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).

The Workings of the Spirit

Peter Brown writes for NYBooks.com: A new history of Christianity traces its transformation over a thousand years from an enormous diversity of beliefs and practices to Catholic uniformity… Peter Heather’s Christendom is a colossal book written by a colossus in … Continue reading

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Leaving The Fold

I just renewed my subscription to NYBooks. It is such a gorgeous publication. From NYBooks.com: All religious autobiography hinges on a drama of escape. The convert speaks from a vantage of liberation, having been freed from the shackles of sin, … Continue reading

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Decoding Joe Biden (6-5-24)

01:00 In which room and in which clothes do you watch this show?03:00 New Cold Wars: China’s Rise, Russia’s Invasion, and America’s Struggle to Defend the West,https://www.amazon.com/New-Cold-Wars-Invasion-Americas/dp/059344359413:00 Stephen Walt: Biden’s Foreign Policy Problem Is Incompetence, https://foreignpolicy.com/2024/06/04/biden-foreign-policy-gaza-ukraine-foreign-policy-incompetence/20:00 Shut Up Joe Biden, … Continue reading

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New Cold Wars: China’s Rise, Russia’s Invasion, and America’s Struggle to Defend the West

David Sanger writes: It was classic Biden: He inserted himself into a complex dispute half a world away, convinced that his long experience in diplomacy and personal touch could make a difference. Like a hostage negotiator, Biden was trying to … Continue reading

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NYRB: In the Renaissance, reading became both a passion and a pose of detachment

Catherine Nicholson writes: In A Marvelous Solitude, her new book on Renaissance humanists’ romance with reading, the Italian scholar Lina Bolzoni channels the allure, for Petrarch and those who came after him, of a life in books, its pleasures “more … Continue reading

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