Author Archives: Luke Ford

About Luke Ford

I've written five books (see Amazon.com). My work has been covered in the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, and on 60 Minutes. I teach Alexander Technique in Beverly Hills (Alexander90210.com).

Who Determines The Winning Narrative? (6-16-24)

01:00 Who determines the winning narrative? https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=15558303:00 Christian nationalism as niche construction, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=15545905:00 LEADERSHIP LAB: The Craft of Writing Effectively, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtIzMaLkCaM10:00 Electronic Intifada: How the Gaza genocide will lead to Israel’s collapse, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ly7qO9fGYZA41:20 Dooovid joins, https://x.com/RebDoooovid42:00 The stories we tell … Continue reading

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The Program Era: Postwar Fiction and the Rise of Creative Writing

Mark McGurl writes in this 2011 book: …the creative writing program produces… a literature aptly suited to a programmatic society. …Postwar American literature provides endless testimony, for starters, of the agonizing importance of the institution of the family in making … Continue reading

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Who Determines The Winning Narrative?

What makes for a winning story? For example, the poets gave us the narrative of WWI to which all other English-language narratives must bow. Why did that happen? Was it due to the poets vibrating at a higher level than … Continue reading

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Decoding Christian Nationalism

Every organism acts on its environment, often for its own benefit and often against the benefit of other organisms. Why would Christians not act like other organisms? Why would they be more passive than earthworms, lemon ants, beavers and the … Continue reading

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Revolutions in International Law: The Legacies of 1917

Amanda Alexander writes in this 2022 book: Lenin at Nuremberg: Anti-Imperialism and the Juridification of Crimes against Humanity The Nuremberg trials stand as a pivotal moment in any history of international law, international humanitarian law, international criminal law and international … Continue reading

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