- https://PayPal.Me/lukeisback
"Luke Ford reports all of the 'juicy' quotes, and has been doing it for years." (Marc B. Shapiro)
"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
Avi Yemini: A Rebel From The Start: Setting The Record Straight
Avi writes in his 2023 memoir: * I laugh when critics accuse me of being an attention seeker. I’m the tenth of 17 children born to my mother within 20 years. I’ve been seeking attention my entire life just to … Continue reading
Posted in Australia, Avi Yemini
Comments Off on Avi Yemini: A Rebel From The Start: Setting The Record Straight
Australian Commentator Avi Yemini And His Dad Zephaniah Waks
Avi Yemini hosted his father, Zephaniah Waks, on the Opposition Podcast to discuss their family history, Zephaniah’s exit from ultra-Orthodox Judaism, and their current relationship. The conversation provides several details that supplement your notes on Alliance Theory and the Waks … Continue reading
Posted in Abuse, Australia, Avi Yemini
Comments Off on Australian Commentator Avi Yemini And His Dad Zephaniah Waks
Code of Silence Documentary About Sexual Abuse Inside Orthodox Judaism (2014)
YT: “CODE OF SILENCE, a one-hour COMPASS special, follows the parallel journeys of a fervently Orthodox Jewish father and his now-secular son, after the son breaks the code of silence in Melbourne’s Orthodox community and goes public with his story … Continue reading
How do Australia’s various social classes view each other?
Here is the Alliance Theory map for Australia’s social classes. Same mechanics as the US, different moral grammar. Australia runs on egalitarian signaling layered over real hierarchy. Upper class and old elites Currency is quiet capital. Property, private schools, boards, … Continue reading
Posted in Australia
Comments Off on How do Australia’s various social classes view each other?
Decoding Australia’s SBS Network
ChatGPT says: Through Alliance Theory, SBS is best understood as a minority-legitimation broadcaster whose core function is to integrate culturally diverse populations into the Australian state without requiring cultural flattening or emotional assimilation. SBS does not coordinate the dominant alliance. … Continue reading
Posted in Australia
Comments Off on Decoding Australia’s SBS Network
Decoding Channel 10 Australia
ChatGPT says: Through Alliance Theory, Channel 10 is best understood as a youth-facing affect coordinator whose job is to keep emerging audiences loosely attached to mainstream legitimacy while draining political and moral intensity out of that attachment. Channel 10 does … Continue reading
Posted in Australia
Comments Off on Decoding Channel 10 Australia
Decoding Channel 7 Australia
ChatGPT says: Through Alliance Theory, Australia’s Channel 7 is best understood as a status-affirming broadcaster whose primary function is to reinforce mainstream authority, aspiration, and social order while framing disruption as aberration rather than transformation. Channel 7’s alliance role differs … Continue reading
Posted in Australia
Comments Off on Decoding Channel 7 Australia
Decoding Channel 9 Australia
ChatGPT says: Through Alliance Theory, Australia’s Channel 9 is best understood as a mass-coordination broadcaster whose core function is to normalize the values and emotional rhythms of the country’s dominant middle alliance while presenting that dominance as apolitical common sense. … Continue reading
Posted in Australia
Comments Off on Decoding Channel 9 Australia
Decoding The Death of Azaria Chamberlain
ChatGPT says: Through David Pinsof’s Alliance Theory, the death of Azaria Chamberlain becomes a case study in how moral coalitions override evidence, how outsiders are punished to restore social order, and how innocence can be crushed when a family sits … Continue reading
Decoding Australia’s Number One Radio Show – The Kyle & Jackie O Show
ChatGPT says: The Kyle & Jackie O Show is best decoded, through Alliance Theory, as a mass affect regulator whose primary function is to dissolve political and moral alignment pressure rather than create it. Start with Pinsof’s premise. Alliances are … Continue reading
Posted in Australia
Comments Off on Decoding Australia’s Number One Radio Show – The Kyle & Jackie O Show