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Author Archives: Luke Ford
Nathan Cofnas: ‘Cambridge University’s War on Free Speech’
Nathan Cofnas writes May 11: After accepting a job at Cambridge on the promise of free speech, I was betrayed the moment the administration determined that free speech was inconvenient for them. I was effectively driven off campus with threats … Continue reading
‘Medicine Without Merit’
Dr. Forrest Bohler writes for Compact: The requirements for admission into medical school vary markedly depending on who the applicant is. According to data from the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC), the academic thresholds required for acceptance differ substantially … Continue reading
Covenant Against Empire: The Project of Yoram Hazony
Part Two Yoram Reuben Hazony (b. 1964) belongs to a small group of contemporary thinkers who build not only books but movements. He writes philosophy, founds institutes, recruits donors, organizes conferences, and places himself at the center of a global … Continue reading
Why Philosophy Polices Harder Than Law
Philosophy enforces tighter coalitional discipline than legal academia because the structural conditions on a philosopher are tighter than those on a law professor. Start with size. A top philosophy department has fifteen to twenty-five faculty. A top law school has … Continue reading
‘DEI in Science and Medicine: Missing Metrics and Measures’
‘The War on Science: Thirty-Nine Renowned Scientists and Scholars Speak Out About Current Threats to Free Speech, Open Inquiry, and the Scientific Process‘ (July 29, 2025) The chapter “DEI in Science and Medicine: Missing Metrics and Measures” appears in the … Continue reading
Amy Wax & Nathan Cofnas: The Parallels & Differences
Both began as careful technical scholars and ended as public polemicists treated as discredited within their original institutional homes. The shape of the trajectory is the shared fact. The substantive content of the turn, the timing, and the institutional response … Continue reading
A Literary Analysis Of Amy Wax
Amy Wax’s prose changes more than her positions do. Reading the forty-plus pieces in sequence shows a writer whose convictions stay roughly stable from 1996 through 2026 while her relationship to the page, the reader, and the academy shifts in … Continue reading
Reading Patrick McKenzie on the SPLC: ‘Defendant, Censor, Politico, Spy’
McKenzie says: One coalition of non-profit organizations ran an organized pressure campaign against industry, for years. It started in 2017, with the SPLC and another non-profit informally coordinating. It intensified and formalized in 2018, under SPLC co-leadership. It escalated sharply … Continue reading
The Reconstructive Mind: An Intellectual Biography of Dan Sperber
Dan Sperber (b. 1942) was born in Cagnes-sur-Mer on the French Riviera. His father, the Austrian-French novelist Manès Sperber (1905-1984), broke from the Communist Party in the 1930s and wrote about ideological capture and political faith. His parents, both non-religious … Continue reading
Back Pain
I almost never have back pain as long as I keep up daily core exercises such as planks, except when I have been sitting all day and then go for a walk where I step off a sidewalk and the … Continue reading