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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:
- Judith Butler
- ‘A Big Misunderstanding’
- Legends of the Fall (1994)
- The Edited Life: Salvatore Di Vita and the Sacred Image
- The Man at the Door
- Two Runners, Two Deaths: The Hero Systems of Eric Liddell and Harold Abrahams
- The Man From Snow River
- 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
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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)
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Category Archives: Personal
Does A Jew Need To Earn His Beard?
I was taken aback a few years ago when I had a beard when an old woman told me I had to earn the right to have a beard and I clearly had not. I thought it was clearly the … Continue reading
I Used To Party With A Lot Of Alcoholics
Though I’ve never taken drugs or imbibed much alcohol, I was wild in my late 20s and I got with some crazy women. Alcoholic women are often great and hot looking. Especially the bipolar ones. My first year in LA. … Continue reading
The Path Ahead
A friend says: You know that there are not many fertile orthodox Jewish women out there for you to pick from. Their parents do not raise them to go for a broke middle aged guy who was born into a … Continue reading
I Want To Write A Best-Selling Book
Suggested titles: * “Luke Ford: The Terror of Torah Town” * “Waiting for Moshiach: What ethical people can do to hasten the coming of the Messiah”
The North Korean Approach To Teaching
First you break the student down and then you build ’em up. Something like this. Just let me know which pedagogical style works best for you. Joey comments: “It’s extraordinary how her kinesthesia awakens and her contractions release once her … Continue reading
I’m Trying To Keep My Mind On Holy Things
So I’m listening to Torah lectures and clicking through various Youtubes with the sound off. That way I can get enough excitement to properly concentrate on every concept that comes my way but not enough excitement to violate my Jewish … Continue reading
Perky Check-Out Girl At Walgreens
I went to Walgreens on Pico and Robertson Blvds about 9:30 this morning and got two sticks of Classic Old Spice deodorant. My check-out girl was Asian and she looked like she was in high school. And she was happy. … Continue reading
Has the left coast deprived Luke of the American experience?
Greg Leake emails: Hi Luke, A few days ago you had an interesting post called “The Apprenticeship of Luke Ford.” I always appreciate the insight into yourself, and at the same time I asked myself, “Has Luke missed some of … Continue reading
The Emotional Need To Tighten
When my life is not as I wish, I feel an overwhelming need to grip or grind my teeth and to create other forms of body tension. I often feel so frustrated and angry with my life. Usually I feel … Continue reading
Checking In On My Former Church
I grew up a Seventh-Day Adventist. Even though I have no desire to be a Seventh-Day Adventist today, I have more positive feelings about my former church than negative feelings. At least I think I do. My feelings are complicated. … Continue reading