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"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:
- Gloves Off by Lowell Cohn
- NYT: The Secret Reason Bosses Want Everyone Back in the Office, Every Day of the Week
- Dennis Prager Prefers Clarity to Agreement
- Pinsof on Democracy
- 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
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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)
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Category Archives: Personal
My Most Popular Pages
According to Google Analytics: Pageviews 1,033,382 % of Site Total: 100.00% Unique Pageviews The number of visits during which one or more of these pages was viewed. Unique Pageviews 859,131 % of Site Total: 100.00% Avg. Time on Page The … Continue reading
I Want A More Tranquil Life
The other day, I was dealing with angry people. And in the middle of it, I thought, “I’d rather be teaching the Alexander Technique than dealing with this tsures.” I just don’t like all the anger and venom that came … Continue reading
Bed Shouldn’t Be A Battleground
I walked eight miles today! My car was in the shop. I walked to West Hollywood, caught a ride to the doctor with a friend. I saw a sleep specialist this morning. I will do an overnight sleep study at … Continue reading
The Force Field
He walked past Bnai David Thursday afternoon and saw a trash can with the sign, “Sponsored by Rabbi Yosef Kanefsky.” He stopped and stared. “What the hell?” he thought. “A trash can sponsored by a rabbi? Where’s the kavod of … Continue reading
Luke Ford and Julian Assange
Yehuda emails: 1. Both are Australian 2. Both like to expose the inner workings of secretive institutions. 3. Both have had run ins with authority figures. 4. Both are fascinated with the Jewish people and Israel. I would say that … Continue reading
Do I Feel Bad For People Whose Homes Are Flooded Out?
Not really. If you choose to live by a hillside, I don’t feel bad that when it rains heavily, your home gets filled with mud. If you choose to live in New Orleans and to not evacuate when there’s a … Continue reading
‘But You Admire This Man?’
Here’s a painful memory. It was the Spring of 1998. I was going out with this Jewish woman I met at synagogue. I brought her over to the hovel for the first time and like a chivalrous gentleman, I showed … Continue reading
Panic Attacks
I had a girlfriend who would get a panic attack every time she walked into a courtroom. “You don’t have to,” I told her one evening. “You don’t have to get panic attacks any more. You can learn to free … Continue reading
I Can’t Do Celibate Pose!
I began yoga in January 2009. I went all-out. And within two months, I’d done a lot of damage to myself, some of it permanent and irreparable. Once you stretch ligaments, they don’t unstretch. Some of the damage was repaired … Continue reading