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Author Archives: Luke Ford
Who Can Narrate?
David Pinsof, along with David O. Sears and Martie G. Haselton, introduced the Alliance Theory of Political Belief Systems in their 2023 paper “Strange Bedfellows” (Psychological Inquiry). The core argument is that political belief systems are not primarily coherent philosophies … Continue reading
The High Status See Hypocrisy As An Acceptable Tradeoff
Those with mid status see strain as confusion. Those low in status see contradiction as injustice. High status actors think in precedent and reputation. Their clock runs long. Mid status actors think in compliance and consequence. Their clock runs medium. … Continue reading
Decoding Rabbi Dov Linzer
Rabbi Dov Linzer is the Rosh HaYeshiva of Yeshivat Chovevei Torah (YCT). He serves as a guide to current students and a network of rabbis in the field, and he regularly publishes halakhic Q and A style responses that YCT … Continue reading
Avi Yemini: A Rebel From The Start: Setting The Record Straight
Avi writes in his 2023 memoir: * I laugh when critics accuse me of being an attention seeker. I’m the tenth of 17 children born to my mother within 20 years. I’ve been seeking attention my entire life just to … Continue reading
Australian Commentator Avi Yemini And His Dad Zephaniah Waks
Avi Yemini hosted his father, Zephaniah Waks, on the Opposition Podcast to discuss their family history, Zephaniah’s exit from ultra-Orthodox Judaism, and their current relationship. The conversation provides several details that supplement your notes on Alliance Theory and the Waks … Continue reading
The Rise & Fall Of Wife-Swapping
Why did it become a thing, a literary trope? It became a thing because it sat exactly at the fault line of mid-20th-century social contradictions, and literature loves fault lines. Why it emerged socially first. Postwar marriage was a pressure … Continue reading
Code of Silence Documentary About Sexual Abuse Inside Orthodox Judaism (2014)
YT: “CODE OF SILENCE, a one-hour COMPASS special, follows the parallel journeys of a fervently Orthodox Jewish father and his now-secular son, after the son breaks the code of silence in Melbourne’s Orthodox community and goes public with his story … Continue reading
The Biggest Challenges For Cognitive Coherence In Orthodox Judaism Now
Per Alliance Theory: These are the collision points where the lived social system demands one thing and some honest minds see another. What we see depends on the nature of our alliances. Social standing determines which contradictions are visible, which … Continue reading
The Lonely Path Of The Unauthorized Jewish Intellectual
The unauthorized Jewish intellectual occupies a specific structural position. He speaks in his own name, accepts the social cost, and refuses to let Jewish meaning be mediated entirely by rabbis, states, or universities. He writes for adults rather than committees. … Continue reading
Decoding Author Hyam Maccoby
Per Alliance Theory: Hyam Maccoby was an outsider intellectual who built authority by refusing every available alliance and then surviving anyway. His core move was inversion. He rejected the Christian scholarly consensus on Jesus and Paul not by becoming apologetic … Continue reading