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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 Islamabad Memorandum Is Words
- The Mother of the Soldiers: Rachel Edry and the Hero System of the Table
- The Hero System of Dr. Andrew Freese
- The Doorway at Re’im: Aner Shapira and the Word Sacrifice
- Not Cricket: Bradman, Bodyline, and the Hero Systems of a Sacred Game
- 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
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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)
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* 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)
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Category Archives: Personal
How To Create A Vibrant Jewish Community
Check out my live online talk show tonight at 7:30 pm PDT. People can join the chatroom and ask questions. Shlomo Walt will be giving chizzuk (encouragement) and talking about concrete ways we can bring about positive changes in our … Continue reading
I Now Offer Tuck-In Services For $100 A Night – Limited Quantities Available
Upon entering your bedroom, Luke Ford immediately begins to analyze your linen seams and pillow placement, planning a tucking strategy as you enjoy a glass of water he has poured for you. After you hydrate, Luke’s sinewy, well-groomed fingers delicately … Continue reading
Busted!
The building admin called my boss. There was a complaint about my using the single-occupancy Ladies room (when the Men’s room is in use). All sorts of men on the floor do it but I’m the one who gets busted. … Continue reading
What Is Important To You…
In January 1983, my favorite sports team, the Dallas Cowboys of the National Football League, made it to their third straight NFC championship game. They’d lost their previous two. This game was January 22, Sabbath morning. As a Seventh-Day Adventist, … Continue reading
My Friend Lane Van Howd
In the summer of 1980, my father lost his role as a Seventh-Day Adventist minister and our family moved out of the church and to Auburn, CA, 45-minutes drive north of Sacramento, where dad set up his own non-denominational evangelical … Continue reading
A New Direction
Greg Leake emails: Hi Luke, The other day in a post you made that could be associated with this one, called ‘When Did I Hit Bottom?‘, you had an inspired comment by Chaim Amalek. He suggested that your real problem … Continue reading
How Far Away Is That Land?
He sat with his arms folded across his chest, his hands gripping his triceps. And then when he stood, he quickly returned to that same posture. To walk across the room, however, he had to unclench, and when he got … Continue reading
Do I Need To Radically Change?
I had this great therapist. I respected him so much. After about 18 months of work together and after my blogging kept tripping me up and stopping me from getting along with my various communities, he said to me, “I … Continue reading
What’s The Name For This Syndrome?
What’s the name for the syndrome where you restlessly pursue reconnection with people from your past who live nowhere near you while living solitaire in your present place? This has afflicted me since 1977 when I moved to California from … Continue reading