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).

Smart people ‘especially prone to tribalism, virtue signaling and self-deception’

Posted on December 3, 2024 by Luke Ford

Musa Al-Gharbi writes: We pay attention to, easily recall, and feel positive emotions towards things we deem interesting or useful. We dismiss, downplay, dump, and have negative emotional reactions to information that is threatening to our objectives or our self-image, … Continue reading →

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‘Trump Is De-Stereotyping Republican Foreign Policy’

Posted on December 3, 2024 by Luke Ford

Stereotypes are useful when they correlate with reality (such as different groups have different gifts). Stereotypes are not useful when you insist that different groups have inherent qualities that explain all of their actions. Regarding an out-group as inherently evil, … Continue reading →

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The Right: The Hundred-Year War for American Conservatism

Posted on December 2, 2024 by Luke Ford

Matthew Continetti writes in this 2022 book: * Isolationists paid no price for opposing intervention before Pearl Harbor. One scholar identified 115 isolationist candidates headed into the 1942 midterm elections; only 5 lost. By the last year of the war, … Continue reading →

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Decoding Trump 2.0: The Shock & Awe Version (12-1-24)

Posted on December 1, 2024 by Luke Ford

01:00 I was ahead of the game until I took that supplement to get my chi moving04:00 Trump’s Next Move: The Legal Battle That Could Change EVERYTHING, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewE5SEkFnTM07:00 Conservative Host WALKS OFF Show After CoHost Calls Her A NAZI, https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/5012229-trump-dei-merit/24:15 … Continue reading →

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Decoding World War III (11-29-24)

Posted on November 29, 2024 by Luke Ford

01:00 Europeans & Democrats resigned to working with Trump, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYdhN85KS8828:00 Death of DEI34:00 Who can influence Donald Trump? Not many people, perhaps Susie Wiles, Elon Musk, Melania Trump, Ivanka Trump in certain spheres38:00 Israel has run the table the past … Continue reading →

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