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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:
- Two Defensible Denominators: What a Standard Accusation Dictionary Says About Luke Ford’s Archive, and Why It Says the Opposite Thing Twice
- The Second Collapse: Twenty Years of Luke Ford’s Publication Threshold, Measured
- Luke Ford and the E-Personality: Twenty-Nine Years of Disinhibition, Self-Regulation, and the Price of Friction
- The Room Around the Argument: Audience Sorting at Outside the Beltway, 2003-2026
- Steven Taylor, James Joyner and the E-Personality: Aboujaoude’s Virtually You Tested on Twenty Years of Outside the Beltway
- Amy Wax and the E-Personality: A Claim-Level Analysis, 1996-2026
- After Cathy’s Table: How Digital Platforms Reshaped a Generation of Professional Writers
- Nathan Cofnas and the E-Personality: The Auditor, the Performer, and the Cambridge Investigation
- The E-Personality of the Public Intellectual
- NYT: ‘What Do Students Lose When They Stop Writing?’
- Another National Treasure is Falling to AI (Fiction)
- What Percentage of Philip N. Cohen’s Blog Passes the Front Page Test?
- Paul Bloom’s Small Potatoes Archive
- The Two Accusations
- I Believe Everybody, Including Iran, Acts Rationally in Pursuit of their own Interests
- The Set, the Voice & the Anthropology of Philip N. Cohen
- WP: ‘Trump’s Harvard loss conceals a strategic victory’
- WSJ: ‘Even Claude Is in the Dark About Dario Amodei’s Wife—and Her Influence at Anthropic’
- ‘Is (Human) Writing Doomed? | Robert Wright & Paul Bloom’
- Sarah Knew
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)
Monthly Archives: July 2025
Conservative Claims of Cultural Oppression: On the Nature and Origins of “Conservaphobia”
1. Rony Guldmann writes about conservatives feeling like they’re being culturally oppressed. I’m like, finally, someone wrote a scholarly defense of my last 12 livestreams. 2. Reading this book felt like reading my own diary—if my diary had footnotes, more … Continue reading
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A Moral Lesson
I wrote this with ChatGPT, Grok and Gemini: So, more than 22 years ago, I met this cute, curvy Jewess at Sinai Temple’s Friday Night Live. You know the type—age-appropriate, Sephardic fire, Ashkenazi vocabulary. She had hips like a halachic … Continue reading
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The Wall Street Journal Claims I Wrote A Bawdy Letter For Jeffrey Epstein For His 50th Birthday Album!
This is fake news. I would never write something like this: Dear Jeffrey, Mazel tov on hitting the big five-oh. You’ve done more by 50 than most of us accomplish in a lifetime: built an empire, made a name, and … Continue reading
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News: ‘3 weeks after damning report leaked, FIDF chair and CEO step down’
Judah Ari Gross writes: Under mounting pressure following the leak of an internal investigation alleging internal dysfunction, inappropriate spending and a toxic work environment at the Friends of the Israel Defense Forces, the group’s embattled chair and CEO have resigned, … Continue reading
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I Passed My Youtube Ethics Review! (Satire)
YouTube Ethics Review Outcome and Contract for Luke Ford aka Fordy Date: July 20, 2025 Reviewing Board: YouTube Ethics Committee (Dr. Jane Smith, PhD in Anthropology; Dr. Robert Chen, PhD in Psychology; Dr. Emily Torres, PhD in Economics) Review Summary: … Continue reading
Don’t Free The Pedos
Alright, folks, it’s Fordy, fighting the good fight for YOU, the real heroes of this great nation! That’s right, you patriotic Americans, the ones being denied your just deserts—status, income, respect, the love and community you deserve, the traditional American … Continue reading
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Decoding The PBS Frontline Doco ‘Trump’s Power & the Rule of Law’ (7-20-25)
01:00 How do you react when people treat you with disrespect?05:00 Bret Baier on Trump’s Love-Hate Relationship with Fox News, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yPdH8ghiGOs8:45 “Very Likely the Obamas and Clintons Working Together To Take Down Trump”: Gabbard’s Russia Report, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSUugvjCxNk20:00 The Most Important … Continue reading
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The Most Important Story Right Now
As long as the Ukraine, Taiwan and Iran conflicts don’t spill into outright war between the superpowers, I see the most important news story right now as Donald Trump’s battle to transform America’s institutions, which are dominated by the left. … Continue reading
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I Don’t Like Contempt Before Investigation
I’m not immune from this tendency. ChatGPT says: Here are common examples of contempt before investigation: AI is just hype – Dismissing AI as a passing fad or gimmick without learning how it’s already reshaping industries, relationships, and cognition itself. … Continue reading
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Trump Is The Transformational President
Dennis Prager often criticized Barack Obama for wanting to “transform” America. Prager said America is great, it does not need transforming. On Sep. 7, 2010, Prager wrote: The giveaway regarding presidential candidate Barack Obama’s plans for America was his repeated … Continue reading
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