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"Luke Ford reports all of the 'juicy' quotes, and has been doing it for years." (Marc B. Shapiro)
"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)"This generation's Hillel." (Nathan Cofnas)
Author Archives: Luke Ford
Larry McMurtry’s Struggle Against Anti-Gentile Prejudice
Here’s an excerpt from the new biography, Larry McMurtry: A Life by Tracy Daugherty: She [McMurtry’s literary agent Dorothea Oppenheimer] gave [Editor Michael Korda] an earful about how East Coast reviewers just didn’t get McMurtry though to be fair he … Continue reading
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Irony and Outrage: The Polarized Landscape of Rage, Fear, and Laughter in the United States
Political scientist Dannagal Goldthwaite Young writes in this 2019 book: * In their 2014 book The Outrage Industry, Jeffrey Berry and Sarah Sobieraj chronicle the growth of a new genre of political programming through the 2000s; programming that places a … Continue reading
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The Women of the Far Right: Social Media Influencers and Online Radicalization
Here are some highlights from this 2023 book by sociologist Eviane Leidig: * In May 2019, then twenty-three-year-old Canadian Lauren Southern posted on her website, laurensouthern.net, a farewell message titled “A New Chapter.” In it, Lauren 1 stated that over … Continue reading
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My Favorite Songs
That’s the beginning number of my Youtube music playlist.
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My Favorite Movies
* A Man For All Seasons (1966) * Chariots of Fire (1981) * Cinema Paradiso (1988) * A Perfect World (1993) * Legends of the Fall (1994) * Big Fish (2003)
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