Author Archives: Luke Ford

About Luke Ford

I've written five books (see Amazon.com). My work has been covered in the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, and on 60 Minutes. I teach Alexander Technique in Beverly Hills (Alexander90210.com).

What Should Jews & Catholics Learn From Protestants? (3-9-25)

Posted on March 9, 2025 by Luke Ford

01:00 I was intoxicated for a month with Trump II05:00 Polarized America, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOlMkcqXAIg07:00 Tariffs, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBoGJlpSdpY12:00 The Vanishing Neighbor: The Transformation of American Community (2014), https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=15930330:00 AI can be a great editor, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=15950849:20 From Harding to Trump: The REAL History of … Continue reading →

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AI Can Be A Great Editor

Posted on March 9, 2025 by Luke Ford

Few things are more important to me than my writing. For the first time, I ran one of my essays (Decoding Dennis Prager 5-28-23) by AI and asked for feedback. Grok’s response was great. From now on, if I care … Continue reading →

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NYT: ‘‘People Are Going Silent’: Fearing Retribution, Trump Critics Muzzle Themselves’

Posted on March 8, 2025 by Luke Ford

You can imagine my dismay when I read in the New York Times March 6, 2025: “People say they are intimidated by online attacks from the president, concerned about harm to their businesses or worried about the safety of their … Continue reading →

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Jews in the American Academy, 1900-1940: The Dynamics of Intellectual Assimilation (1991)

Posted on March 8, 2025 by Luke Ford

Susanne Klingenstein wrote: Being a transnational philologist was for [Leo] Wiener‘s mind what being a farmer was for his body: it eased tension. And it rooted the self — in the soil and in humanity… He did not belong [at … Continue reading →

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The Danger Of Online Feuds

Posted on March 7, 2025 by Luke Ford

Ezra Klein told Mark Leibovitch in 2022: And something about the back-and-forth of stepping out for Trump a bit, then getting this blowback, then stepping out a bit more and getting this blowback. And soon your friends are totally different, … Continue reading →

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