some point — in the hard case, the emergency, the situation the drafters did not anticipate — and at that point someone must … Continue reading
Redemption Machines: Hero Systems in the History of the Laws of War
The laws of war endure not because they solve violence but because they offer those who administer them a way to believe that violence can be redeemed. This is not a cynical observation. It is a structural one. Any system … Continue reading
The Sorting Machine: Innocence as Political Demand in the Laws of War
The law does not merely protect the innocent. It produces them. To receive protection under the laws of war, a person must first satisfy a set of conditions that have nothing to do with their moral worth and everything to … Continue reading
Diagnoses of Suffering: Competing Causal Theories in the Laws of War
Every legal system embeds a theory of harm. To prohibit something you must first decide what causes it, and to assign responsibility you must first decide who or what drives the causal chain. Criminal law answers these questions for individual … Continue reading
The Plumber Standard: Stephen Turner, Habermas, and the Limits of Expert Authority
Stephen Turner’s critique of Jürgen Habermas cuts to the heart of how we understand knowledge, expertise, and democratic life. Habermas argues that expert cultures make genuine democratic discussion impossible. He sees experts as hidden policymakers who operate behind a wall … Continue reading
Obituary For Iconoclastic Alexander Technique Teacher David Arthur Gorman
Obituary: David Arthur Gorman was born on February 3, 1950, in Kitchener, Ontario. He was an artist, a scientist, a writer, and above all, a lifelong explorer. He was driven by a profound curiosity about understanding how things work, in … Continue reading
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Libertarian Author Brian Doherty Is Dead At Age 57
I often bring out the worst in people, but with author Brian Doherty, I only got his best. He was kinder to me than I was to myself. This is Burning Man Reason magazine associate editor Brian Doherty drives up … Continue reading
The Jurisdictional Wars: Alliance Theory and the Battle for Power in the History and Practice of International Humanitarian Law
Nobody in international humanitarian law says they want power over the definition of legitimate violence. They say they protect the vulnerable, humanize war, or fill gaps in the law. That is the move. Interpretive authority is a status claim wrapped … Continue reading
The Most Lopsided War I Can Remember
Three weeks into the war, a question keeps surfacing: why has Iran’s retaliation been so underwhelming? The pre-war simulations imagined something far more devastating. Iran had missiles, drones, proxies across the region, and decades of asymmetric doctrine. What the simulations … Continue reading