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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:
- Mark Brandt: The Man Who Asked Who Else Is Prejudiced
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- 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
- Dennis Prager v Cedars-Sinai Lawsuit
- Dennis Prager Through Randall Collins: Interaction Ritual Chains
- What is a ‘Received Idea’?
- Jordan Bardella: The Manufacture of Normality
- Everyone Became Television: Bourdieu’s Warning and the 2026 Iran War
- Marine Le Pen
- The Coalition-Proximity Rule
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- * The Enlightenment Wasn’t Enlightened (6-23-26)
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* 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)
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* What It Would Mean for The New York Times to Put the Reader First? (6-1-26)
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* SF v LA Legal Culture (5-27-26)
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Category Archives: Guru
Understanding the illusion of understanding
David Pinsof writes: The information we find interesting is mostly bullshit. Our appetite for information does not naturally guide us toward truth and wisdom, but toward gossip, flattery, shibboleths, and propaganda. We shop around for beliefs in much the same … Continue reading
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Nathan Cofnas: ‘Podcast Bros and Brain Rot: The only thing worse than an expert is a non-expert’
One of the great things about psychotherapy is that you can get insights that end your petty obsessions. For example, after a year of therapy, in 1999, my therapist told me that the reason I was obsessed with writing about … Continue reading
Decoding The Pundits
The hosts of the podcast Decoding the Gurus developed the Gurometer, which is “not a scientific instrument, not a psychometric scale, not a revolutionary theory.” Rather, it’s a fun analysis developed by psychologist Matt Browne and cognitive anthropologist Chris Kavanagh. … Continue reading
Decoding Decoding The Gurus
Grok says: One critique of “Decoding the Gurus” comes from listeners and observers who argue that the podcast can sometimes lean too heavily into its own biases, undermining its stated goal of objective analysis. Critics point out that hosts Christopher … Continue reading
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If I Were A Guru…
Grok says: To assess how Luke Ford, the writer and podcaster, might rank on the Decoding the Gurus “Gurometer,” we need to apply the framework that Christopher Kavanagh and Matthew Browne use to evaluate “secular gurus.” The Gurometer isn’t a … Continue reading
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‘Everyone is numbing out’
If you have strong bonds, if you have children, I don’t believe you are numbing out and I don’t believe you lack meaning and I don’t believe you have the following problems. What kind of person with children to support … Continue reading
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How to Make the Most of Your 20s
Catherine Shannon wrote: …when dating, there’s a subtle way to communicate to men that their best behavior is necessary with you. And it’s certainly not overtly stating, “I am a high-value woman.” It’s a combination of social grace, elegance, and … Continue reading
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Trump won on foreign policy (9-13-24)
The strength and weakness of much of my analysis is that I base it on my shortcomings and then project that on to public figures who seem to have the same afflictions that have troubled me. I have had, according … Continue reading
The Fund: Ray Dalio, Bridgewater Associates, and the Unraveling of a Wall Street Legend
The New York Times published Nov. 6, 2023: Ever Had a Horrible Boss? ‘The Fund’ Is the Perfect Rage-Read. In Rob Copeland’s “The Fund,” we learn about the notorious hedge-fund giant Ray Dalio — and the manipulative professional hellscape over … Continue reading
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Decoding The Greatest Motivational Speakers (12-12-23)
01:00 New Yorker: How to Build a Better Motivational Speaker: The upstart motivator Jesse Itzler wants to reform his profession—while also rising to the top, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=15355853:00 Criticizing Israel on American campuses, https://www.unz.com/isteve/president-of-penn-shoved-out/55: Putting the con in conservative: https://rumble.com/v2nqqwe-putting-the-con-in-conservative-5-14-23.html56:00 Conservative cons, … Continue reading
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