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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 Two Firings: Darren Beattie and the Turn of Trumpism
- Death’s Bookkeeper: Gregory Cochran’s Hero System
- The Bowl of Light: Heather Mac Donald’s Hero System
- The Man Who Went There: George Packer’s Hero System
- The Witnessed Life: A Hero System for Italian Sociologist Gabriella Turnaturi
- Henty’s Catechism: The Hero System of the Adventure Novel
- Help Me Understand: Ezra Klein and the Hero System of Comprehension
- The Fair Witness: Evan Osnos and the Hero System of the Even Voice
- The Hero System of UC Berkeley School of Law Dean Erwin Chemerinsky
- The Hero System of WSJ Editor Emma Tucker
- Report: Rabbi Eliyahu Haimof, Accused in Lawsuit of Sexually and Physically Abusing Child, Threatens ZA’AKAH with Lawsuit, Then with Din Torah
- Report: Oberlin Chabad Rabbi, Shlomo Elkan, Removed Banned from Campus for Allegedly Engaging in Online Conversation Describing the Sexual Abuse of Children
- Substack Article: ‘Poking a Hornet’s Nest: Breaking the Silence on Akiva Roth, EBJC, Camp Ramah and Cover-Up Culture in Conservative Judaism’
- Manny Waks Abuser Sentenced
- Report: Lakewood Resident, Shemuel Shalomchaim, Charged with Rape
- Report: Saul Len Changes His Story Again, Claims He Unwittingly Uploaded All That CSAM to Google Drive, Claims to Start Organization to Help People with Porn Addictions
- Report: North Miami Beach Resident, Yona (Shaya) Lunger, Arrested Twice, Charged with Multiple Sex Crimes Against Children
- Report: Lakewood Resident, Rabbi Yechiel Farkash, Facing Extradition to Israel for Alleged Sexual Abuse of Students at Bnei Brak Yeshiva Where He Taught, Denied Bond Ahead of Extradition Hearing
- Report: YULA Sued for Sexual Abuse of Student by Former Director of Academic Support, Julie Tichon, Who Pleaded No Contest to Sexual Abuse of Two Students in Criminal Case
- Orthodox Day School Fires Teacher For Alleged Misconduct With Student Outside of School
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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)
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* 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)
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* 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: America
One Weird Trick To Enter An Ordinary World (12-19-23)
01:00 My Third Day Without Adderall, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=15353102:00 My Subtle Low-Grade Depression, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=3191103:00 My Fourth Day On Adderall, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=15344905:00 WP : Trump disqualified from Colorado’s 2024 primary ballot by state Supreme Court, https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/12/19/trump-off-colorado-ballot/26:00 Their Friendship Dissolved Over Monetarism, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=15364232:00 John Mearsheimer: … Continue reading
Don’t Mess With Texas – Governor Signs Law To Arrest Illegals (12-18-23)
01:00 NYT: Abbott Signs Law Allowing Texas to Arrest Migrants, Setting Up Federal Showdown, https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/18/us/abbott-texas-border-law-arrests.html11:00 Uvalde response: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBofi_etkUo25:00 Elliott Blatt joins to talk about sports bars35:00 Elliott Blatt banned from Nextdoor
Decoding Joe Biden’s Foreign Policy (12-10-23)
01:00 Israel won’t accept hezbollah: https://www.ft.com/content/4d30b0fb-db32-4c22-8ebb-e979520753f918:00 Kiev Grim News: Rus Advance Rabotino, Congress Hardens Stance, Hyperinflation Fear; US Isolated Gaza, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBrwRIEoBmc23:00 News: F*** the EU: Alleged audio of US diplomat Victoria Nuland swearing35:00 NYT: Talk of a Trump Dictatorship Charges … Continue reading
Thousands of Ukrainians Have Died For Biden’s Re-Election Prospects (12-4-23)
01:00 Some people, like me, invite abuse, https://www.patreon.com/DecodingTheGurus/20:00 Thinking on rails24:00 The Duran: NATO/EU leaders fear US-Russia negotiations, https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/nato-eu-leaders-fear-us-russia-negotiations/id1442883993?i=100063728553530:45 Tim’s Message to Joe Rogan, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EO5q1m2kC0033:45 Tim Heidecker on Bill Maher and Club Random, https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=pg-DGX-gNtg38: British, American comedy 43:00 Going along … Continue reading
Get Ready For President Tucker (12-3-23)
01:00 The new streaming site, Kick: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/02/technology/kick-streaming-twitch-gambling.html02:00 The Fall: The End of Fox News and the Murdoch Dynasty, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=15348906:00 Tucker talks to Roseanne Barr, https://rumble.com/v3yp15u-november-29-2023.html07:45 Tucker has never taken the Covid vaccine09:30 Tucker doesn’t know why he was fired21:45 Tucker … Continue reading
Rape as a weapon of war in the Arab-Israeli conflict (11-26-23)
01:00 My Fourth Day On Adderall, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=15344908:00 Hamas releases 40 hostages19:30 Who is Defeated in Gaza: Israel or Hamas?, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXpg-uwq-vs50:00 Is The West An Unreliable Ally?, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=15346159:00 Rape & The Arab-Israeli Conflict, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=1534681:04:40 Tucker Carlson talks to Glenn Greenwald about … Continue reading
Is The West An Unreliable Ally?
I’m noticing this trope from many pundits — that America and the West are not stalwart allies. Is anyone a stalwart ally? I fail to see how the West is less reliable than other entities. Betrayal is inevitable in all … Continue reading
America Primed For A Massive Attack On Iran (11-19-23)
01:00 Will US attack Iran? https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/us-military-fighting-with-militias-in-the-middle/id1442883993?i=100063478822522:00 Peter Zeihan: China-US Relations: What Did Xi and Biden Discusshttps://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-duran-podcast/id144288399326:00 Biden’s disastrous press conference38:00 Stephen J James joins48:00 Describing Dooovid 58:00 My ADHD diagnosis1:15:00 SJJ feels robbed by covid from sporting success 1:21:00 Where … Continue reading
The Nix (2016)
I’m reading Nathan Hill’s novel The Nix. Here are some highlights: * “Porn is a problem for the whole project of enlightenment,” Alice said. “If otherwise rational, educated, literate, moral, and ethical men still need to look at this, then … Continue reading
The New Yorker: Jim Jordan’s Conspiratorial Quest for Power – How the Ohio Republican built an insurgent bid for Speaker on the lies of Donald Trump.
Jonathan Blitzer writes: * …online conspiracists began claiming that Starbird and other researchers at the Election Integrity Partnership had colluded with the Department of Homeland Security to censor twenty-two million tweets during the 2020 election. This was, Starbird told me, … Continue reading
