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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:
- 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
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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)
* 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)
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Category Archives: Blogging
Is Jewish Blogging Still Relevant?
Blogging is relevant to anyone who’s affected by a blog. I’ve never run into anyone I’ve written about and he did not know what I had written and hadn’t formed an opinion as to whether or not I was friend … Continue reading
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What’s It Like To Become Irrelevant In Your 40s?
From July of 1997 to October of 2007, I averaged over 10,000 online readers a day. Today I average about 1/20th of that. This website, for instance, has about a fourth of the readership it averaged from 2001-2007. What does … Continue reading
If You Look Up ‘Foupe’ In The Dictionary, You’ll See My Example
I just Googled the word “foupe” and the first result was for wordnik.com and they quoted an example from this blog: Luke: “I think that one of the biggest, if not the biggest foupe, you can make in educated society … Continue reading
My Writer’s Credo
I’m reading Playwriting: Writing, Producing and Selling Your Play by Louis E. Catron. I’m on chapter four, “The Credo”. It stopped me the last time round. Catron urges you to write out your strongest convictions, at least eight of them, … Continue reading
Why Do I Write?
Sitting in Starbucks Monday, I sipped Passion Iced Tea and listened to a Tony Robbins lecture on communication. He began by asking why do we communicate? I stopped his lecture and thought about why do I write? I was stumped. … Continue reading
Has My Blog Become Irrelevant?
A friend told me the other day, “Your blog is in danger of becoming irrelevant.” I told him, “My blog became irrelevant many years ago. I only blog when I feel like it and only about what moves me in … Continue reading
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She Liked My Blog
The phone rang a few years ago. I picked it up. There was a girl’s voice. “Is this Luke Ford?” “Yes,” I said. “I like your blog,” she said. “Thank you,” I said. There was silence. “That’s it,” she said. … Continue reading
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A Photo Of A Teenage Rebbe Swimming Topless
In his second lecture on R. Meir Simcha of Dvinsk for Torah in Motion, history professor Marc B. Shapiro says: “I am in possession of a lengthy autobiography of an important rosh yeshiva who is no longer alive. This autobiography … Continue reading
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The Blogger With The Dragon Tattoo
I remind myself of the fictional journalist Mikael Blomkvist, but it is the girl with the dragon tattoo who really gets me going. I empathize with her rage and her fierce desire for independence. A big part of the reason … Continue reading
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I Was Interviewed Last Week On KCVU Radio About Growing Up Seventh-Day Adventist
KCVU 1190 AM is based in Boulder, Colorado. My main interviewer was Geoff Anderson, who like me grew up a Seventh-Day Adventist. Geoff says he remembers people getting into fistfights over my father. Geoff’s cohost Punkrock Paul also jumps into … Continue reading
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