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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:
- Martin E. P. Seligman & Failure to Escape
- Carol Dweck: Row One, Seat One
- Howard Gardner and the Boy in the Photograph
- Richard Nisbett: The Man Who Measured the Insult
- Katharine Weber: A Life
- Ayalet Waldman
- Steve Stern and the Resurrection of the Pinch
- Diana Spechler – Going Off
- Leora Skolkin-Smith
- Margot Singer
- Andrea Seigel: The Sideways Career
- Laurie Gwen Shapiro
- Robert Anthony Siegel: The Education of a Criminal’s Son
- The Basement and the Birthing Room: A Life of Ilana Stanger-Ross
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- ‘Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History’
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- Belonging Without Believing: A Life of Tova Mirvis
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* American Epistemics (1-19-26)
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* 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)
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Category Archives: Personal
Why Doesn’t Anyone Hire My Mom To Write An Article About Me?
She’d be a much better choice than that tosser Brad E. Greenberg. Mom emails: Any luck with the girlfriend scene? Lovely weather here since the big storm blew over. They had severe flooding up at Noosa, but not as bad … Continue reading
I’ll Be On The New ABC TV Show ‘I-Caught’ Sept. 11
I did a long interview with ABC News Sunday night. Here’s a link to the show. They’ll show a bunch of my video clips as part of a show on "blogebrities." I’d never heard that term before. Torah! Torah! Torah!
How Desperate Am I?
Bob emails: I remember a TV program that featured women who were attracted to convicted killers. One of the Menedez boys hooked up with a former Playboy model. How desperate are you for a mate? ps No female nibbles from … Continue reading
Dating Advice From My Mom
She emails from Australia: Get a nice hair cut and a new outfit. Be nice when you ditch the old ones, they talk to each other. Don’t you find your friends in the same boat? I think young women want … Continue reading
I Strike Out On JDate – What Am I Doing Wrong?
Ladies, why am I still single? When I came to Los Angeles in 1994, I placed and answered a bunch of singles ads and met a lot of women and had some good times. In 1997, I went on jdate … Continue reading
Serial Blogger
From JewishJournal.com: I read with great interest your story on serial blogger Luke Ford ("Interview With a Serial Blogger," Aug. 3). His postings seem to be the electronic equivalent of publications like National Inquirer; its articles and Ford’s stories should … Continue reading
The End Of Something
It was 2004. For a few months now, we’d been having lunch regularly and exchanging email almost daily. "I’d love to see Rabbi X.’s face when he finds out we’re going out," I wrote her. "We’re not going out," she … Continue reading
I Ran Into My Former Talmud Teacher
Ralphs. Sunday morning. After davening. I first see him in produce so I wheel my cart into breakfast cereals. He shows up there too and proceeds up the aisle towards me. I turn my cart around and head for dairy. … Continue reading
I Have No Compassion For Drug Addicts & Alcoholics
I only have contempt. If you want to get sober, good for you, but don’t look to me for support. If you want to practice unsafe sex and catch a deadly disease (physical or spiritual), I have contempt for you. … Continue reading
Outreach To Judaism
I just got a package of materials from my father (printouts from outreachtojudaism.com) with this note: Dear Luke, Hope all is well with you – health and all things else. If you ever get a chance to look at this, … Continue reading