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- From Jerusalem to the Backlot: The Two Careers of Sharon Waxman
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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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* ‘I’m So Trained’: How The Credential Society Burned Down the Palisades (12-28-25)
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* No Kings, No Results: How Elite Pride Replaced Real Progress (10-19-25)
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Author Archives: Luke Ford
What Then Shall We Do: The Work Etshalom Left
Rabbi Yitzhak Etshalom occupies a position in Modern Orthodox intellectual life that the system simultaneously requires and cannot afford to promote. He teaches the evidence at full strength. He refuses premature resolution. He produces students who cannot unsee what he … Continue reading
What Then Shall We Do: The Work Shapiro Left
Marc B. Shapiro has shown, with names, editions, footnotes, and before-and-after texts, that Orthodoxy actively manages its own past in order to present itself as unchanging. The Limits of Orthodox Theology (2004) demonstrated that Maimonides’ Thirteen Principles were never the … Continue reading
What Then Shall We Do
The unfinished work of: Allan V. Horwitz Carl Schmitt Clinton Rossiter David Myers Marc B. Shapiro Paul Bloom Stephen P. Turner Yitzchok Adlerstein Yitzhak Etshalom
What Then Shall We Do: The Work Rossiter Left
Clinton Rossiter committed suicide in 1970 at age 52 having spent two decades explaining how a liberal republic survives. His core argument was temperamental before it was institutional. In Conservatism in America (1955), he described a pragmatic disposition rooted in … Continue reading
What Then Shall We Do: The Work Myers Left
Historian David N. Myers has inquired into the tension between history and memory under Yerushalmi’s long shadow, the invention of national historiography under Zionism, the recovery of suppressed diaspora-nationalist voices like Simon Rawidowicz, the institutional forces shaping Jewish studies as … Continue reading
What Then Shall We Do: The Work Schmitt Left
Gregory Cochran occupies a distinctive space in modern intellectual life as a physicist who treated human history as a branch of biology. His work represents a departure from the consensus that human evolution slowed to a crawl once culture took … Continue reading
The Anomaly Hunter: Gregory Cochran and the Limits of Scientific Caution
Gregory Cochran was born in 1953 and trained in physics and mathematics before completing a doctorate in physics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His early professional career ran through defense and aerospace research, where he worked on adaptive … Continue reading
Genetics and Public Health: Toward an Efficient Division of Labor
The question of how genetics should figure in public health resource allocation has been muddied by two competing distortions. Genomic enthusiasts oversell the clinical actionability of common-disease genetic markers and underspecify what changing risk estimates actually changes about clinical advice. … Continue reading
What Then Shall We Do: The Work Horwitz Left
Allan V. Horwitz has done something rare in the sociology of medicine. He identified a structural problem with precision, named its institutional causes without exaggeration, and refused the convenient resolutions available on both sides of the debate. His central claim … Continue reading
Between Archive and Advocacy: The Career of David N. Myers – Part One
Part Two. David N. Myers, born in 1960 in Scranton, Pennsylvania, holds the Sady and Ludwig Kahn Chair in Jewish History at UCLA. His career spans more than three decades and encompasses Zionist historiography, German-Jewish thought, diaspora nationalism, and American … Continue reading