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- Full Faith and Credit
- The Conquest of the Creature
- The Index of His Father
- The Hero System That Says Its Name: Moshe Hillel Hirsch and the Greatness of Man
- Who Keeps the People Alive: A Hero-System Essay on Rabbi Dov Lando
- The Man Who Priced The Long Run
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- Redemption Has an Address: The Hero System of Bezalel Smotrich
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Author Archives: Luke Ford
Marc Shapiro: ‘Abraham Rosenberg, R. Chaim Heller, R. Shlomo Zalman Auerbach on Conversion, Abortion, Mercy Killings, and new pictures and videos of R. Jehiel Jacob Weinberg’
March Shapiro writes May 8, 2024: I discussed the enigmatic plagiarizer Abraham Rosenberg. As we saw, in 1923 and 1924 Rosenberg published articles on the Jerusalem Talmud in the Orthodox journal Jeschurun, and he later published Al Devar Tikunei Nushaot … Continue reading
The Market For Chastisement
One thing that surprised me in my journey into Judaism was how user-friendly it was. From the outside, Orthodox Judaism looked intimidating. From the inside, it was sweet. While my conversion was not easy, that was largely due to my … Continue reading
Prof. Kimmy Caplan – Israeli Historian Of Orthodox Judaism
In 1998, Kimmy Caplan published In God We Trust: Salaries and Income of American Orthodox Rabbis, 1881-1924 He puts the immigrant Orthodox rabbinate next to East European mitnagdic rabbis on one side and Reform rabbis and Orthodox cantors on the … Continue reading
‘The New Haredism: Revolution in the Seventies’
I first heard about this Israeli historian of Haredi Judaism, Yair Halevy, from Marc Shapiro’s lecture series on the Langer Affair. Halevy’s dissertation is titled מהפכת החרדיות החדשה בשנות השבעים, “The New Haredism: Revolution in the Seventies.” He submitted it … Continue reading
The Theorist’s Overlay: Stephen Turner on the Vanishing of the Normative
Stephen Turner’s project on normativity is to dissolve a set of claims that have organized social science and philosophy for over a century. The claims hold that human action is governed by norms, that norms are real things distinct from … Continue reading
Love, Marriage & Constitutional Law
Robert Post (b. 1947) and Reva Siegel (b. 1956) are a married couple at Yale Law. Post was Yale Law’s dean from 2009 to 2017. Siegel is the Nicholas deB. Katzenbach Professor of Law. They have co-authored extensively, including the … Continue reading
Legal Scholars Go Quiet On Structures That Serve Legal Scholars
The pattern repeats across multiple structures the legal academy once criticized when it constrained them and stopped examining once it benefited them. Legal scholars produced a small body of writing on anti-nepotism rules and their evolution. The civil rights literature … Continue reading
The Two-Tier Country: How American Elites Live Inside the Rules They Write for You
A Note on Scope This essay does not argue that elite institutions are corrupt. Corruption is the wrong frame. The frame is sociological. American elites operate inside a system in which formal rules are universal and operational rules are stratified … Continue reading
The Two-Body Solution: What Power Couples in Elite Law Schools Tell Us About American Law
The American legal academy has produced a great body of scholarship on equal protection, on disparate impact, on the procedural rules that govern the rest of the country. The same academy has produced almost nothing on the procedural rules that … Continue reading
The Re-Founder: Clarence Thomas and the Originalist Project
Clarence Thomas was born in Pin Point, Georgia, in 1948. The town sat on the Gullah coast near Savannah. His father left when he was small. His mother could not feed him and his brother. After a house fire, his … Continue reading