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"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:
- A History of Carl Schmitt Studies
- Guillaume Faye
- Alain de Benoist: A Biography
- Éric Zemmour: A Biography
- The French New Right: A History
- Roland Barthes: A Biography
- Jean Raspail: The Consul of Lost Causes
- Michel Houellebecq: A Life
- Anthony Lane: A Life
- Author Philip Gourevitch
- Joseph Telushkin: The Accountant’s Son Who Taught America Judaism
- Still the Best Hope: Why the World Needs American Values to Triumph (2012)
- WP: As Christians are attacked in Israel, government shows little concern
- Life as a Haredi Jew
- Moral Philosopher Derek Parfit
- The Life of George Gilder
- Richard Posner’s Legal Pragmatism
- The MLA: A History
- The Great Delusions in History Theory
- Allan Bloom: The Teacher Who Wanted Your Soul
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: Blogging
The Best Of The Luke Ford Blog 2022-2023 (3-5-23)
02:00 LA First Impressions After Nearly Three Months Down Under (1-26-23), https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=146972 08:00 What Should You Expect From The News? (1-21-23), https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=146911 46:00 The Bright Side Of Fame (1-24-23), https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=146935 1:02:00 Holocaust denial, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKZ732GhBTk 1:38:00 Process (Liberals) Vs Ends (Conservatives) … Continue reading
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From Proud Feudal Lord To Cringing Courtier
There was a time when I ruled my virtual kingdom (blog) like a feudal lord. I didn’t have to concern myself with integrating into the wider world. I grew my own virtual vegetables. I had my own virtual solar panels. … Continue reading
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Highlights
Here is some of my better work: * A History of Carl Schmitt Studies (7-6-26) * 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 … Continue reading
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Looking For You: An Analysis Of Video Blogs
This is an article published in 2010: * As the blogosphere expanded, some — often bloggers themselves — suggested that blogs would replace elements of mainstream media (Levy, 2002). This is an overstatement when one bears in mind communications history … Continue reading
The Vlogosphere and its Enemies (6-17-21)
00:00 The blogosphere and its enemies, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=140227 03:00 Luke’s appearance on Warski Live 1-25-18, https://rumble.com/vinbbr-identities-in-western-civilization-jf-gariepy-andy-warski-luke-ford-vee-1-2.html 1:32:00 Pathological altruism 1:33:30 Catholic corruption 1:40:00 Luke upsets the internet by opposing porn 1:42:00 Letting go of sexual obsession 1:53:20 Luke Ford — the … Continue reading
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The blogosphere and its enemies: the case of oophorectomy
Professor Stephen Turner writes in The Sociological Review in 2013: * The blogosphere is loathed and feared by the press, expert-opinion makers, and representatives of authority generally. Part of this is based on a social theory: that there are implicit … Continue reading
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Figureheads, ghost-writers and pseudonymous quant bloggers: The recent evolution of authorship in science publishing
According to Wikipedia: “Bruce Graham Charlton is a retired British medical doctor and was Visiting Professor of Theoretical Medicine at the University of Buckingham.[1] Until April 2019, he was Reader in Evolutionary Psychiatry at Newcastle University.[2] Charlton was editor of … Continue reading
Modafinil Is The Official Drug Of The Rationalist Movement
The New York Times has finally published its long boring piece on Slate Star Codex and its psychiatrist author, Scott Alexander Suskind. That led me to revisit the blog and its new substack and to realize that Modafinil, a wonderful … Continue reading
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Making Friends Online
Justin Murphy blogs: The best way to build community and make friends on the internet is to treat all internet interlocutors as if they are real humans in a real-life, local village. If you do this, over time many people … Continue reading
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The Second Golden Age of Blogging
Justin Murphy writes: If the First Golden Age of Blogging saw the blog as a public amplifier of creative, intellectual talent ensconced in professional careers, today we are living through a Second Golden Age of Blogging, where the blog is … Continue reading
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