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- The Index of His Father
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Author Archives: Luke Ford
Edward Wadie Said (1935-2003)
Edward Said was a founder of postcolonial studies and a leading literary critic, cultural theorist, public intellectual, and political activist of the late twentieth century. His 1978 book Orientalism remade the humanities. In it he argues that Western scholarship, literature, … Continue reading
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak (born February 24, 1942) stands among the defining literary theorists and philosophers of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, a scholar whose work reshaped literary criticism, comparative literature, feminist theory, philosophy, the study of education, and … Continue reading
Fredric Jameson
Fredric Ruff Jameson (1934-2024) stands among the central figures of literary and cultural theory in the English-speaking world, and for more than half a century he labored to explain how the forms of art, architecture, film, and everyday culture register … Continue reading
Homi K. Bhabha
Homi K. Bhabha (b. November 1, 1949) is an Indian literary theorist and cultural critic whose work reshaped postcolonial studies by moving attention from fixed cultural identities toward the unstable, negotiated processes through which cultures meet and remake one another. … Continue reading
Howard Lutnick and the Two Terrors
Ernest Becker (1924-1974) wrote in The Denial of Death that a man lives pinned between two fears he can never fully face. The first is death: the body that rots, the heart that stops, the animal end that comes for … Continue reading
Full Faith and Credit
A nine-year-old in Conway, South Carolina, watches the ground go out from under his father. Homer Gaston Bessent Jr. sells real estate on the Grand Strand and then he sells nothing, and the firm fails, and the family learns what … Continue reading
The Conquest of the Creature
A man in black silk sits at the head of a long table. The hall holds thousands. They stand on tiered benches, packed shoulder to shoulder, and they watch his hands. When he lifts a piece of bread the room … Continue reading
The Index of His Father
A boy of eighteen sits at a table at Yeshivat HaNegev in 1971. Five volumes lie open in front of him, his father’s responsa, the printed verdicts of Yabia Omer. He reads a ruling, finds its heart, sets it down … Continue reading
The Hero System That Says Its Name: Moshe Hillel Hirsch and the Greatness of Man
The climb up Rechov Ben Pesachya in Bnei Brak goes steep. At the top sits the Slabodka yeshiva, and most evenings, after Maariv, an old man walks into a room where a line already waits. He turned eighty-nine this past … Continue reading
Who Keeps the People Alive: A Hero-System Essay on Rabbi Dov Lando
Rabbi Dov Lando (b. 1930) walks into the military prison at Beit Lid in the summer of 2025. He is in his mid-nineties. The military police approve the visit, which tells you something about who he is, since a prison … Continue reading