Category Archives: Academia

The Star Chamber of Stanford: On the Secret Trial and Invisible Persecution of a Stanford Law Fellow

Posted on July 4, 2022 by Luke Ford

Read my review here. I’ve emailed every professor referenced in this new book by lawyer and philosopher Rony Guldmann with messages along these lines: I’ve been reading a hilarious new book… I’m trying to figure out for a blog post … Continue reading →

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The Sociology of Philosophies: A Global Theory of Intellectual Change (1998)

Posted on March 21, 2022 by Luke Ford

Here are some excerpts from this book sociologist Randall Collins: * The long-term tendency of an active intellectual community is to raise the level of abstraction and reflexivity. * Individuals who participate in IRs [interaction rituals] are filled with emotional … Continue reading →

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Jews in the American Historical Profession (8-4-21)

Posted on August 4, 2021 by Luke Ford

Peter Novick writes in his 1988 book: * Selig Perlman, a professor of economics at Wisconsin, is said to have regularly summoned Jewish graduate students in history to his office and warned them, in a deep Yiddish accent, that “History … Continue reading →

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‘School athletics at the center of attention devalues intellectual students’

Posted on July 16, 2021 by Luke Ford

Sociologist Randall Collins writes: Anyone who has been to high school in the United States knows there is a prestige system, with the jocks and cheerleaders at the top, and the nerds at the bottom. The term “nerd” has no … Continue reading →

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The Study of Judaism: Authenticity, Identity, Scholarship

Posted on July 11, 2021 by Luke Ford

Here are some highlights from this 2014 book by Aaron W. Hughes: * In 2007 I published a slim and what I hoped would be a provocative volume entitled Situating Islam: The Past and Future of an Academic Discipline. This … Continue reading →

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