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Author Archives: Luke Ford
The Live Questions in Sociology
AI helped me with this post. The live questions, sorted on two axes that come apart: consequence outside the discipline, and reward inside it. First, whether sociology is a science or a movement. It ranks first on consequence and last … Continue reading
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What are the Live Questions in Economics Now?
AI helped me with this post. Tariff incidence and the sequel to the ruling comes first. Who bears the cost, over what horizon, and what happens when a tax is removed. Gopinath and Neiman own the aggregate accounting. Mary Amiti, … Continue reading
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Why Do So Many University Professors Hate AI?
AI helped me with this post. With change, there are winners and losers. With change, some things get better and some things get worse. I don’t share the hysteria about AI in any direction because I accept that life is … Continue reading
I Finally Read The Novel ‘Submission’
The second paragraph of Submission is silly and cliche. So it goes, in the remaining Western social democracies, when you finish your studies, but most students don’t notice right away because they’re hypnotised by the desire for money or, if … Continue reading
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Had We But World Enough: On Reading Marvell at Twenty Two
AI helped me with this post. Every year, in every English-speaking country, several hundred thousand adolescents receive a photocopy of the finest argument for sex ever written in English and are asked to identify the metaphysical conceits. The teacher discusses … Continue reading
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On Loving John Donne
AI helped me with this post. Stanley Fish opens his essay on Donne with a confession. For years he could not teach the poems. He had nothing good to say about them. He kept returning with approval to C. S. … Continue reading
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Iran Declines as an Empire and Survives as a Veto Power
Written with AI: Iran will probably decline as an empire and survive as a veto power. That is the base case for 2031. The United States and Israel struck Iran on February 28, 2026. Iran answered with missiles and drones … Continue reading
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The Rescue Witness: How Former Performers Became the Face of the Fight Against Pornography
AI helped me with this post. The Sands Expo Convention Center in Las Vegas holds the Adult Entertainment Expo every January. The aisles fill with middle-aged men wearing lanyards and cameras, moving from booth to booth for autographs and photographs. … Continue reading
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Christian Smith: A Career Against Reduction
AI helped me with this post. On February 13, 2026, First Things published an essay by Christian Smith (b. October 23, 1960) called “Why I’m Done with Notre Dame.” Its first sentence said he retired at the end of 2025. … Continue reading
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Can’t We All Get Along?
I ask Gemini: “Do you find various sub-species living in harmony in the same place in nature or does one tend to drive out the others?” Gemini says: In nature, distinct subspecies of the same animal rarely live in the … Continue reading
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