- https://PayPal.Me/lukeisback
"Luke Ford reports all of the 'juicy' quotes, and has been doing it for years." (Marc B. Shapiro)
"This guy knows all the gossip, the ins and outs, the lashon hara of the Orthodox world. He’s an [expert] in... all the inner workings of the Orthodox world." (Rabbi Aaron Rakeffet-Rothkoff) LATEST POSTS:
- Dennis Prager v Cedars-Sinai Lawsuit
- Dennis Prager Through Randall Collins: Interaction Ritual Chains
- What is a ‘Received Idea’?
- Jordan Bardella: The Manufacture of Normality
- Everyone Became Television: Bourdieu’s Warning and the 2026 Iran War
- Marine Le Pen
- The Coalition-Proximity Rule
- Nigel Farage
- Bernard Haykel: A Life Between the Text and the Gun
- Walker Connor (1926-2017)
- Benedict Anderson and the Nation as Imagination
- Anthony D. Smith: The Student Who Kept the Question and Rejected the Answer
- Ernest Gellner
- Eric Kaufmann: The Man Who Made the Majority Visible
- Dominic Cummings: A Biography
- Steve Lopez: The Last City Columnist
- California Historian Kevin Starr
- Stephen Kotkin: A Life in Power
- William T. Vollmann: An American Life in Excess
- Rod Dreher: A Life in Exile
BEST POSTS:
- * The Enlightenment Wasn’t Enlightened (6-23-26)
* Mr. Burge Draws The Line (6-23-26)
* 'Improving on Democracy' (6-17-26)
* People Leak To People Who Are Fun (6-11-26)
* Why Does Australia Produce So Many Great Journalists? (6-11-26)
* Steve Wynn and the Press: Power, Litigation, and the Contest Over Las Vegas (6-3-26)
* Sheldon Adelson and the Journalists (6-3-26)
* The Vigilant Animal: Thinkers Who Reject the Myth of Human Gullibility (6-2-26)
* The Cost of Refusing the Misunderstanding Myth (6-2-26)
* Show Me How It Travels (6-2-26)
* The Norm Explainers (6-2-26)
* Centering Marginalized Voices (6-1-26)
* What would it look like if the Washington Post put its reader first? (6-1-26)
* What would it look like if the Financial Times put its reader first? (6-1-26)
* What It Would Mean for the Los Angeles Times to Put the Reader First? (6-1-26)
* What It Would Mean for The New York Times to Put the Reader First? (6-1-26)
* Why Wembanyama Lives on the Perimeter (5-31-26)
* The Emotional Palettes Of San Diego, Los Angeles, San Francisco & Sacramento (5-27-26)
* The Administrative Capital: Sacramento Legal Culture (5-27-26)
* San Diego - The Quiet Republic (5-27-26)
* The Quiet Bar: San Diego Legal Culture (5-27-26)
* SF v LA Legal Culture (5-27-26)
* Why Talent Travels Poorly Between San Francisco and Los Angeles (5-27-26)
* San Francisco and Los Angeles as Rival Models of Urban Access (5-27-26)
* Social Cliques in New York, 2026 (5-25-26)
* Social Cliques in San Francisco, 2026 (5-25-26)
* The Rival Courts of Washington (5-25-26)
* The City of Private Rooms (5-25-26)
Category Archives: Genocide
Author Philip Gourevitch
In May 1995 a thirty-three-year-old American freelancer steps through a massacre site in Rwanda and his foot comes down on a skull. The dead lie so thick on the ground that he cannot avoid them. The killing ended almost a … Continue reading
Posted in Genocide, Journalism, Literature
Comments Off on Author Philip Gourevitch
The Competitive Construction of Jewish Suffering: Cultural Trauma as a Market in Moral Meaning
Jeffrey Alexander argues that cultural trauma is never the automatic social consequence of terrible events. It is a competitive achievement. Carrier groups identify an injury, narrative entrepreneurs code it as evil, weight its significance against other claims on collective attention, … Continue reading
The Suffering Olympics: Hierarchy, Gatekeeping, and the Competitive Construction of Victimhood
Jeffrey Alexander’s theory of cultural trauma predicts that the successful construction of an event as the paradigmatic moral catastrophe of an era does not simply establish that event’s moral authority. It reorganizes the entire field of moral claim-making around the … Continue reading
The Performance of Suffering: Wiesel, Levi, and the Market for Holocaust Testimony
Sociologist Jeffrey Alexander argues in “Toward a Theory of Cultural Trauma” that trauma is not the automatic social consequence of terrible events. It is a cultural achievement. Events become collective traumas when carrier groups successfully construct a narrative that defines … Continue reading
The Jurisdictional Wars: Alliance Theory and the Battle for Power in Genocide Studies
Genocide Studies does not present itself as a field competing for power. It presents itself as a moral and scholarly enterprise devoted to understanding mass violence and preventing its recurrence. This is often sincere. It is also structured competition. As … Continue reading
Posted in Genocide
Comments Off on The Jurisdictional Wars: Alliance Theory and the Battle for Power in Genocide Studies
The Power Of Rhetoric Vs The Power Of Situation
RR posts: “Let us accept, as you have compellingly argued , that the Nazis had no significant transformative influence upon anyone not already inclined toward their message. And so the success of Nazi propaganda in enabling their genocide lied in … Continue reading
Posted in Genocide
Comments Off on The Power Of Rhetoric Vs The Power Of Situation
Schindler’s Fate: Genocide, Ethnic Cleansing, and Population Transfers
Academic Robert M. Hayden writes in 1996: In 1934, as the guarantees of the minority treaties of the Versailles settlement proved utterly illusory and as Hitler consolidated power in Germany, C. A. Macartney, the secretary to the Minorities Committee of … Continue reading
Posted in Genocide, Nationalism
Comments Off on Schindler’s Fate: Genocide, Ethnic Cleansing, and Population Transfers
Are South Africa’s White Farmers Facing Genocide?
MP3 Google suggested these stories on South African white farmers: * New York Times: Trump Cites False Claims of Widespread Attacks on White Farmers in South Africa Mr. Trump’s comment came after the Fox News host Tucker Carlson presented a … Continue reading
Posted in Africa, Genocide, South Africa
Comments Off on Are South Africa’s White Farmers Facing Genocide?
They’ll Explain When They’re Done
Don’t pay too much attention to which white nationalists (WNs) are for mass genocide and which are for expatriation and which are for incentives and separate homelands. They’ll explain when they’re done, when they’ve created their homogeneous white homelands and … Continue reading
Posted in Genocide, Jews, Nationalism
Comments Off on They’ll Explain When They’re Done
Who killed the Armenians? Muslims
Dennis Prager writes: The Journal’s editor-in-chief, Rob Eshman, recently wrote a column under the headline “Morgenthau’s Children,” about the film “The Promise,” whose subject is the Armenian genocide, and he addressed the subject of genocide in general. It was important … Continue reading