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"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:
- Samuel Moyn: The Historian of Contingency
- The Hero System of George Soros
- Walter J. Ong and the Technology of the Word
- Bruno Latour: The Anthropologist of the Moderns
- Adam Tooze: A Historian of Material Power
- Quinn Slobodian: Historian of How Capitalism Is Governed
- Jamie Martin: Historian of Sovereignty, Empire, and the World Economy
- Strange bedfellows: the Alliance Theory of political belief systems
- Mordecai Finley and the Hero System of the Soul
- Looking for Lost Jews
- James Boyd White & the Legal Imagination
- Katrina Forrester: Climate Activist, Political Theorist, Intellectual Historian and Public Intellectual
- Michael Kammen and the Making of American Cultural History
- H. L. A. Hart: A Life in Law and Philosophy
- Robert Dahl, from Pluralist Optimism to the Problem of Economic Power
- If It Happened At All: The Hero System of David Wolpe
- Dark Idealism
- Refusal of Status is Status
- Learning for its Own Sake
- Try That in a Small Town
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* American Epistemics (1-19-26)
* The Most Socially Toxic Inconvenient Truths (1-18-26)
* The Luke Ford Genre (1-18-26)
* The Filkins Pivot: Legacy Prestige and the Fracturing of the Chattering Class (1-16-26)
* Decoding The Trump Doctrine (1-4-26)
* If Tatiana Schlossberg were “Tatiana Smith” (12-30-25)
* ‘I’m So Trained’: How The Credential Society Burned Down the Palisades (12-28-25)
* Status Closure and The Lost Generation (12-25-25)
* The Bondi Massacre (12-15-25)
* Sydney Jews Learn That Their Aussie Social Contract Has Become A Suicide Pact (12-15-25)
* Terror in Sydney: Analyzing the “Chanukah by the Sea” Massacre (12-14-25)
* Decoding Nick Fuentes (11-2-25)
* The Landscape of Emotional Sobriety (10-29-30)
* The Rise & Fall Of Air Supply (10-19-25)
* No Kings, No Results: How Elite Pride Replaced Real Progress (10-19-25)
* You Are An Important Soldier In A Great War (9-7-25)
* The Revolt Of The Masses (8-31-25)
* The Covenant of Ashwood (8-24-25)
* If you can’t trust central bankers, then who can you trust? (8-23-25)
* Why Is The Elite Media Singing From The Same Hymnal About The Trump-Putin Summit? (8-17-25)
* Why Do Smart News Operations Sound So Uniformly Dumb So Often? (8-16-25)
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Author Archives: Luke Ford
NY Post: ‘Prominent NJ rabbi allegedly sent graphic pic, according to explosive sex-assault suit: ‘Not great. But works’’
The New York Post says: A prominent New Jersey rabbi sexually assaulted a single mom — and even sent her a pic of his genitals, admitting, “Not great. But works” — before launching a cyber-smear campaign against her, court papers … Continue reading
Blogging Ethics
My blogging ethics have two components: public interest and truth. If something is true and in the public interest, then it is good to go by my standard. My favorite moral test for all of my behavior is how I … Continue reading
Ten Minutes: The Hero System of Rabbi Amram Gabay
At 6:18 on a Thursday morning, October 29, 2009, a man in a hooded sweatshirt walks down the ramp into the underground garage beneath Adat Yeshurun Valley Sephardic Congregation in North Hollywood and opens fire. Two men fall, both shot … Continue reading
The Resident Alien: A Hero System Essay on Rabbi Natan Halevy
A boy of ten sits with two documents. One is an Australian passport. The other is a green card stamped Resident Alien. He reads those two words and something in him goes cold. He is not American. He does not … Continue reading
Rabbi Ari Hier and the Refusal of the Pit
Sometime in the middle 1970s a young rabbi takes his two boys to the La Brea Tar Pits on Wilshire Boulevard. They stand at the rail and look at the bronze mammoth in the lake of asphalt. The cow and … Continue reading
Rabbi Shlomo Einhorn and the Unbroken Chain
A classroom in Los Angeles. A boy in the back row, fifteen, lets his eyes go flat. A page of Talmud sits open in front of him. The page argues about damage and intent, a quarrel older than any court … Continue reading
Nitzachon: Rabbi Dovid Revah and the Victory That Keeps No Score
Alos hashachar reaches Pico Boulevard at 5:39 a.m. in the spring, the first gray before sun. The men come on foot toward 9040, past the kosher pizza place with its gate down, past the bakery, to a storefront that sold … Continue reading
Rabbi Avrohom Union’s Hero System
I imagine a scene in Cape Town. The end of Yom Kippur. Neila closes and the room holds its breath. The board had warned the new rabbi: blow the shofar after Maariv, not before, because the moment the ram’s horn … Continue reading
Rabbi Kalman Topp’s Hero System
On a Shabbat morning the men walk to Beth Jacob along Olympic Boulevard, past the dealerships shuttered for the day, past the gated lawns of eight-figure houses. They wear dark suits in the heat. The eruv runs above them, a … Continue reading
Rabb Pini Dunner’s Hero System
In 1941 Rabbi Shmuel Yitzchok Hillman (1868-1953) wrote thirty-two pages on the tractate Shabbat. Eighty-three years later Rabbi Pini Dunner (born September 25, 1970) carries those pages into the official residence of the President of Israel, except now they run … Continue reading