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).

Don’t Mess With Texas – Governor Signs Law To Arrest Illegals (12-18-23)

01:00 NYT: Abbott Signs Law Allowing Texas to Arrest Migrants, Setting Up Federal Showdown, https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/18/us/abbott-texas-border-law-arrests.html11:00 Uvalde response: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBofi_etkUo25:00 Elliott Blatt joins to talk about sports bars35:00 Elliott Blatt banned from Nextdoor

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Populism vs Neoconservatism (12-17-23)

01:00 Populism is popular but ineffective, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=15365410:00 What is populism? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Populism14:30 The rise of modern populism – Takis S. Pappas, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMNwUh0X5eI33:40 How to understand power – Eric Liu, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_Eutci7ack53:00 Elliott Blatt goes to a sports bar 55:00 Colin Liddell joins … Continue reading

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Populism, Neoconservatism & Lessons in the Application of Power

I’m a simple man who likes simple things like truth. Here is one truth as I see it — populism is usually popular but rarely gets anything done, while neoconservatism is unpopular but gets much accomplished (such as the disastrous … Continue reading

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Their Friendship Dissolved Over Monetarism

“Betrayal” is the hyperbolic term we often use when we find out that other people have different priorities from what we expected. The best book I’ve read on this topic is Betrayals: The Unpredictability of Human Relations by Gabriella Turnaturi: … Continue reading

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Decoding The Greatest Motivational Speakers (12-12-23)

01:00 New Yorker: How to Build a Better Motivational Speaker: The upstart motivator Jesse Itzler wants to reform his profession—while also rising to the top, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=15355853:00 Criticizing Israel on American campuses, https://www.unz.com/isteve/president-of-penn-shoved-out/55: Putting the con in conservative: https://rumble.com/v2nqqwe-putting-the-con-in-conservative-5-14-23.html56:00 Conservative cons, … Continue reading

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