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Author Archives: Luke Ford
Elizabeth S. Anderson and the Recovery of Relational Equality
Elizabeth S. Anderson (b. 1959) holds the John Dewey Distinguished University Professorship of Philosophy and Women’s & Gender Studies at the University of Michigan, with a courtesy appointment as Professor of Law. She has taught there since 1987, the year … Continue reading
The Translator: Desmond Ford and the Limits of Adventist Reform
Desmond Ford (1929-2019) is a regional theologian whose career marks the limits of an apocalyptic sect’s encounter with modern biblical scholarship. He has currency within parts of Seventh-day Adventism. He has none outside it. Those two sentences shape everything else … Continue reading
‘Between East and West: The Life and Works of Rabbi Jehiel Jacob Weinberg’
Marc B. Shapiro (b. 1966) opens his 1995 Harvard thesis with a dramatic story. Larry McEnerney would mark it up approvingly. He would also find places where Shapiro reverts to graduate-school habits. Look at the first sentence of the preface. … Continue reading
LEADERSHIP LAB: The Craft of Writing Effectively
Larry McEnerney teaches one core argument across all four Youtube transcripts. Writing in the adult world has nothing to do with what schools teach. Schools train you to write to teachers paid to read your work and assess you. Out … Continue reading
I Like To Decode Rhetorical Moves
My dad did a PhD in Rhetoric. He was good at arguing. He won all the debates around our dinner table. He assigned me dozens of works of Christian apologetics. I read them all, typed daily one-page summaries of my … Continue reading
Eugene Volokh: The Edge-Case Constitutionalist
Eugene Volokh (b. 1968) is a prolific voice in contemporary American constitutional law. A Soviet émigré, child mathematical prodigy turned computer programmer, Supreme Court clerk, and now Thomas M. Siebel Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution after thirty years as … Continue reading
The Chained Woman as Coalition Pressure Point
The agunah problem (wives without a Jewish divorce) provides a clean test case for David Pinsof’s Alliance Theory in Orthodox halakha. The textual material is indeterminate. The Talmud, the Rishonim, the Acharonim, and the modern responsa supply enough raw material … Continue reading
The Crown Reclaimed: An Alliance Theory of Ovadia Yosef
Ovadia Yosef builds a coalition before he builds a movement. The coalition comes first because the coalition is the point. His base is the Mizrahi population of Israel, the Jews who came from Arab lands and arrived to find an … Continue reading
From Margin to Center: How the Lithuanian Haredi Stance Captured Power in Israel, 1967–1980
In June 1967, the central Haredi public, the world of Agudat Yisrael, met the war with euphoria. HaModia compared the IDF’s advance to the Exodus. Daglenu (דגלנו, “Our Banner” was the journal of Tze’irei Agudat Yisrael, the youth movement of … Continue reading
Why the Salanter Project Failed: An Interior Practice Inside a Coalitional Community
Israel Salanter (1809-1893) wanted Jews to do interior ethical work. He wanted each man to sit alone, audit his own conduct, and struggle in private with his own corruption. He wanted Mussar to run as a parallel discipline to Talmud, … Continue reading