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Author Archives: Luke Ford
LA is Weak as a Post-18 Orthodox Alliance Hub
Most graduates of Orthodox day schools in Los Angeles leave town. Why? Orthodox high school graduates leave LA because LA is weak as a post-18 alliance hub, while Israel and NYC are strong ones. Young adults migrate toward places that … Continue reading
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Why Young Single Orthodox Jewish Women Don’t Go To Shul
In most Orthodox communities, single young women attend shul far less regularly than married women, and far less than men. This is not a personal failing or apathy. It is a structural outcome of how Orthodox synagogue life is organized. … Continue reading
How Do We Build Better Americans?
Aaron Renn writes: “Better American versions of these are not just going to appear. They have to be built. We will need solutions that span all of the different domains I highlighted in the two charts above, and probably more … Continue reading
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City Journal: The Freak World of Nicholas J. Fuentes
I don’t think this article damages Nick one bit (and my politics are 100x closer to Rufo’s than to Fuentes’s). Chris Rufo and company write: Fuentes is best understood as an actor in what postmodern theorist Jean Baudrillard called “hyperreality.” … Continue reading
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The Silence Around Jeffrey Epstein Was Completely Normal
The New York Times reports: The Price of Admission to Epstein’s World: Silence There were plenty of signs that something wasn’t right with Jeffrey Epstein. Why didn’t anyone say something? What a stupid question. This is how the world works, … Continue reading
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NYT: Obama Took On Recession, Health Care and Iraq. What He Didn’t See Coming Was Trump.
Peter Baker writes: “A new set of oral history interviews documents how Barack Obama and his advisers missed the shifting mood of the country that would ultimately replace him with a successor they considered a “con man,” “clown” and “laughingstock.”” … Continue reading
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A Small Group Of People Decide What Knowledge Is
So how do you join that conversation? For example, if I were to turn this blog post into something legal elites read, what phrases, ideas and individuals do I need to cite? I accept that what counts as knowledge is … Continue reading
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If I want to learn more about David Pinsof’s Alliance Theory, what books do you recommend?
ChatGPT says: Because Alliance Theory is new and wrapped up in political psychology research, the best way to get up to speed is to pair that article with foundational books that inform or contrast with it. Here are key texts … Continue reading
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Decoding Rabbi Aaron Rakeffet-Rothkoff
ChatGPT says: Through Alliance Theory, Rabbi Aaron Rakeffet-Rothkoff is best understood as a memory-enforced legitimacy guardian whose life’s work has been to make Orthodox authority feel earned, continuous, and morally weighty rather than abstract or bureaucratic. He is not a … Continue reading
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Decoding Kyle Sandilands (Australia’s #1 Radio Host)
ChatGPT says: Through Alliance Theory, Kyle Sandilands is best understood as a culture-shock amplifier whose role inside the media ecosystem is to provoke, destabilize, and test the moral boundaries of mainstream public discourse rather than to build stable consensus or … Continue reading
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