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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
The Problem of the Problem: Lawrence McEnerney and the Hidden Curriculum of Expert Writing
Lawrence McEnerney spent four decades teaching writing at the University of Chicago. That description undersells him. What he built, and what he taught, was a theory of how knowledge communities work. He came to Chicago in 1978 as a PhD … Continue reading
Who Decides What Counts As Scholarship In Law?
Legal scholarship in the United States runs on a peculiar arrangement no other academic field tolerates. Student editors at law reviews, mostly 2Ls and 3Ls at fewer than fifteen schools, pick what gets published in the venues that carry professional … Continue reading
The MSM Has An Anti-AI Bias
Journalism’s coalition depends on a scarce commodity: the byline, the synthesis, the access. Social media broke the distribution monopoly. AI breaks the synthesis monopoly. A reporter who explains what a study says now competes with a chatbot that explains it … Continue reading
Physiognomy
When I become interested in a thinker, one of the first things I do is to look up photos of him. It’s hard to articulate to a distinguished reader like yourself why I do this. I shudder to imagine what … Continue reading
The Biggest Subversives In The MSM
The exiles left the building: Bari Weiss, Matt Taibbi, Glenn Greenwald, Andrew Sullivan, Nellie Bowles, Jesse Singal, Paul Krugman. The figures worth watching stay inside and work the institution from within its credentialing logic. Your question is about the ones … Continue reading
The Plandemic
I don’t hold any major conspiratorial views on the Covid pandemic. In fact, I believe that our elites (including in politics, public health, finance, etc) did a better than expected job with regard to Covid, even though they made mistakes. … Continue reading
Schmitt Under Mercier and Doris
Carl Schmitt built a political theory that assigns constitutive force to sovereign decision, mythic mobilization, and the friend-enemy distinction. Schmitt recognized the prior political existence of the people as the ground any decision operates on. Constitutional Theory places pouvoir constituant … Continue reading
SMH: ‘AI won’t kill the law degree. It will redefine it’
This Sydney Morning Herald op-ed reads as marketing copy dressed as analysis. Two law school administrators defend law school. That is the structure and the limit. My four coalition questions apply. Johns and Walton draw their salaries from Sydney Law … Continue reading
What Can Seventh-day Adventist Faith Survive?
The Seventh-day Adventist church (12th largest Protestant body) in which I was raised can survive the claim that specific doctrines are wrong. It can survive revision of prophetic timelines, reinterpretation of Ellen White, renegotiation of dietary rules. It cannot survive … Continue reading
‘Legal Education and the Reproduction of Hierarchy’ (1983)
The power of the tacit in law schools hierarchies is often a matter of inheritance. Two of Stephen Turner’s high school classmates were children of law professors and they became elite law faculty. Daniel J. Meltzer and David F. Levi. … Continue reading