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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:
- The Free Man at the Billabong
- One Song, Many Heavens: “Jerusalem” and the Hero Systems It Holds Together
- The Man on Every Page
- The Afterlife of Coats
- Learning to Live Forever: Rabbi Jonah Steinmetz and the Hero System of the Page
- The Hero System of Rabb Yehuda Moses
- The Accountant
- The Candle and the Name
- Gates of Hope: The Hero System of Rabbi Yael Aranoff
- The Corner of the Field
- Nearer to What?
- A Hero System Essay on St. Andrews Cathedral Music Director Ross Cobb
- The Two Monuments of Yorba Linda
- Eternity in Chalk
- The Heroism of Surrender: Bill Wilson and the Founding of Alcoholics Anonymous
- Saba Is Here
- When Other Helpers Fail
- The Hall of Eternal Life
- The Islamabad Memorandum Is Just Words
- The Mother of the Soldiers: Rachel Edry and the Hero System of the Table
BEST POSTS:
* 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
I’m No Longer Among The Top 100 ‘Lukes’ In The World
It used to be that when I put “Luke” into a search engine, the top result would be my blog. Now I put “Luke” into Google and none of the top 100 results are my blog.
The Israel Festival
I did the walk for Israel Sunday morning from Rancho Park to the Museum of Tolerance and back. I wanted to go to the Israel festival but did not want to spend $15 (if you bought in advance or $19 … Continue reading
How Do People Know I’m A Loser?
Luke: “All of my life, I’ve been into self-help. I’m always trying to improve myself and to change my position in society upward. It’s done no good. People can still see and they immediately know I belong with the least … Continue reading
Luke’s Vulnerable To Cults
From Torah Talk, April 15, 2012: Rabbi Rabbs: “The real part of Judaism is sitting around learning Torah.” Luke: “I’m getting into Tanya.” Rabbs: “Why don’t you just go to the Kabbalah Centre and get it over with?” “You’re into … Continue reading
Tired Of My Friends Trying To Set Me Up With Hot Young Women
Luke Ford tells Rabbi Rabbs: All these women I meet in their 20s, yeah, they look good, but they don’t have the wisdom of a 50 year old with grandkids. They’re not wise Latinas like Elana Kagan. That’s what I … Continue reading
I Wanted To Ask This Girl The Four Questions Of Passover
Why Luke Never Visits Rabbi Rabbs On Shabbos
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I Was The King Of Kingdom Come
I was a spiritual being. I lived in a world of light. All day long, I wrote my blog without a care in the world. I studied the sacred text and I communed with angels. I was like Peter Pan. … Continue reading
I Try To Take Control
In the fall of 1986, I took an introductory class in American government from professor Larry Wight at Sierra Community College. I loved the class and I loved the teacher. And then a funny thing happened. During each class, I … Continue reading