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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:
- Jonah Goldberg’s Impossible Cure
- Psychologist Daniel Kahneman and the Limits of His Method
- Anthropologist Faye Ginsburg
- Nobel Prize Winning Economist Daron Acemoglu
- Arturo Escobar – The Engineer Who Doubted Development
- Tim Ingold – The Man Who Gave the Notebooks Back
- Akhil Gupta and the State at the Counter
- The Animal That Imagines: Agustín Fuentes and the Biocultural Turn
- Belinda Carlisle – (We Want) The Same Thing
- Margaret Mead: The Porch and the Mosquito Room
- Franz Boas: No Right to Look Down
- Why Experts Hate AI
- 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
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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
Cathy Seipp’s Last Days
Cathy’s daughter Maia posts on CathySeipp.net’s comments section: “Dear commenters…this post was her last. Until I can obtain her password to get in (haven’t heard back from webmaster yet), will use this comments section as a means. My mother, Cathy … Continue reading
I Love My Kaiser Permanente Health Plan
I’ve been with the folks at Kaiser for almost five years and I’ve only had good experiences. As a sensitive artist-type, I check in with them for every malady I suffer, real or imagined. Now that I’m 40, my premium … Continue reading
My Hair’s Turning Green
I pour on the Grecian Formula every day (I’ve been using it for 12 years) and what do I get? As you walk around my head, you see splotches of black, brown, grey and green. I fear that I’m doing … Continue reading
Blessed Be The True Judge
A friend writes: My father died on 14th of shvat, after a year of declining health (renal failure–he’d been on dialysis for a little over a year). Never a great time, but it was definitely his time.Sorry about the freakout. … Continue reading
I Dated Carrie Bradshaw From ‘Sex and the City’
I never watched the HBO show when it was on the air. Then, in its final season, I dated this woman who was addicted to the show. So we watched it every Sunday night. Since then, I’ve rented most of … Continue reading
Help Me Help You
I just bought this Sony digital video recorder and I want to use it in a way that bests serves you, my faithful reader.  Email me at [email protected].
I’m A Lousy Pen Pal
Bill writes: All of your replies have been 3 or 4 words. Why so reserved? Are you concerned that you might say the wrong thing and scare me off? Do you (inaccurately) assume that the acorn didn‚Äôt grow far from … Continue reading
My Connection To Anna Nicole Smith
From ExtraTV.com: Watching Fox News Friday morning, I saw a familiar face and heard a familiar voice — Alexander Denk, Anna’s former bodyguard and boyfriend and possible father of her baby Dannielynn. I met Alexander in an acting class in … Continue reading
Al-Qaida’s No. 2 Calls Ford a Sex Addict
From Maamoun Youssef of the Associated Press: CAIRO, Egypt (AP) — Al-Qaida’s No. 2 said Luke Ford was a sex addict who wagered on Torah study and lost, according to a new audiotape released Tuesday. Ayman al-Zawahri said in the … Continue reading
I Oppose All Things Vibrating And Sensual
Nicholas blogs: My Moral Leader, Luke Ford, is against masturbation and all things vibrating and sensual. That’s because he studies Torah. Okay, so sometimes he succumbs to his yetzer hara. But not often. In fact, according to his memoir (not … Continue reading