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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:
- Samuel Moyn: The Historian of Contingency
- The Hero System of George Soros
- Walter J. Ong and the Technology of the Word
- Bruno Latour: The Anthropologist of the Moderns
- Adam Tooze: A Historian of Material Power
- Quinn Slobodian: Historian of How Capitalism Is Governed
- Jamie Martin: Historian of Sovereignty, Empire, and the World Economy
- Strange bedfellows: the Alliance Theory of political belief systems
- Mordecai Finley and the Hero System of the Soul
- Looking for Lost Jews
- James Boyd White & the Legal Imagination
- Katrina Forrester: Climate Activist, Political Theorist, Intellectual Historian and Public Intellectual
- Michael Kammen and the Making of American Cultural History
- H. L. A. Hart: A Life in Law and Philosophy
- Robert Dahl, from Pluralist Optimism to the Problem of Economic Power
- If It Happened At All: The Hero System of David Wolpe
- Dark Idealism
- Refusal of Status is Status
- Learning for its Own Sake
- Try That in a Small Town
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* American Epistemics (1-19-26)
* The Most Socially Toxic Inconvenient Truths (1-18-26)
* The Luke Ford Genre (1-18-26)
* The Filkins Pivot: Legacy Prestige and the Fracturing of the Chattering Class (1-16-26)
* Decoding The Trump Doctrine (1-4-26)
* If Tatiana Schlossberg were “Tatiana Smith” (12-30-25)
* ‘I’m So Trained’: How The Credential Society Burned Down the Palisades (12-28-25)
* Status Closure and The Lost Generation (12-25-25)
* The Bondi Massacre (12-15-25)
* Sydney Jews Learn That Their Aussie Social Contract Has Become A Suicide Pact (12-15-25)
* Terror in Sydney: Analyzing the “Chanukah by the Sea” Massacre (12-14-25)
* Decoding Nick Fuentes (11-2-25)
* The Landscape of Emotional Sobriety (10-29-30)
* The Rise & Fall Of Air Supply (10-19-25)
* No Kings, No Results: How Elite Pride Replaced Real Progress (10-19-25)
* You Are An Important Soldier In A Great War (9-7-25)
* The Revolt Of The Masses (8-31-25)
* The Covenant of Ashwood (8-24-25)
* If you can’t trust central bankers, then who can you trust? (8-23-25)
* Why Is The Elite Media Singing From The Same Hymnal About The Trump-Putin Summit? (8-17-25)
* Why Do Smart News Operations Sound So Uniformly Dumb So Often? (8-16-25)
* Nobody Is Coming (8-10-25)
* When Elites Restrict Our Speech, It’s Because They Love Truth, Freedom & Democracy (8-3-25)
Category Archives: Personal
Luke Feels The Burn
Good news readers! I have enhanced my workout routine beyond my twice weekly set of 10 minutes on my Shake Weight. I have added an additional 5 minutes per day of my newest fitness find. The Free Flexor ™. I … Continue reading
God Don’t Want No Fatties!
Men Tend To Have Wide Networks Of Shallow Relationships
This is one of the reasons men tend to have more influence on the wider world — this wider network of shallow relationships. This makes for success in business, academia, culture, sports, and the like. Women tend to have smaller … Continue reading
Are My Creative Days Behind Me?
I often find myself thinking, what’s behind me and what’s ahead of me? How frightened should I be about the future? How stoked should I get about the changes I’ve made in my life? Will the next half of my … Continue reading
I’ve Been Humbled By Life
I’m humbled by how often my tendencies to bridle at authority interfere with my career success. I just don’t like being told what to do. It’s like I live my life in perpetual rebellion against anyone who reminds me of … Continue reading
Leaving The Hovel, Creating A New Life
Greg Leake emails: Hi Luke, you know, I am not unsympathetic with your situation. You have had to shave off your beard and move out of your residence all at the same time. Maybe you’re taking this with equanimity, but … Continue reading
My Sex Addiction Talk At The BINA Salon
Sept. 14, 2011: I dated Hayley Rivers for a couple of months in 2004 after she left the industry. If you look past my fake grin, you can see the horror of sex addiction in my eyes. My friend Crystal … Continue reading
My New-Found Sexual Sobriety
Helpful emails: Dear Luke, First of all, congratulations on your sexual sobriety. If you are going to make these sex addiction seminars a regular gig why not capitalize on the audience with some merchandise? No, not another boring book. I’m … Continue reading
Beards And Divine Love
Greg Leake emails: Hi Luke, I think you look pretty good without the beard, although your expression does not look particularly pleased. In fact, I would say glum would be a better characterization. I’ve had 4 or 5 beards, and … Continue reading
My New Look! Clean-Shaven For First Time Since 2008
I shaved this morning for the first time since January 2008! All for a bribe from family to finish my Alexander Technique schooling! Gavin Brown emails: “Pretty much like the old one, mate: A whingeing adult man sponging off his … Continue reading