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Author Archives: Luke Ford
The Definitive Book on the Institutional Cover-up of Rabbinic Sex Abuse in America
The existing literature gives you fragments. Michael Lesher’s Sexual Abuse, Shonda, and Concealment in Orthodox Jewish Communities (2014) covers the halakhic apparatus of silence from a lawyer-insider angle. Amy Neustein’s edited collection Tempest in the Temple (2009) gathers case studies … Continue reading
The Definitive Book on Jewish Affinity Fraud in Los Angeles
My lived experience of Jewish life since 1993 is that I have witnessed about five times as much kindness and greatness as fraud. The fraud cases that I envision a potential book examines are the visible failures of a system … Continue reading
The Definitive Book on American Covert Ops
How about treating American intelligence services in a register that takes covert operations seriously rather than treating them as adventure copy? Carl Bernstein (b. 1944) wrote one long piece on the CIA’s relationship with the American press in Rolling Stone … Continue reading
The Definitive Book on Jewish Affinity Fraud in America
An honest treatment of Jewish affinity fraud has to set out the success before the failure registers in its proper proportion. The affinity network the chapters map is the same network that has made American Jewish communal life the most … Continue reading
The Age of Monkeypox
You’d think that the persistence of gay orgies during the 2022 monkeypox outbreak would make a fascinating subject for honest reporting. It got almost none. Monkeypox broke out in May 2022. The disease spread primarily through sexual contact among men … Continue reading
The Credentialed Dissident: Jean-François Gariépy and the YouTube Era
Jean‑François Gariépy emerged from the intersection of academic neuroscience, internet subcultures, and dissident political media during the second half of the 2010s. Trained in biology and neuroscience in Québec, he completed doctoral work on respiratory neural networks at the Université … Continue reading
The Hemingway Style
Hemingway’s (1899-1961) prose presents a paradox. The surface reads as transparent and artless, yet the underlying construction demands more discipline than most ornate prose requires. His sentences earn their authority through what they refuse to do. He omits the abstract … Continue reading
Neil Strauss and the Literature of Self-Construction
Neil Darrow Strauss (b. 1969) is an American journalist, memoirist, and ghostwriter whose career traces the migration of literary nonfiction from institutional gatekeeping toward personality-driven narrative production. Born in Chicago and educated at Vassar College, he entered the music press … Continue reading
Vanessa Grigoriadis: Chronicler of Elite American Culture in Transition
Vanessa Grigoriadis (b. 1973) belongs to the last cohort of American long-form magazine journalists trained inside the prestige print system before its collapse. She was born in New York City to Greek-American parents. Her father taught computer science at Rutgers. … Continue reading
Daphne Merkin and the Ethnography of Elite Neurotic Culture
Daphne Merkin (b. 1954) is an American essayist, memoirist, novelist, and cultural critic whose career occupies the borderlands between confessional writing, intellectual journalism, psychoanalytic reflection, and observation of upper-middle-class Jewish social life. She emerged in the late twentieth-century New York … Continue reading