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- From Jerusalem to the Backlot: The Two Careers of Sharon Waxman
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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
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Author Archives: Luke Ford
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
The Critic: Cofnas, Cambridge and academic freedom
The Critic posts March 20, 2026: In one of the most closely watched campus free speech cases in recent years, the County Court has delivered a mixed verdict on a claim brought by Cambridge academic Dr Nathan Cofnas, confirming that … Continue reading
Nathan Cofnas: The Auditor at the Border
Part Two Born in 1987 to Jewish parents, philosopher of biology Nathan Cofnas said in a Dec. 4, 2023 interview: “I grew up on the upper west side of Manhattan, a world headquarters of political correctness. I went to school … Continue reading
Jerry Z. Muller and the Limits of System
Jerry Z. Muller spent his career at the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C., never moving to an Ivy League department, never trading independence for the prestige circuits that shape most historians of his generation. He retired in 2020 … Continue reading
Meir Soloveitchik Could be a Real Thinker
David N. Myers and Pini Dunner, “A Haredi Attack on Rabbi Joseph Ber Soloveitchik: A Battle over the Brisker Legacy.” Jewish Quarterly Review 105, no. 1 (2015) This is Myers co-authoring with Pini Dunner, who is a complicated figure inside … Continue reading
The Evolutionary Mystery Of Humor
David Pinsof writes in his new paper (and Substack column): * Human social life is filled with coordination problems: passing each other in a hallway, taking turns talking and listening, differentiating the meanings of “hook up with” and “meet up … Continue reading
Why Do People Call Various Beliefs ‘Cancer’?
Alliance Theory treats moral language as coalition technology. Words like “evil,” “racist,” “fascist,” and “cancer” do not primarily describe the world. They mark sides, recruit allies, and coordinate action against enemies. The vocabulary tracks who you stand with more than … Continue reading
Michael P. Kramer: ‘Critical Narcissism and the Coming-of-Age of Jewish American Literary Studies’ (2004)
Janet Burstein wrote in the Forward Sep. 26, 2003: Critical preoccupation with “the notion of Israel as a sacred homeland to which Jews in diaspora are longing to return” runs like a subtext through several essays by American-born critics who … Continue reading
David Hollinger: ‘Rich, Powerful, and Smart: Jewish Overrepresentation Should Be Explained Instead of Avoided or Mystified’ (2004)
Hollinger writes as if breaking a taboo. He frames the essay as a brave departure from a field that looks away. The opening does the work: a distinguished historian privately suspects the answer is genetic. The reader feels the chill. … Continue reading