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Author Archives: Luke Ford
The Question MO Will Not Ask
Do you accept historicism (that everything is a product of a time and place)? If not, on what grounds? The question is simple to state. It is difficult to answer. It is the question Modern Orthodox scholarship will not ask, … Continue reading
When History Becomes Revelation: Goren, Freyer, and the Historicist Problem in Modern Orthodox Halakha
R. Shlomo Goren (1917–1994) developed a theology of history that placed the State of Israel within a redemptive historical narrative he treated as halakhically operative. The wars of 1948 and 1967 are not merely military events to be processed by … Continue reading
What Hollander Does Not Say: Pinsof’s Frame and the Coalitional Silences of a Religious Zionist Sociologist
David Pinsof’s essay “A Big Misunderstanding” attacks intellectuals who diagnose social pathologies as misunderstandings. The classic move: people are biased, ignorant, propagandized; the intellectual brings clarity; the problem dissolves once the diagnosis spreads. R. Aviad Hollander is not the intellectual … Continue reading
Halakhic Liberal Democracy 3.0: Expert Capture in Sperber’s Project and Hollander’s Analysis
R. Daniel Sperber’s Modern Orthodoxy project wants to give more power to experts with elite secular educations such as himself. Stephen Turner’s work on expertise and democracy is a good tool for examining the expert capture of a communal practice. … Continue reading
R. Daniel Sperber and the Historicization of Halakha
R. Daniel Sperber (b. 1940) occupies an unusual position in postwar Orthodox Jewish scholarship. He combines the sensibility of a classical philologist with the responsibilities of a working halakhist, and the result is a body of work that has reshaped … Continue reading
Strange Bedfellows in the Beit Midrash: Coalition Politics in Sperber’s Project and Hollander’s Analysis
David Pinsof, David O. Sears, and Martie G. Haselton’s “Strange Bedfellows: The Alliance Theory of Political Belief Systems” gives the reader the tools to see what Hollander cannot see and what Sperber cannot afford to admit. The framework is simple. … Continue reading
Marc Shapiro: ‘Comments on recent books by R. Benji Levy and R. Eitam Henkin; R. Joseph B. Soloveitchik; and the first color photographs of R. Jehiel Jacob Weinberg’
Marc B. Shapiro’s Levy and Henkin reviews each carry a sharp critical point. The Soloveitchik archive material is good for what it shows about how the Rav functioned in practice and how scholarship on him gets shaped by selective access … Continue reading
Convenient Beliefs in the Halakhic Beit Midrash: Sperber, Hollander, and the Sociology of What Cannot Be Said
Applying Stephen Turner’s frame of convenient beliefs to the Daniel Sperber controversy yields reinterprets a beit midrash that has become methodologically aware of itself. Convenient beliefs, in Turner’s account, are the beliefs that survive within a profession because holding them … Continue reading
DEI Discriminates Against Whites
Steve Sailer asks the wrong question. He treats non-grasping as a cognitive failure. It is a coalitional achievement. The Bryant Rousseau case shows the operation. The hiring pool for deputy real-estate editor: a White woman, a Black man, an Asian … Continue reading
NYT: What Are ‘Teen Takeovers’ and Why Are Police Struggling to Stop Them?
The New York Times says: “Across the country, police and city officials are trying to crack down on sometimes violent youth gatherings, but the teens themselves say they need some way to socialize and blow off steam.” Steve Sailer writes: … Continue reading