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Author Archives: Luke Ford
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
The Noticer: An Intellectual Biography of Steve Sailer
Steve Sailer was born on December 20, 1958, and adopted as an infant by a Lockheed engineer in Studio City, Los Angeles. That Southern California upbringing—suburban, data-rich, laid-back yet observant—left marks on everything he later wrote. He earned a B.A. … Continue reading
Daily Nous and the Convenient Center
Justin Weinberg is an associate professor of philosophy at the University of South Carolina, where he has been tenured long enough to describe the security it gives him as a precondition for running Daily Nous without fear of professional consequence. … Continue reading
The Unwritten Rules: What Academic Philosophy Permits and Forbids
Academic philosophy in 2026 has a published set of rules and an unpublished one. The published rules say that any argument, pursued with rigor and honesty, belongs in the philosophical conversation. The unpublished rules say something quite different. The two … Continue reading
Too Much Evidence: David Garrow and the Limits of Public Memory
David Jeffries Garrow was born on May 11, 1953, in New Bedford, Massachusetts. He graduated magna cum laude from Wesleyan University in 1975 and earned his Ph.D. in history from Duke University in 1981. An undergraduate honors thesis on Martin … Continue reading
The Gatekeeper: Jerome Wakefield and the Boundaries of Mental Disorder
Jerome C. Wakefield, born in 1946, spent his career asking a question that psychiatry preferred not to confront: what do we mean when we call something a mental disorder? His answer, the harmful dysfunction analysis (HDA), looks at first like … Continue reading
Normal Suffering: The Life and Work of Allan V. Horwitz
Allan Victor Horwitz, born August 22, 1948, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, spent more than five decades at Rutgers University asking a question that sounds simple but turns out to be hard: where does ordinary suffering end and mental illness begin? Horwitz … Continue reading
The Borrowed Functioning of Schmitt Scholars
I first saw the term “borrowed functioning” in David Schnarch’s book Passionate Marriage, and I’ve kept repeating it ever since because it is such a concise summary of a painful reality. In my case, I’ve often added a friend or … Continue reading
Serotonin and the Sovereign
Allan V. Horwitz’s (b. 1948) argument, developed in Creating Mental Illness and later in All We Have to Fear with Jerome Wakefield, is that American psychiatry systematically misclassifies normal emotional responses to difficult circumstances as pathological conditions requiring treatment. Grief … Continue reading
What Jews Can Do About Anti-Semitism
We can’t control others, but we can sometimes influence them. Anti-semitism has multiple sources, some entirely independent of Jewish behavior (scapegoating, conspiracy thinking, theological hatred), and some that track real social friction. Both can be true at once. Here is … Continue reading