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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:
- Morality from Within: The Philosophy of Alan Gewirth
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- Loïc Wacquant: The Boxer, the Ghetto, and the Penal State
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- Dennis Prager Health Update: June 2026
- Ken Dito: A Life in Bay Area Radio
- Lowell Cohn and the Stories he Didn’t Write
- Bob Grant and the Invention of Combat Talk
- Joe Pyne and the Ranking Nuisance of Broadcasting
- 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
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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)
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* 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)
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* The Rise & Fall Of Air Supply (10-19-25)
* No Kings, No Results: How Elite Pride Replaced Real Progress (10-19-25)
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Category Archives: Personal
Amalek Declares Luke A Jew
Bob emails: “Why is Luke Ford not profiled here? His omission here is more hurtful than his absence from hotornot.com.” Khunrum emails: “Let’s face it lads. No one takes this Luke/Jew thing seriously including Luke. He’s about as Jewish as … Continue reading
What’s The Difference Between The Jewish Sabbath And The Christian Sabbath?
Seventh-Day Adventists, Seventh-Day Baptists and Jews observe the Sabbath. What are the differences in how they observe the Sabbath? As someone who was raised a Seventh-Day Adventist but converted to Judaism in 1993, I have some ideas. The most obvious … Continue reading
Seeking a Sanctuary: Seventh-day Adventism and the American Dream
This is the best book written on the Seventh-Day Adventist church. A much darker glance at Adventism is provided in We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will be Killed With Our Families: Stories from Rwanda. It tells the … Continue reading
She Would’ve Been 80
My mom would’ve turned 80 April 22nd. She died of cancer April 24, 1970. I was not yet four. On my bookshelf I have her children’s book, “Fireside Stories”
Bearded Community
Paul emails: Hi Luke: I saw your video “Will a beard hurt my job prospects” on youtube and I just wanted to say I think you have a great beard. I am bearded myself and my dad doesn’t trust men … Continue reading
The Time Of Trouble
I’ve found that I get the most exciting stories from the people with the least going on in their lives. You talk to homeless people and they’ll tell you about government satellites beaming subliminal messages into their brains. By contrast, … Continue reading
Lonely Man Of Faith
I’m every bit as lonely in my faith as the Rav Joseph Ber Soloveitchik but at least I don’t go around developing fancy philosophical systems based on my dysfunction. I’ve done some bad things in my life. I even directed … Continue reading
Time Flies
The last image is saddest of all… Val Kilmer Mickey Rourke Brendan Fraser Russell Crowe Alec Baldwin Richard Gere Roger Moore Arnold Schwarzenegger Pierce Brosnan Clint Eastwood Rod Stewart Your Moral Leader
The Lost Meaning Of The Seventh-Day
Cinema Paradiso is my favorite movie. “Six-year-old Salvatore, whose nickname is Toto, discovers his love for films early and spends every free moment at the local moviehouse — Cinema Paradiso, where he develops a friendship with the fatherly projectionist, Alfredo, … Continue reading