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Author Archives: Luke Ford
Steve Sailer: ‘A former SPLC enforcer writes a book about how he inflicted Brimelow Derangement Syndrome upon his own fragile mental health.’
With some effort, I can feel empathy for all the characters in this story. I know what it is like to find some things (such as trans identity and gay marriage) upsetting that others valorize. If VDARE moves to your … Continue reading
Judy Blume: A Life (2026)
Here are some highlights from Mark Oppenheimer’s new book: * Library Journal may have been sour on Judy, but its readers, the country’s librarians, were not. When parents and activists began to challenge Judy’s books and ask that they be … Continue reading
Rony Guldmann on Hero Systems & Their Competing Claims of Oppression (4-12-26)
01:00 Is the “heritage Americans” construct racist?04:00 Star Chamber of Stanford, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=18147911:00 Conservative Claims of Cultural Oppression, https://ronyguldmann.com/conservative-claims-cultural-oppression/15:00 Rony Guldmann, https://ronyguldmann.com18:00 My writings on Rony Guldmann: https://lukeford.net/blog/?cat=4293322:00 Conservative Claims of Cultural Oppression: On the Nature and Origins of ‘Conservaphobia’, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=181477
The Man Who Named the Pain: Mike Benz and the Censorship Complex
Mike Benz, born around 1984, runs the Foundation for Freedom Online from a position few of his contemporaries can claim. He speaks the bureaucratic dialect of the State Department, the legal vocabulary of the corporate bar, and the rapid idiom … Continue reading
The Empathy Myth: Literature, Status, and the American English Department
Teaching literature gets sold as expanding our empathy. But empathy did not evolve to reach strangers. It evolved to manage coalitions. When English professors claim their discipline makes students more ethical, they are making a resource argument dressed as a … Continue reading
Omar Sultan Haque – Physician, Psychiatrist, Philosopher
Omar Sultan Haque holds an Sc.B. in neuroscience and A.B. in religious studies from Brown University, an M.T.S. from Harvard Divinity School, an S.T.M. from Yale, and an M.D. from Harvard Medical School. He completed his Ph.D. in cognition and … Continue reading
The Genetic Component Of The Tacit
Stephen Turner’s critique of tacit knowledge is primarily epistemological and sociological. He is concerned with the impossibility of collective transmission, with the ideological functions of tacit knowledge claims, and with the way appeals to shared background naturalize what are contested … Continue reading
FT: The market failure beneath the manosphere
The FT says: “Confronting the misogyny and get-rich-quick schemes of influencers means talking openly to young men about success.” The writer Simon van Teutem resists the lazy framing that treats manosphere appeal as pure ideology, and his market-failure argument cuts … Continue reading
The Star Chamber of Stanford
David Pinsof’s misunderstanding essay applies to Rony Guldmann’s memoir, and in ways that cut against Guldmann more sharply than they do against his faculty antagonists. Start with Stanford Law professor Joe Bankman’s early response to the draft of Conservative Claims … Continue reading
Conservative Claims of Cultural Oppression: On the Nature and Origins of ‘Conservaphobia’
In his book in progress, author Rony Guldmann’s central argument is that conservative claims of cultural oppression are philosophically serious and that the liberal academy treats conservative grievances as symptoms of psychological deficit rather than as positions worth engaging. Conservatives, … Continue reading