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Author Archives: Luke Ford
Overrated Philosophers
This crowd enjoys a cultural standing beyond their merit because they fill coalition needs. Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) is the patron of Jewish liberal humanities intellectuals. Origins of Totalitarianism is powerful as literary-historical writing but soft as causal analysis. Many historians … Continue reading
How Oz Pearlman Does It: The Architecture of Modern Mentalism
Oz Pearlman makes no claim to supernatural ability. He says he reads people, not minds. The distinction anchors his craft. The performance layers older trades: stage magic, cold reading, behavioral observation, mnemonic training, and the social calibration of a skilled … Continue reading
The Tempered Mind: Mark Lilla and the Containment of Political Theology
Mark Lilla (b. 1956) was born in Detroit, Michigan, the son of working-class Catholic parents. By his own account, he passed through an adolescent evangelical conversion, a long stretch of close Bible reading, and then a return to secular life … Continue reading
Steven B. Smith and the Vocation of Liberal Education
Steven B. Smith (b. 1951) belongs to a fading generation of political theorists who treat the older humanistic understanding of their subject as compatible with, and even necessary for, the modern research university. Across four decades at Yale, where he … Continue reading
‘Yoram Hazony | What Winning Looks Like, and How We Could Lose | NatCon 5’ (Sep. 2, 2025)
This speech is more candid than anything Hazony puts in writing. He admits the right’s antisemitism problem in public. He names the pattern without naming the men. “Some of them people I used to admire” who have made a turn … Continue reading
The First Deposition in Dennis Prager’s Lawsuit Against Cedars-Sinai et al is Scheduled for Today
Here is a copy of Dennis Prager’s complaint. It was filed March 13, 2026 in Los Angeles Superior Court, case number 26SMCV01561, by attorney Heather E. Gibson of the Law Offices of Heather Gibson, P.C., Santa Clara, California, on behalf … Continue reading
‘Marx was not Woke’
In April, 2023, Paul Gottfried reviewed in Chronicles magazine the 2022 Yoram Hazony book Conservatism: A Rediscovery: Marx was not in the least concerned with nonbinary oppression, raging homophobia, or the inherently evil nature of being white. This father of … Continue reading
Russ Roberts: From Chicago Price Theory to Practical Wisdom
Russell David Roberts (b. 1954) got his PhD through the University of Chicago, took the discipline’s tools seriously, and then spent four decades arguing that those tools cannot answer the questions that matter most. Roberts grew up in Memphis. He … Continue reading
Yes, Minister
Yes, Minister and Yes, Prime Minister dramatize Turner’s argument about tacit knowledge as well as anything in popular form has. Antony Jay (1930-2016) and Jonathan Lynn (b. 1943) built the shows on long interviews with civil servants, and they caught … Continue reading
Yoram Hazony & the Custodianship Question
Hazony inverts the consensus school’s move at every step. The consensus historians dissolved Jewish particularity into American universalism so they could enter Protestant institutions. Hazony reconstructs particularity to defend a Jewish nation against the universalism those same Jews helped build. … Continue reading