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"This guy knows all the gossip, the ins and outs, the lashon hara of the Orthodox world. He’s an [expert] in... all the inner workings of the Orthodox world." (Rabbi Aaron Rakeffet-Rothkoff) LATEST POSTS:
- Nikki Finke: A Life in Deadline Hollywood
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- Lynn Hunt and the Cultural Turn
- The Jewish Jesus and His Interpreters: Amy-Jill Levine and the Return of the New Testament to Second Temple Judaism
- The Keeper of the Dead: Timothy Snyder’s Hero System
- How Wide the We: David Hollinger and the Quarrel Over Solidarity
- The Anarchists’ Son in Perry Miller’s Chair
- Ruth Wisse Against the Schlemiel
- The Man Who Lived in the Conjunction: A Hero System Reading of Stephen J. Whitfield
- The Hero System of Literary Critic Robert Alter
- ‘The journey is over. Love to all.’
- The Private Case
- Eager to Fight: The Hero System of John Podhoretz
- The Hero System of Norman Podhoretz
- Cynthia Ozick’s Hero System: The Idol and the Word
- The Editor Who Decided What Survives: Jules Chametzky and the Hero System of the Canon
- Good Faith and Its Strangers: The Hero System of William Shernoff
- The Whistle in the Garden: Leo Marx’s Hero System
- The Self-Fathered Man: Daniel Aaron’s America
- I Can’t Remember A Leader As Unpredictable As Trump
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* ‘I’m So Trained’: How The Credential Society Burned Down the Palisades (12-28-25)
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Author Archives: Luke Ford
A Memoir as Apparatus: David Duke’s My Awakening
David Duke’s My Awakening: A Path to Racial Understanding, published in 1998, runs to roughly 700 pages and presents itself as both autobiography and treatise. The book describes Duke’s life from his childhood in Tulsa and the Hague through his … Continue reading
Theology as History: E. Michael Jones and the Problem of the Single Cause
The Jewish Revolutionary Spirit and Its Impact on World History (2008) by E. Michael Jones presents a theology of history as history. The book runs nearly 1,200 pages, footnotes heavily, and covers terrain from the Gospel of John through Bolshevism, … Continue reading
Meta-Expertise and the Accountability Collapse: Columbia, the IMF, and 9/11
Stephen Turner’s two case studies, “Expertise and Political Responsibility: The Columbia Shuttle Catastrophe” in The Politics of Expertise (Routledge 2014) and “Expertise and Complex Organizations” in The Oxford Handbook of Expertise and Democratic Politics edited by Gil Eyal and Thomas … Continue reading
The Long Argument of Andrew Napolitano
Andrew Napolitano was born in Newark in 1950 to an Italian-American Catholic family. He took his bachelor’s degree at Princeton in 1972, where he wrote a senior thesis on the origins of representative government in the Massachusetts Bay Colony. He … Continue reading
Ernst Mayr: Population Thinking and the Shape of Modern Biology
Ernst Mayr is born on July 5, 1904, in Kempten, Bavaria. His father Otto works as a district prosecutor and keeps a serious amateur interest in natural history. The boys learn bird identification on family walks, and Ernst absorbs the … Continue reading
The Synthesizer at Stanford: An Intellectual Biography of Robert Sapolsky
Robert Sapolsky was born in Brooklyn in 1957 to Soviet Jewish immigrants. His father worked as an architect. His mother kept an Orthodox household. As a boy he haunted the African dioramas at the American Museum of Natural History. By … Continue reading
The Ashkenazi Century: On the Reach and Limits of Yuri Slezkine’s The Jewish Century
Yuri Slezkine published The Jewish Century in 2004 (and a new edition came out in 2019). The book argues that the modern age is a Jewish age. It frames the twentieth century as the moment when the world became urban, … Continue reading
Which Famous Books Most Need An Audit?
In 2018, Nathan Cofnas published in Human Nature a magnificent deconstruction of Kevin MacDonald’s book, Culture of Critique. It was the product of a year’s work. The audit was consequential because four conditions held. The book had wide influence in … Continue reading
Michael Scheuer – The Analyst Outside the Walls
Michael Scheuer was born in Buffalo in 1952 and trained as a historian. He took degrees from Canisius College, Niagara University, Carleton University, and the University of Manitoba, where he completed a doctorate on British Empire relations with the United … Continue reading
The Priest and the Larrikin
Rory Sutherland posts on X: “Americans still like to believe that journalists are a kind of priestly caste, with a higher calling; in Britain they have traditionally been seen as disfunctional larrikins; mischievous, shit-stirring chancers, somewhat beneath the salt. Depictions … Continue reading