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"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) LATEST POSTS:
- Robert Putnam: The Man Who Counted What America Lost
- W. Bradford Wilcox: The Sociologist Who Tells America to Get Married
- Peter Moskos: The Cop Who Talks to People
- Julius Krein
- Ryan Burge: The Numbers Man in the Empty Church
- Emily Oster: The Economist in the Delivery Room
- The Most Ridiculous Story Ever Told
- Tanner Greer
- Economist Tyler Cowen
- Richard Reeves: A Life in Institutions
- Jake Adelstein: The Reporter Who Became His Story
- Jim Goad (1961-2026)
- Moira Greyland
- Robert Oscar Lopez: The Inconvenient Witness
- Two Ledgers: Decoding the Gurus and the Price of Talk
- The Pervert’s Progress: Costin Vlad Alamariu and the Making of Bronze Age Pervert
- Curtis Yarvin: A Life Against Democracy
- Mark Helprin: Against the Current
- Mark Brandt: The Man Who Asked Who Else Is Prejudiced
- John T. Jost: The Psychologist of Acquiescence
BEST POSTS:
- * The Enlightenment Wasn’t Enlightened (6-23-26)
* Mr. Burge Draws The Line (6-23-26)
* 'Improving on Democracy' (6-17-26)
* People Leak To People Who Are Fun (6-11-26)
* Why Does Australia Produce So Many Great Journalists? (6-11-26)
* Steve Wynn and the Press: Power, Litigation, and the Contest Over Las Vegas (6-3-26)
* Sheldon Adelson and the Journalists (6-3-26)
* The Vigilant Animal: Thinkers Who Reject the Myth of Human Gullibility (6-2-26)
* The Cost of Refusing the Misunderstanding Myth (6-2-26)
* Show Me How It Travels (6-2-26)
* The Norm Explainers (6-2-26)
* Centering Marginalized Voices (6-1-26)
* What would it look like if the Washington Post put its reader first? (6-1-26)
* What would it look like if the Financial Times put its reader first? (6-1-26)
* What It Would Mean for the Los Angeles Times to Put the Reader First? (6-1-26)
* What It Would Mean for The New York Times to Put the Reader First? (6-1-26)
* Why Wembanyama Lives on the Perimeter (5-31-26)
* The Emotional Palettes Of San Diego, Los Angeles, San Francisco & Sacramento (5-27-26)
* The Administrative Capital: Sacramento Legal Culture (5-27-26)
* San Diego - The Quiet Republic (5-27-26)
* The Quiet Bar: San Diego Legal Culture (5-27-26)
* SF v LA Legal Culture (5-27-26)
* Why Talent Travels Poorly Between San Francisco and Los Angeles (5-27-26)
* San Francisco and Los Angeles as Rival Models of Urban Access (5-27-26)
* Social Cliques in New York, 2026 (5-25-26)
* Social Cliques in San Francisco, 2026 (5-25-26)
* The Rival Courts of Washington (5-25-26)
* The City of Private Rooms (5-25-26)
Category Archives: Australia
Happiness & Homogeneity (12-26-22)
00:30 Happiness and homogeneity 31:00 Is the Bible historical truth? 39:00 Time to Close Down the Elon Musk Circus, https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2022/12/21/elon-musk-twitter-press-00074881 45:00 The cult of 12 step programs 1:02:30 The Economist: Why cricket and America are made for each other, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=146596 … Continue reading
The Rat-a-tat of the Machine Gun of Love (12-25-22)
01:00 Seek and Hide: The Tangled History of the Right to Privacy, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=146522 04:00 Frank Harris, My Life and Loves, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Life_and_Loves 07:00 Welcome to BazBall: Can England really fly?, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgcJz-uuDms 08:00 What is Bazball? https://www.sportstiger.com/news/what-is-the-new-cricketing-term-bazball 09:00 England’s cricket manager is … Continue reading
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Nepos With Attitude (12-23-22)
Virtual Pilgrim comments: Luke said he talks about what is, rather than what should be. I totally agree. Dennis Prager is fond of saying “race doesn’t matter.” It’s literally his number one point when talking about conservatism. What he is … Continue reading
Lionel Messi, Kanye West & Autistic Overlords (12-21-22)
02:00 Messi & Ye, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=146549 11:00 Israel’s dumb culture, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=146547 13:00 The Atlantic: WHY IS MARJORIE TAYLOR GREENE LIKE THIS?, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=146541 32:00 Marc B Shapiro: Rise of Reform and the Rabbinic Response, https://torahinmotion.org/tim-torah/the-rise-of-reform-and-the-rabbinic-response-part-11 55:00 A political discussion with my brother
Day 40 Down Under (12-14-22)
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Day 38 Down Under: Kanye, Nick, Alex And The Mystery Cult Religion (12-12-22)
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The Ball is Round: A Global History of Soccer
Here are some highlights from this 2008 book by David Goldblatt: * The British historian Eric Hobsbawm encapsulated this oddity when he wrote ‘The twentieth century was the American century in every way but one: sport.’ This is not exactly … Continue reading
Day 35 Down Under – I Am On The Ledge And The Tide is Coming In
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I Go To A Sydney Pub To Watch World Cup Soccer – Argentina 2-1 Australia (12-4-22)
The bloke on the right in this screenshot above is Australian actor Damian Walshe-Howling.
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