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Author Archives: Luke Ford
David Myers & The Neutralization Theory of Hatred
UCLA historian David N. Myers spends his career mapping how Jewish communities build and police collective self-understanding. The Sell paper gives a functional theory of one of the forces that does the policing. Hatred, on this account, is not an … Continue reading
History as Ideology: The Case of David N. Myers, Critical-Zionist Historian Par Excellence
I To readers of American Jewish intellectual life, the name David N. Myers is synonymous with a sophisticated critical engagement with Zionist historiography from within the Jewish studies profession. Myers has devoted four decades to exposing the ideological saturation of … Continue reading
‘The Jewish Stake in America’s Changing Demography’
In this 2001 essay, Stephen Steinlight got the direction right on most predictions and the timing wrong on almost all of them. He predicted Muslims would surpass American Jews in population within twenty years. They have not. The American Jewish … Continue reading
The Coalition Will See You Now
SCENE: A Manhattan study, lined with sefarim. A RABBI sits at a desk, wearing a dark suit and kippah. A small bust of Lincoln sits prominently on the shelf. He is mid-sentence, speaking to camera. RABBI: As Lincoln said in … Continue reading
Platform, Pulpit, Archive: Three Models of MO Rabbinic Self-Presentation in Los Angeles
While surfing Rabbi Pini Dunner’s website, I learned: Mavericks, Mystics and False Messiahs NOW AVAILABLE! “A thoroughly engaging introduction to some of the most colorful episodes in Jewish history. A wonderfully enjoyable read.” – Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks “Rabbi Pini … Continue reading
The Vibe Shift
Richard Hanania writes: “In 2024, 13.4% of faculty job ads required a dedicated DEI statement. By 2025, that figure had fallen to just 2.5%.” I told you it all came down to civil rights law. Nathan Cofnas responds: Where’s the … Continue reading
Matt Welch: A Life Against the Emergency State
Matthew Lee Welch is born July 31, 1968 in Bellflower, California, and grows up in Long Beach. He attends UC Santa Barbara and leaves without a degree. Through his mother, Mary Bobbitt Townsend, he descends from Rear Admiral Hugo Osterhaus. … Continue reading
Resisting Defeat: Naturalism and Its Discontents in Contemporary Orthodox Thought
We need a 2026 version of David N. Myers’ 2003 book, Resisting History: Historicism and Its Discontents in German-Jewish Thought. First, the specific analytical framework Myers deployed in Resisting History. His four thinkers (Cohen, Rosenzweig, Strauss, Breuer) were not rejecting … Continue reading
Rony Guldmann: Philosopher at the Gates
Rony Hugo Guldmann trains as a Continental philosopher. He earns a law degree at Stanford and holds a research fellowship there. He leaves academic life, joins a consumer-protection firm in New York, and keeps publishing philosophical work from outside the … Continue reading
Brian Leiter: The Naturalist’s Program
Brian Leiter was born in 1963 in Manhattan, into a Jewish family. He went to Princeton and graduated with a philosophy degree in 1984. He then went to Michigan, where he took a law degree in 1987 and finished a … Continue reading