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- 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
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- 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
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- ‘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
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Author Archives: Luke Ford
The Heel: A Biography of Skip Bayless
Skip Bayless came into the world as John Edward Bayless II on December 4, 1951, in Oklahoma City. His father John Sr. called him Skip from the first days, borrowing a nickname he had once used for the boy’s mother, … Continue reading
The Laundered Theorist: An Intellectual Biography of Paul Gottfried
Paul Edward Gottfried, born November 21, 1941, has spent six decades writing the history of American conservatism from inside and against it. He taught humanities at Elizabethtown College for twenty-five years, edits Chronicles: A Magazine of American Culture, and has … Continue reading
The Cost of a Laundered Canon
A culture keeps its intellectual accounts in two ways. It names its teachers and tracks their predictions, or it appropriates the teaching and erases the teacher. The first method allows error correction. The second produces a peculiar kind of confidence … Continue reading
The Noticer’s Page: A Literary Analysis of Steve Sailer’s Posting Style
A Sailer blog post has a shape. Read one and you have read the structural template of thousands. The shape repeats across decades, across platforms, across the migration from iSteve at the Unz Review to Substack at stevesailer.net. The repetition … Continue reading
What Then Shall We Do: The Work Doris Left
John M. Doris argues two claims that sit at the root of moral psychology. Character traits as Aristotle and his descendants describe them do not exist, or exist in forms too weak to carry the weight the tradition places on … Continue reading
The Synthesis That Never Happened
When I was 21, I decided that I would devote my life to reconciling micro and macro-economic theory. Then I came down with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, spent six years in bed, and became a blogger instead. Economics’ loss is Judaism’s … Continue reading
The Vance Correction
I only read negative stories about JD Vance. So I asked myself – does Vance have any fans in the MSM? I couldn’t think of any. Perhaps the question worth asking is not whether mainstream outlets dislike JD Vance. That … Continue reading
Peter Baker – The Custodian of Continuity
Peter Eleftherios Baker, born July 2, 1967, in Fairfax, Virginia, grew up in the Washington suburbs during the long aftermath of Watergate. His father, Eleftherios Peter Baker, practiced tax law as the son of poor Greek immigrants whose original surname, … Continue reading
Ten Convenient Beliefs for Pope Leo XIV
Stephen Turner’s framework of good bad theories describes beliefs that persist not because they map reality accurately but because they coordinate action, stabilize coalitions, and legitimate power. They are good at sustaining group identity, reducing internal friction, and justifying continued … Continue reading
The Pope Versus the President: An Alliance Theory Reading of the Leo XIV–Trump Feud
The clash between Pope Leo XIV and Donald Trump looks, on the surface, like a moral disagreement about war. A pope condemns a threat to destroy Iranian civilization. A nationalist president defends it as necessary deterrence. Commentators slot the conflict … Continue reading