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Author Archives: Luke Ford
The Alliance Theory in the Academy
The reception of Alliance Theory followed the format built into the venue and then followed the theory’s own logic, which is the fun part. Psychological Inquiry runs target articles with peer commentaries and an author reply, and “Strange Bedfellows” appeared … Continue reading
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The Borrowed Robe: How Antisemitism Dresses in Each Age’s Virtue
In the spring of 1144, the body of a twelve-year-old apprentice named William was found in Thorpe Wood outside Norwich. Nobody knows who killed him. A few years later a monk named Thomas of Monmouth arrived at the cathedral priory … Continue reading
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A Place For You
The Christian psychiatrist Paul Tournier (1898-1986) was a top five author in my home. My stepmom in particular found his work a blessing. As a child, I never made it through any of his books, but the title of one … Continue reading
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Dennis Prager v Cedars-Sinai Lawsuit
Dennis Prager (b. 1948) and his wife Susan sued (26SMCV01561) over his care following the November 12, 2024 shower fall that left him quadriplegic with a C3-C4 spinal cord injury. The case has gone through three phases so far, and … Continue reading
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Dennis Prager Through Randall Collins: Interaction Ritual Chains
Randall Collins (b. 1941) builds his sociology on a single unit: the situation. Not the individual, not the structure, but the encounter. In Interaction Ritual Chains (2004) he extends Émile Durkheim (1858-1917) and Erving Goffman (1922-1982) into a general theory. … Continue reading
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What is a ‘Received Idea’?
A “received idea” (French: idée reçue) is a commonplace, stereotypical, conventional, or clichéd opinion that circulates widely in society and is accepted and repeated without critical examination, original thought, or supporting evidence. The concept comes from Gustave Flaubert. In his … Continue reading
Jordan Bardella: The Manufacture of Normality
The Paris Court of Appeal announced it would rule at 1:30 in the afternoon on July 7, 2026. The case concerned Marine Le Pen (b. 1968) and the misuse of European Parliament funds, but the man whose future hung on … Continue reading
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Everyone Became Television: Bourdieu’s Warning and the 2026 Iran War
In 1996, Pierre Bourdieu (1930-2002) went on French television to attack French television. The two lectures, published as On Television, made a claim that sounded like media criticism but was social theory. The journalistic field, he argued, enjoyed little autonomy. … Continue reading
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Marine Le Pen
The bomb went off at four in the morning on November 2, 1976. Twenty kilograms of dynamite had been stacked in the stairwell of the apartment building at 22 Villa Poirier, in the fifteenth arrondissement of Paris. The blast tore … Continue reading
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The Coalition-Proximity Rule
Graeme Wood (b. 1979) published “What ISIS Really Wants” in The Atlantic, and built the article from Bernard Haykel’s analysis. Wood took a sentence that meant one thing in Haykel’s field and let it mean another somewhere else. Inside the … Continue reading
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