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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:
- ‘Improving on Democracy’
- 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
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: America
The Comfort Of Certainty
Day 16 Of The Israel v Hamas War (10-22-23)
01:00 Why did Joe Biden visit Israel? https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=15318503:00 Thomas Baden-Riess says he’s right 05:00 Failed Islamic Jihad rocket achieves more than successful rocket launches, https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/19/opinion/biden-speech-israel-gaza.html07:00 The rocket that hit the Hamas hospital, https://www.wsj.com/video/video-analysis-shows-gaza-hospital-hit-by-failed-rocket-meant-for-israel/120A1C22-BA32-418E-8837-BC4141FEFB00.html11:30 Who’s attracted to radicalization, https://decoding-the-gurus.captivate.fm/episode/interview-with-julia-ebner-extremist-networks-radicalisation23:30 Dooovid joins, … Continue reading
Matt Gaetz’s Will To Power (10-2-23)
01:00 LAT: Matt Gaetz moves to oust Kevin McCarthy from speakership, https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2023-10-02/matt-gaetz-moves-to-oust-kevin-mccarthy-from-speakership02:00 Cancel culture has been around forever, your words and actions will elicit reactions, https://www.patreon.com/IfBooksPod06:20 The first thing you lose with power is the ability to speak out loud … Continue reading
Decoding Russell Brand (9-24-23)
01:00 Russell Brand’s rhetorical avalanche reminds me of Ben Shapiro, Matt Walsh, Nick Fuentes, Mike Enoch, Eric Striker, https://www.conspirituality.net/episodes/brief-russell-brand04:00 How Russell Brand Became the New Alex Jones, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHO04xzBY8007:00 On Bullshit, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_Bullshit08:00 If books could kill, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/If_Books_Could_Kill09:00 If books could kill … Continue reading
Decoding Christian Nationalism (8-28-23)
01:00 A Less Religious America Is a More Polarized America, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=15084603:00 Here’s What The Left-Wing Doesn’t Understand About Race Relations05:00 Your Hero System Is Your Morality And You Get It From Your Tribe, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=15031910:00 Why are Americans so mean? https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2023/09/us-culture-moral-education-formation/674765/15:00 … Continue reading
Trump Fights Multiple Indictments As America Gets Mean (8-27-23)
01:00 Trump’s mug shot04:30 Prigozhin post-mortem, https://nonzero.substack.com/p/prigozhin-post-mortemhttps://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2023/09/us-culture-moral-education-formation/674765/18:30 Hurriquake in LA last Sunday21:00 Ode To The Moral Leader by Pascal Dupin, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=11778123:45 The case for a pessimistic politics 28:45 Rich men north of Richmond 30:00 The dangers of white people going … Continue reading
Your Hero System Is Your Morality And You Get It From Your Tribe
David Brooks writes in the latest issue of The Atlantic: HOW AMERICA GOT MEAN In a culture devoid of moral education, generations are growing up in a morally inarticulate, self-referential world. Over the past eight years or so, I’ve been … Continue reading
Decoding Trauma II (8-20-23)
01:00 Conservative retired judge says Trump ‘corroded and corrupted American democracy’23:00 NYMAG: Tell Me Why It Hurts – How Bessel van der Kolk’s once controversial theory of trauma became the dominant way we make sense of our liveshttps://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/trauma-bessel-van-der-kolk-the-body-keeps-the-score-profile.html32:00 El Jim … Continue reading
Decoding Trauma (8-14-23)
01:00 Michael Oher suing the family that adopted him, https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/38190720/blind-side-subject-michael-oher-alleges-adoption-was-lie-family-took-all-film-proceeds03:00 The Blind Side, https://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/12/books/review/Will.t.html07:00 Decoding child abuse, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=14337808:00 Tell Me Why It Hurts: How Bessel van der Kolk’s once controversial theory of trauma became the dominant way we make sense … Continue reading
Decoding Liberalism and the Riverfront Brawl (8-13-23)
01:00 Dooovid joins03:00 Dooovid’s Jewish journey06:00 People go west to form new identities free from traditional fetters 20:00 Haredi Jews have given up autonomy25:00 The varieties of the conversion to Orthodox Judaism experience35:00 Beggars, security, haredi vs modern orthodox shuls52:00 … Continue reading