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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:
- The Witness Who Lived – Rachel Scott, Cassie Bernall, Valeen Schnurr, and the Hero Systems Built on a Single Yes
- The Disc Kept Level
- An Agent of the United States
- Prove Me Wrong: The Hero System of Charlie Kirk
- Captain Comeback and the Denial of Death
- The Flex
- 316: A Hero System Reading of Tim Tebow
- The Audience of One
- The Hero System of Rabbi Mendel Kalmenson
- The Hero System of Rabbi Baruch Shlomo Eliyahu Cunin
- Yet to Come: The Hero System of Rabbi Yisroel Ciner
- The Gallery and the Wing: Rabbi Berish Goldenberg and the Hero System of the Beit Din
- The Hero System of Rabbi Samuel Ohana
- The Judge Who Vanishes
- The Hero System of Rabbi Gershon Bess
- Out of Town That Day: Yonah Bookstein, Welcome, and the Dead
- The Hero System of Rabbi Chaim Mentz
- Counting in Ones
- Martha Nussbaum
- Stein Ringen and the Question of Good Government
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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)
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* Terror in Sydney: Analyzing the “Chanukah by the Sea” Massacre (12-14-25)
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Category Archives: Personal
I’m A Serial Enthusiast
August 11: If this is what isolating looks like, I’m doing fine! I spent about five hours in shul today. My main website, Lukeford.net, has been felled by an attack of malware and is currently blocked by Google. My feet … Continue reading
Gratitude
My therapist asked me Monday night why I didn’t express what I felt. Why did I minimize my gratitude? “I didn’t want to get overwhelmed by emotion,” I said. “It’s not worked out well for me to show too much … Continue reading
Tales From Jewish Dating Hell
Dating is the one thing you get worse at the more you do of it. I came to Los Angeles at age 27. I went to 20-something evenings at Aish Ha Torah. Then I started going to 30-somethings. What a … Continue reading
The Case Against Masturbation
More than two months ago, I gave up masturbation. (About 16 years ago, I gave up promiscuity and about two years ago, I gave up porn and any kind of visual aid to masturbation.) In 1990-1991, I gave it up … Continue reading
In My Father’s Footsteps
My boss came to my shabbos lunch talk. He said he could see my dad Desmond. He said he could see my father’s example coming out in my strut as i walked back and forth making my points… He said … Continue reading
And Then They Become Goddesses
A friend writes: Is any woman less pleasant than the formerly hot 50 year old who does not get why men don’t want her? Then they all become “goddesses”. Beware the goddess!
My Sobriety Tour
Fred emails: “Being a roadie on Luke’s Sexual Sobriety tour might be a good idea. One might meet chicks who are falling off the wagon, as it were.” The 13th step is always the slipperiest.
After 20 Years Of Well-Earned Ostracism, I’m Being Embraced By My Religious Community
And to think that 12.5 years ago, I was named “A**hole of the Month” by Larry Flynt’s flagship publication. It was an honor just to be nominated.
Pain & Perspective
In 2009, it took about five visits (and nearly $1000) to my physical therapist to get over my plantar fascitis, which had been bothering me since 2000. For almost a decade, I’d been going to a podiatrist who gave me … Continue reading
Can I Give An Inspiring Speech?
I feel relatively comfortable giving the 12-step share. You confess your shortcomings and your struggles and you say what has helped you. In Orthodox Judaism, a lot of people know that I converted and they want to know why. More … Continue reading