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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:
- Catharine MacKinnon
- Who Rules: The Political Thought of Angelo Codevilla
- The Other Constitution: John Marini on Bureaucracy and the American Founding
- Nancy MacLean and the History of Concentrated Power
- Freedom and Authority: The Work of Christoph Bezemek
- The Not Boring Hero System
- Zero Percent Noise
- The Patron Saint of Lost Causes: Gustavo Arellano’s Hero System
- The Hero System of Los Angeles Times Columnist Steve Lopez
- The Hero System of San Francisco Chronicle’s Ace Investigative Journalists
- The Hero System of San Francisco Columnist Emily Hoeven
- The Friend with the Microphone
- The Hero System of Zohran Mamdani
- What the Dashboard Cannot Count
- The Hero System of San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie
- Xavier Becerra’s Hero System
- The Refusal to Disappear
- The Steve Hilton Hero System
- The Refusal of Erasure
- The Save You Cannot Photograph
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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
Should I Move In With My Friend Fred?
Fred emails: I’m going to go out on a limb and speculate that Luke does not want to leave LA. Khunrum: A bit more than speculation counselor. Could you be hoping Luke doesn’t want to relocate 400 miles north? Fred: … Continue reading
I Don’t Like To Look At Fat People
Unless the person has some extraordinary qualities or proximities to me, I don’t like to look at fat people. If I see the person in shul or at work or in a writer’s group or at yoga and I get … Continue reading
How Did I Get In This Position?
All the air went out of my tires tonight when I realized… This happens to me over and over again. I have to believe I have a backstop so that I can go out and do what I want. Then … Continue reading
My Shameful Social Climbing
I’m not at all happy with where I am in life. I want to climb higher. I like the air where the elite hang out. I’ve had a few sniffs of it in my time (when I was traipsing along … Continue reading
Out Of The Shadows
I was a little embarrassed this afternoon to be checking out this book from a librarian I know in the Jewish community while frum Jews were all around me!
We Teach People How To Treat Us
I’ve been listening to this series of lectures by Igor Ledochowski on lifelong success. He makes these points about relationships: Over the long course, the life span of relationships, people will treat you the way that you’ve trained them to … Continue reading
A Painful Life Lesson From Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
Assignment: Write about a big lesson you’ve learned in life. Give the person you became an Indian name and give the lesson an Indian name. Person I became: Broken Arrow Lesson: Trying Too Hard I fear that I did something … Continue reading
I Thought You Were Religious?
Friday. 7:30 pm. I’m at a friend’s home. The wife and kids have lit the Shabbos candles. They’re religious. He’s not so much. I sit with him on the couch and watch the Laker game. First, one kid comes over … Continue reading
What If Luke Were Normal?
Greg Leake emails: Hi Luke, By this time, Luke, I think you pretty well understand that I basically like you, have been following your exploits for quite a while, I don’t hold your background against you, and you know I’ve … Continue reading
Conversations With My Therapist
Scene one. Therapist, Buffy, pretty dark Persian female, 27, talks with bearded Orthodox Jew, 42. Therapist: “Do you want to connect with me?” Luke: “Wouldn’t that be unprofessional? You won’t even tell me if you’re Jewish. How can I connect … Continue reading