- 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:
- Tournier on Desmond Ford
- The Borrowed Robe: How Antisemitism Dresses in Each Age’s Virtue
- 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
- 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
- Nigel Farage
- Bernard Haykel: A Life Between the Text and the Gun
- Walker Connor (1926-2017)
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: Nick Fuentes
Covenant Against Empire: The Project of Yoram Hazony
Part Two Yoram Reuben Hazony (b. 1964) belongs to a small group of contemporary thinkers who build not only books but movements. He writes philosophy, founds institutes, recruits donors, organizes conferences, and places himself at the center of a global … Continue reading
Posted in Amy Wax, Benjamin Netanyahu, Carl Schmitt, Epistemics, Leo Strauss, Nathan Cofnas, Nick Fuentes, Orit Arfa, Steve Sailer, Tucker Carlson, Yoram Hazony
Comments Off on Covenant Against Empire: The Project of Yoram Hazony
The Jurisdictional Wars: Status Competition and Authority Struggles Inside the Groyper World
No one in the Groyper world says he wants power for its own sake. He says he wants fidelity. He says he wants courage, honesty, seriousness, and a willingness to say what others are too frightened to say. This is … Continue reading
Posted in Nick Fuentes
Comments Off on The Jurisdictional Wars: Status Competition and Authority Struggles Inside the Groyper World
City Journal: The Freak World of Nicholas J. Fuentes
I don’t think this article damages Nick one bit (and my politics are 100x closer to Rufo’s than to Fuentes’s). Chris Rufo and company write: Fuentes is best understood as an actor in what postmodern theorist Jean Baudrillard called “hyperreality.” … Continue reading
Posted in Nick Fuentes
Comments Off on City Journal: The Freak World of Nicholas J. Fuentes
The Decline & Fall Of Nick Fuentes
ChatGPT says: By Alliance Theory standards, Nick Fuentes peaked years ago, roughly 2019 to early 2020. Here is the clean way to see it. Peak influence is not follower count. It is leverage inside larger coalitions. In 2019 Fuentes had … Continue reading
Posted in Nick Fuentes
Comments Off on The Decline & Fall Of Nick Fuentes
The Middle Path
Paul Gottfried writes Feb. 1, 2026: A recent discussion among our editorial board focused on how we can navigate the vital center between two unacceptable positions on what now passes for the American right. Those two unacceptable positions are, on … Continue reading
Posted in Alt Lite, Alt Right, America, Nick Fuentes, Ted Cruz
Comments Off on The Middle Path
The Nick Fuentes Trajectory
ChatGPT says: Alliance Theory would explain Nick Fuentes less as an ideologue and more as a hyper-factional coalition engineer who is trying to carve out a high-status niche inside a collapsing and recombining right-wing alliance system. His starting position was … Continue reading
Posted in Nick Fuentes
Comments Off on The Nick Fuentes Trajectory
The Concept Of The Political
In his foreword to the 2007 edition of Carl Schmitt’s 1932 book The Concept of the Political, philosopher Tracy B. Strong writes: “Schmitt claimed that liberalism’s reliance on procedure led to a depoliticization and dehumanization of the world.” If you … Continue reading
Posted in Nationalism, Nazi, Nick Fuentes, Politics
Comments Off on The Concept Of The Political
The Nick Fuentes Stress Test
Nick Fuentes has almost no institutional power. He has no PAC, no major donors, no elected allies, no foothold in conservative media. Yet he scares mainstream conservatives far more than bigger and better funded actors. The fear comes from what … Continue reading
Posted in Nick Fuentes
Comments Off on The Nick Fuentes Stress Test
The Charisma Wars: Fuentes, Tucker and Shapiro in a Post-Liberal, Post-Christian America (11-23-25)
01:00 Why So Much Positive Coverage Of Dick Cheney Last Week? https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=16508703:40 Hal Brands on US-China 2026, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DfTpN6nLEo006:00 I Like This Trump Peace Plan For Ukraine, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=16506318:00 Porn Stars & The Rootless Elite, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=16506645:00 Rony Guldmann Revisits Liberal Fascism, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=16505259:00 … Continue reading
Posted in America, Ben Shapiro, Nick Fuentes, Tucker Carlson
Comments Off on The Charisma Wars: Fuentes, Tucker and Shapiro in a Post-Liberal, Post-Christian America (11-23-25)