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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:
- Jim Goad (1961-2026)
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- 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: 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
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- * 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)
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* 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)
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* San Francisco and Los Angeles as Rival Models of Urban Access (5-27-26)
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Category Archives: Addiction
Abortion
I don’t talk much about abortion. It’s not a big issue for me, but my thinking on it has been fairly consistent: Most abortions are immoral and abortion should be legal for the first trimester. I like what France does … Continue reading
Impulse Control Disorders
Here are some highlights from this 2010 book: Pathological Gambling: Promoting Risk, Provoking Ruin * Americans spend more money on gambling than on any other form of entertainment (Volberg 2001). From 1995 to 2006, consumer spending on commercial casino gambling … Continue reading
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Idea Deflection Is A Symptom Of Under-Earning
One of the 12 symptoms of under-earning according to Underearners Anonymous is: “Idea Deflection – We compulsively reject ideas that could expand our lives or careers, and increase our profitability.” I’ve been thinking about my character trait of dismissiveness. It’s … Continue reading
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Staunching Psychic Wounds
If we were walking down the street, and I was cracking jokes while blood poured out of my side, you might say, “Luke, these jokes are all well and good, but I think you should go to the hospital.” People … Continue reading
Type One & Type Two Addicts
According to the UVA website: Diabetes type 1 and type 2 come from different causes: In diabetes type 1, the pancreas does not make insulin, because the body’s immune system attacks the islet cells in the pancreas that make insulin. … Continue reading
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Recovering from a red pill overdose
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How do you create charisma?
01:20 While I was meditating, I missed out on connecting 06:00 Kevin McCarthy can’t get up as House speaker 18:00 Philosopher Stephen Turner Publishes A Memoir: Mad Hazard: A Life in Social Theory, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=146710 20:00 Another theory on charisma: https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=139572 … Continue reading
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ADHD and Hypersexuality: How The Condition Changes Desire (1-5-23)
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The Rat-a-tat of the Machine Gun of Love (12-25-22)
01:00 Seek and Hide: The Tangled History of the Right to Privacy, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=146522 04:00 Frank Harris, My Life and Loves, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Life_and_Loves 07:00 Welcome to BazBall: Can England really fly?, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgcJz-uuDms 08:00 What is Bazball? https://www.sportstiger.com/news/what-is-the-new-cricketing-term-bazball 09:00 England’s cricket manager is … Continue reading
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My Journey To No-Fap Maximalism
No-fap maximalist Luke Ford has made a pilgrimage to "manly" beach to play his stop wanking hypnotherapy tapes on loudspeaker. This is a man on a mission. https://t.co/Eu4mccdjYD — Stephen JJames (@MuskMaximalist) November 14, 2022 Before I became the No-Fap … Continue reading
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