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- Who Rules: The Political Thought of Angelo Codevilla
- The Other Constitution: John Marini on Bureaucracy and the American Founding
- Nancy MacLean and the History of Concentrated Power
- Freedom and Authority: The Work of Christoph Bezemek
- The Not Boring Hero System
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- The Friend with the Microphone
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- Xavier Becerra’s Hero System
- The Refusal to Disappear
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* 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)
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* Terror in Sydney: Analyzing the “Chanukah by the Sea” Massacre (12-14-25)
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* 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)
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Author Archives: Luke Ford
The Efrem Goldberg Voice
Efrem Goldberg speaks and writes as a pulpit man built for a large, mixed Modern Orthodox congregation. He sounds warm. He sounds reasonable. He works to recruit you rather than corner you. Start with his diction. He mixes English and … Continue reading
The Simon Jacobson Voice
Simon Jacobson (b. 1956) built his public voice on a single move. He speaks as a translator. For more than a decade he led the team that memorized and transcribed the talks of his teacher, Menachem Mendel Schneerson (1902–1994), and … Continue reading
The Yosef Kanefsky Voice
Yosef Kanefsky speaks in the register of a pastor who has decided that conscience is the highest halachic value, and he has built a public voice around that decision. He runs B’nai David-Judea in Pico-Robertson, and his writing reaches well … Continue reading
The Manis Friedman Voice
Manis Friedman (b. 1946) speaks slow. That sets him apart before he says anything. Most preachers fill the air. He drains it. He lets a sentence land, then waits, and the pause does work that a louder man tries to … Continue reading
The Yosef Yitzchak Jacobson Voice
Jacobson (b. 1972) learned to speak by reproducing another man’s speech. From age fifteen he served as a choizer, one of the young men who sat through the Rebbe’s farbrengens and then rebuilt the talks from memory, word for word, … Continue reading
The Yitzchok Adlerstein Voice
Yitzchok Adlerstein (b. 1950) writes in a voice that sounds relaxed but works hard. He came up summa cum laude from Queens College and took ordination in the yeshiva world, and both halves show in his prose. He can publish … Continue reading
The Marc Shapiro Voice
Marc B. Shapiro (b. 1962) writes as a collector of anomalies. He finds the passage a later editor removed, the responsum that says what the tradition now denies it said, the photograph cropped to hide a clean-shaven face. Then he … Continue reading
The David Myers Voice
David N. Myers (b. 1960) writes and speaks in the register of the liberal Jewish public moralist. The voice belongs to a man who has spent forty years inside the seminar room and the synagogue board meeting, and it carries … Continue reading
The Berel Wein Voice
Rabbi Berel Wein (1934-2025) spoke like a Chicago lawyer who wandered into the rabbinate and never lost the courtroom in his ear. His voice carried a dry baritone, gravelly and flat, with an American cadence rather than the yeshivish singsong. … Continue reading
The Akiva Tatz Voice
Akiva Tatz, the South African born physician and Orthodox lecturer, speaks like a doctor reading a diagnosis. He moves slowly. He poses a question, lets it sit in silence, then answers it in stages. The pause does work for him. … Continue reading