Author Archives: Luke Ford

About Luke Ford

I've written five books (see Amazon.com). My work has been covered in the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, and on 60 Minutes. I teach Alexander Technique in Beverly Hills (Alexander90210.com).

Epistemic Coercion

Posted on December 4, 2024 by Luke Ford

Stephen Turner writes in Epistemology & Philosophy of Science, 2024, vol. 61, no. 3: “Words such as state, republic, society, class, as well as sovereignty, constitutional state, absolutism, dictatorship, economic planning, neutral or total state, and so on are incomprehensible … Continue reading →

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Variations in Moral Concerns across Political Ideology: Moral Foundations, Hidden Tribes, and Righteous Division

Posted on December 4, 2024 by Luke Ford

From The Oxford Handbook of Moral Psychology (2022): * Traditional Conservatives (19 per cent). This group is patriotic, religious, moralistic, and tends to lament what it perceives as the gradual erosion of a bygone and glorified American way of life. … Continue reading →

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Humor & Morality

Posted on December 4, 2024 by Luke Ford

From The Oxford Handbook of Moral Psychology (2022): * when one is engaged humorously one adopts a certain static ‘state of mind, a way of seeing and being, a special mental ‘set’ towards the world and one’s actions in it’ … Continue reading →

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The rise of the “substackademic”

Posted on December 4, 2024 by Luke Ford

Chris Bickerton writes: A successful academic entrepreneur must make themselves their primary focus. In an odd way, the academic entrepreneur is the realisation of Foucault’s call for a “cultivation of the self”. The constant curation of one’s status as a … Continue reading →

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Decoding the Trump Transition (12-3-24)

Posted on December 3, 2024 by Luke Ford

04:00 Hunter Pardon, Day 2, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sme1_gt4GJM11:00 The “If You Like Your Doctor, You Can Keep Your Doctor” Pardon and Kash Patel,https://ewerickson.substack.com/p/the-if-you-like-your-doctor-you-can17:30 Say Nothing tv show, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Say_Nothing_(TV_series)19:30 Americans used to be known for their plain speech, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0arXVZ72hvI24:20 Inflation was the result … Continue reading →

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