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Author Archives: Luke Ford
John Rawls: Domesticating Contingency
John Rawls was born in Baltimore on February 21, 1921, the second of five sons in a prosperous professional family. His father practiced tax law and argued constitutional cases. His mother worked for women’s suffrage and later the League of … Continue reading
Rachel Dolezal vs. Bruce Jenner
Steve Sailer wins most of the analytical exchanges here. The central move Sailer makes is pressing on the contradiction that race is described as a social construct when discussing biology but as ancestral inheritance when discussing membership. Gemini never resolves … Continue reading
Jeff Pearlman: Chronicler of the Messy Truth Behind American Sports Myths
Jeff Pearlman is an American sportswriter and biographer born in 1972 in Mahopac, New York. He writes books that chronicle the gap between the public image of sports icons and the messier private reality. Over two decades he has produced … Continue reading
Ronald Dworkin and the Argument from Integrity
Ronald Dworkin was born in Worcester, Massachusetts, on December 11, 1931, into a Jewish family, and grew up in Providence, Rhode Island. He majored in philosophy at Harvard, graduated summa cum laude in 1953, and took his Rhodes to Magdalen … Continue reading
The Kelsen Exclusion and the Jurisdictional Claim Balkin Now Defends
At an academic conference about a decade ago, legal philosopher Duncan Kennedy, who was retiring, said that at Harvard Law, they teach the students that judges and lawyers are policy makers, and that all that rule of law stuff was … Continue reading
The First Century Jesus Movement As Extremist Threat
A Roman counter-extremism analyst reviewing the Jesus movement around 50-60 AD might flag nearly every indicator on a contemporary threat assessment. Start with the leader profile. Charismatic preacher, Galilean rural background, drew large crowds, made apocalyptic claims about a coming … Continue reading
Chris Kavanagh: Ritual, Fusion, and the Anthropology of the Guru Age
Chris Kavanagh grows up in Northern Ireland. The “Norn Irish” tag he wears online is not affectation. Ulster teaches what ritual, flags, marches, and sectarian identity do to ordinary people. Men there learn by twelve what group boundaries feel like. … Continue reading
The Measurer of Gurus: An Intellectual Biography of Matthew Browne
Matthew Browne holds a professorship in psychology at Central Queensland University. The location tells you something. He is not at Melbourne or Sydney. He is at a campus most Australians could not find on a map, working on a stigmatized … Continue reading
The Heretic Inside the Temple: Sanford Levinson and the Limits of Constitutional Faith
Sanford Levinson was born June 17, 1941, in Hendersonville, North Carolina, into a Jewish family in the American South. He grows up watching a region that wraps its political order in scriptural authority, and he later turns that same eye … Continue reading
Jack M. Balkin: Custodian of a Fraying Constitution
Jack M. Balkin was born August 13, 1956, in Kansas City, Missouri. He holds the Knight Professorship of Constitutional Law and the First Amendment at Yale Law School, where he has taught since 1994. He is on leave for spring … Continue reading