- https://PayPal.Me/lukeisback
"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:
- Jim Goad (1961-2026)
- Moira Greyland
- Robert Oscar Lopez: The Inconvenient Witness
- Two Ledgers: Decoding the Gurus and the Price of Talk
- The Pervert’s Progress: Costin Vlad Alamariu and the Making of Bronze Age Pervert
- Curtis Yarvin: A Life Against Democracy
- Mark Helprin: A Life Against the Current
- Mark Brandt: The Man Who Asked Who Else Is Prejudiced
- John T. Jost: The Psychologist of Acquiescence
- Strange Bedfellows in the Academy: Alliance Theory and the Straussian Schism
- Tournier on Desmond Ford
- The Fence and the Blessing: How Jews Have Thought About Gentiles
- Tournier on Luke Ford
- Tournier on The Nostradamus Kid
- An Alliance Theory of Antisemitism
- Tournier on Cinema Paradiso and Desmond Ford
- The Self-Hating Jew
- The Alliance Theory in the Academy
- The Borrowed Robe: How Antisemitism Dresses in Each Age’s Virtue
- A Place For You
BEST POSTS:
- * The Enlightenment Wasn’t Enlightened (6-23-26)
* Mr. Burge Draws The Line (6-23-26)
* 'Improving on Democracy' (6-17-26)
* People Leak To People Who Are Fun (6-11-26)
* Why Does Australia Produce So Many Great Journalists? (6-11-26)
* Steve Wynn and the Press: Power, Litigation, and the Contest Over Las Vegas (6-3-26)
* Sheldon Adelson and the Journalists (6-3-26)
* The Vigilant Animal: Thinkers Who Reject the Myth of Human Gullibility (6-2-26)
* The Cost of Refusing the Misunderstanding Myth (6-2-26)
* Show Me How It Travels (6-2-26)
* The Norm Explainers (6-2-26)
* Centering Marginalized Voices (6-1-26)
* What would it look like if the Washington Post put its reader first? (6-1-26)
* What would it look like if the Financial Times put its reader first? (6-1-26)
* What It Would Mean for the Los Angeles Times to Put the Reader First? (6-1-26)
* What It Would Mean for The New York Times to Put the Reader First? (6-1-26)
* Why Wembanyama Lives on the Perimeter (5-31-26)
* The Emotional Palettes Of San Diego, Los Angeles, San Francisco & Sacramento (5-27-26)
* The Administrative Capital: Sacramento Legal Culture (5-27-26)
* San Diego - The Quiet Republic (5-27-26)
* The Quiet Bar: San Diego Legal Culture (5-27-26)
* SF v LA Legal Culture (5-27-26)
* Why Talent Travels Poorly Between San Francisco and Los Angeles (5-27-26)
* San Francisco and Los Angeles as Rival Models of Urban Access (5-27-26)
* Social Cliques in New York, 2026 (5-25-26)
* Social Cliques in San Francisco, 2026 (5-25-26)
* The Rival Courts of Washington (5-25-26)
* The City of Private Rooms (5-25-26)
Category Archives: Addiction
Rachel Resnick
Rachel Resnick (b. 1961) comes home to a drowned hard drive. An ex-boyfriend has broken into her cottage and soaked the machine that holds her work, her drafts, her record of herself. She is past forty. She is single, broke, … Continue reading
Posted in Addiction, Jewish Journalism, Jewish Literature
Comments Off on Rachel Resnick
The Heroism of Surrender: Bill Wilson and the Founding of Alcoholics Anonymous
The room at Towns Hospital smells of paraldehyde. It is December 1934. Bill Wilson (1895-1971) lies in the bed where Manhattan sends its drinking men to dry out, and the doctor who runs the place, William Silkworth (1873-1951), has already … Continue reading
Posted in Addiction
Comments Off on The Heroism of Surrender: Bill Wilson and the Founding of Alcoholics Anonymous
The Allen Berger Voice
Allen Berger speaks in two voices that trade off line by line. The first is the plural “we.” He folds the reader into a shared diagnosis before the reader can object. We treat ourselves as objects. We are addicted to … Continue reading
Posted in Addiction
Comments Off on The Allen Berger Voice
‘Zen and the Art of Social Climbing’ (5-31-26)
01:00 Why Wembanyama Lives on the Perimeter, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=19053902:00 My patented peer-reviewed biographies, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=18146303:00 Highlights, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=14374615:00 Allen Berger and the Second Stage of Recovery, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=18936416:00 The Moral Grammars of London, Paris, Sydney, Melbourne, Tokyo, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=19026317:00 Moral Grammars of American Elite Life: … Continue reading
Posted in Addiction
Comments Off on ‘Zen and the Art of Social Climbing’ (5-31-26)
The Self After the Drink: Allen Berger and the Second Stage of Recovery
Allen Berger helped turn sobriety from a chemical idea into a theory of emotional adulthood. A clinical psychologist, psychotherapist, and addiction counselor, a Vietnam veteran, and a long participant in Twelve Step recovery, he became a major interpreter of what … Continue reading
Posted in Addiction
Comments Off on The Self After the Drink: Allen Berger and the Second Stage of Recovery
The Silent Son
A young Orthodox man at twenty-three, raised in Pico-Robertson, schooled at a yeshiva, sitting next to his father at the Shabbos table. He has been using oxycodone for two years. He has not told his parents. He has not told … Continue reading
Posted in Addiction, Masculinity, Orthodoxy
Comments Off on The Silent Son
The Heart Attack Euphemism
Young Orthodox men, often married with children, keep dying of drug overdoses. Their families called the deaths heart attacks. The pattern shows up in LA, Brooklyn, Lakewood, and Queens. Rabbi Zvi Gluck of Amudim has reported more than sixty opioid-related … Continue reading
Decoding The Fight Over Love Addiction
The NYT reports: “Is Love Addictive? Many Say Yes, and It’s Changing Our Idea of Romance. Poems and songs say love should be world-shattering. The logic of love addiction suggests that it shouldn’t.” ChatGPT says: The fight over “love addiction” … Continue reading
Posted in Addiction, Love, Psychiatry, Psychology
Comments Off on Decoding The Fight Over Love Addiction
I Hallucinate, You Hallucinate, We All Hallucinate
People, who are prone to hallucinations, created AI, so why would AI not hallucinate? Psychologists distinguish between hallucinations, which involve sensory perceptions without a stimulus, and delusions, which are fixed false beliefs. Americans experience both at high rates. Research suggests … Continue reading
Posted in Addiction, Psychology
Comments Off on I Hallucinate, You Hallucinate, We All Hallucinate
Trumpcare Should Be Modeled On Vouch Nationalism
Here’s what a Trumpcare-style replacement for Obamacare would probably look like, drawing from past GOP proposals and Trump’s own public statements. Core components Shift subsidies from insurers to individuals or states. • Obamacare gives income-based premium tax credits for people … Continue reading