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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:
- The Great Delusion About The Great Books Curriculum
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- Brandy Zadrozny: The Librarian Who Went to War
- Lee Edelman: The Man Who Said No to the Future
- Henry Louis Gates Jr.: The Man Who Rebuilt the Archive
- N. Katherine Hayles: The Chemist Who Rewrote the Human
- The Disorder of Jack Halberstam
- Sports, Family & Tribe
- David Morgan: The Man Who Took Cheap Pictures of Jesus Seriously
- Mark Juergensmeyer: The Man Who Interviewed the Holy Warriors
- David Enoch: The Philosopher Who Says Morality Is Real
- The Unsaying of Karen Armstrong
- Pope Leo XIV (b. 1955)
- Religion Scholar Russell McCutcheon
- Jonathan Zittell Smith: The Grass Breeder Who Remade the Study of Religion
- Thomas Scanlon
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- Christopher Caldwell: America is still an English country
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* Decoding The Trump Doctrine (1-4-26)
* If Tatiana Schlossberg were “Tatiana Smith” (12-30-25)
* ‘I’m So Trained’: How The Credential Society Burned Down the Palisades (12-28-25)
* Status Closure and The Lost Generation (12-25-25)
* The Bondi Massacre (12-15-25)
* Sydney Jews Learn That Their Aussie Social Contract Has Become A Suicide Pact (12-15-25)
* Terror in Sydney: Analyzing the “Chanukah by the Sea” Massacre (12-14-25)
* Decoding Nick Fuentes (11-2-25)
* The Landscape of Emotional Sobriety (10-29-30)
* The Rise & Fall Of Air Supply (10-19-25)
* No Kings, No Results: How Elite Pride Replaced Real Progress (10-19-25)
* You Are An Important Soldier In A Great War (9-7-25)
* The Revolt Of The Masses (8-31-25)
* The Covenant of Ashwood (8-24-25)
* If you can’t trust central bankers, then who can you trust? (8-23-25)
* Why Is The Elite Media Singing From The Same Hymnal About The Trump-Putin Summit? (8-17-25)
* Why Do Smart News Operations Sound So Uniformly Dumb So Often? (8-16-25)
* Nobody Is Coming (8-10-25)
* When Elites Restrict Our Speech, It’s Because They Love Truth, Freedom & Democracy (8-3-25)
Leviathan or The Matter, Forme and Power of a Commonwealth Ecclesiasticall and Civil (3-5-23)
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) (10-23-22), https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=146097
The Case Against Murder (3-3-23)
01:00 Manifesto podcast, https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/manifesto/id1378418322
03:00 Episode 22: Reluctant Prophets, https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/episode-22-reluctant-prophets/id1378418322?i=1000467462455
45:00 Rupert Murdoch Rides the Trump Tiger — and Gets Eaten, https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/03/01/rupert-murdoch-fox-trump-voting-00084839
52:00 Fox Shadowbans Donald Trump, https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2023/03/fox-news-is-reportedly-shadowbanning-donald-trump.html
54:00 Why did Japan surrender in August of 1945? The Rise of Modern Japan, https://www.audible.com/pd/The-Rise-of-Modern-Japan-Audiobook/
1:00:00 Tokyo Trial, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokyo_Trial_(miniseries)
Fox News Is Not The Boss (3-2-23)
01:00 The Rise of Modern Japan, https://www.audible.com/pd/The-Rise-of-Modern-Japan-Audiobook/
05:00 Rupert Murdoch Rides the Trump Tiger — and Gets Eaten, https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/03/01/rupert-murdoch-fox-trump-voting-00084839
49:30 Elliott Blatt joins
54:00 Our problems are not our problems
1:00:00 Feeling depressed by people in wheelchairs
1:02:00 Nicotine gum
1:06:00 Richard Spencer’s new buddy is Charles Johnson
1:08:00 When I met up with Charles Johnson
1:09:30 Chuck Johnson’s Jewish genes
1:25:00 The post Covid landscape encourages Elliott
1:30:00 Tucker Carlson on the war against Christians
Trump As A Vehicle For National Liberation (3-1-23)
01:00 Trump and liberation, https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/01/opinion/trump-desantis-2024-campaign.html
05:00 Thank You for Your Servitude: Donald Trump’s Washington and the Price of Submission, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Leibovich
10:00 What Active-Shooter Trainings Steal From Synagogues, https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/03/jewish-synagogue-anti-semitism-active-shooter-training/673239/
14:00 Author Daniel Torday doesn’t want to hear from you, http://www.danieltorday.com/contact
37:30 Elliott Blatt joins the show
39:20 Inside the Louisville Police Department, where officers are reckoning with what it means to be a cop in a city that doesn’t trust them, https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/28/magazine/louisville-police-department.html
42:30 The individual’s feelings rarely have wide significance
44:00 WEHT to vigorous social intercourse?
47:45 Employees want as much pay as possible for as little work as possible
53:00 The downsides of empathy
56:00 Sharing realism on Nextdoor
1:06:20 The Death of Dilbert and False Claims of White Victimhood, https://time.com/6259311/dilbert-racism-scott-adams/
1:12:00 Do masks really protect against COVID-19? Meta-analysis authors want to see more evidence, https://www.fiercehealthcare.com/providers/do-masks-really-protect-against-covid-19-meta-analysis-authors-want-see-more-evidence
1:23:30 Mary Eberstadt | How the West Really Lost God, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKn-sAWGLyE
1:26:00 What’s more important? Form, ritual, rhetoric or reality?
1:28:00 A Man Called Otto, https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7405458/
1:29:00 A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Beautiful_Day_in_the_Neighborhood
1:34:00 Welsh boy treble Cai Thomas (12y) sings Suo Gan, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whKw72731L8
The Thin Blue Line (2-28-23)
01:00 THE DOUBLE LIFE OF JOHN LE CARRÉ, https://www.theatlantic.com/books/archive/2023/02/john-le-carre-spy-came-in-from-cold-book/673227/
03:00 Codependency, Addiction and Insecure Attachment: What is the Connection?, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-UOVYx9_wk
12:30 Race based healthcare
19:20 PPP, Andy Warski, Nick Fuentes
21:00 NYT: Inside the Louisville Police Department, https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/28/magazine/louisville-police-department.html
52:20 Mary Eberstadt | How the West Really Lost God, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKn-sAWGLyE
The Stanford Law School Connection To The Sam Bankman-Fried Scandal (2-16-23)
03:00 Sam Bankman-Fried
1:05:00 Punishment is a dirty word to liberals
1:30:00 Vengeance is a dirty word to liberal
1:33:00 The liberal delusion of global human rights
1:37:00 The liberal delusion that we have a right to our reputation
1:40:30 How do you plan to market it?
1:47:00 The psychology of 9-11 Truthers
1:48:30 Steven Pinker
1:51:35 Mein Kampf for Rationalists
1:52:10 Mikhaila Peterson
1:53:40 Is Bazball a disgrace? https://indianexpress.com/article/explained/explained-sports/what-is-bazball-england-test-cricket-8305181/
2:03:00 Democrats are afraid of anyone questioning their manhood
2:07:00 John Fetterman getting treated for clinical depression
2:13:00 Tupac grew up middle class but had to teach himself to be a thug
2:14:50 Horrifying world of ex-LAPD cops
2:16:20 The Temptations of Carl Schmitt, https://theupheaval.substack.com/p/the-temptations-of-carl-schmitt
2:39:00 NPR: Off the air, Fox News stars blasted the election fraud claims they peddled, https://www.npr.org/2023/02/16/1157558299/fox-news-stars-false-claims-trump-election-2020
Unscripted: The Epic Battle for a Media Empire and the Redstone Family Legacy
* “One of the mysteries we confronted was why Moonves would have unleashed a corporate civil war knowing (as he did) that his predatory sexual past was at great and imminent risk of being publicly revealed.
Of course, the great media moguls—from Louis B. Mayer, Adolph Zukor, Ted Turner, John Malone, Rupert Murdoch, and Redstone himself—had never worried about such issues. They were all white men whose power and authority went unquestioned no matter how unbridled their outbursts of temper or insensitive or even bigoted their treatment of women and minorities.”
Where do the authors get the idea that Louis B. Mayer, Adolph Zukor, Ted Turner, John Malone, Rupert Murdoch, and Redstone were never questioned or challenged? Even Hitler and Stalin and Mao got questioned and challenged.
“Their boards of directors, charged with protecting all shareholders, were little more than window dressing for their autocratic control. Sumner boasted that the Viacom board had never defied his wishes.
In their world, sexual indiscretions were as routine as deals cut on the eighteenth tee at the Bel Air Country Club. Though hardly confined to the business of media and entertainment, the notion of the “casting couch”—sex in return for a job or a part—got its name in Hollywood.”
And non-white men are less likely to engage in this behavior? On what basis would you argue that?
“The veteran Hollywood producer and CBS board member Arnold Kopelson seemed baffled by concerns over Moonves’s alleged sexual advances in the workplace. “ We all did that,” he said dismissively.”
If men did not make sexual advances on women, the human race would go extinct. Why would you think that the one place where most people of working age spend most of their time would be exempt from this evolutionary compulsion?
JJ: Pico Shooting Suspect Has a “History of Antisemitism,” according to Federal Complaint
From the Jewish Journal of Los Angeles:
A federal complaint was released on February 17 detailing federal charges against Jaime Tran, 28, who is suspected of being behind both shootings in the Pico-Robertson area on February 15 and 16.
The complaint, filed by Special Agent Cody Bescript, alleges that Tran “intentionally shot Victim-1 at close range as Victim-1 was leaving religious services at a synagogue in Los Angeles, California. Victim-1 was dressed in a manner that visibly identified his Jewish faith, specifically, a black jacket and a head covering. Victim-1 survived, but sustained a gunshot wound to the lower back.
On the next day, according to the complaint, Tran “intentionally shot Victim-2 at close range as Victim-2 was leaving religious services at another synagogue, just one block from where TRAN shot Victim-1 the day before.”
“Like Victim-1, Victim-2 was dressed in clothing that visibly identified his Jewish faith, again a black jacket and a head covering. Victim-2 survived, but sustained a gunshot wound to the bicep.”
Tran has admitted to the shootings in a recorded interview, adding that he searched Yelp for a kosher supermarket. Once he found the market, he chose his victims based on their “head gear.” He also said he was homeless and had been living out of his car for the past 12-14 months; he obtained the guns from an unknown person in Arizona.
Tran has a history of antisemitism, the complaint alleges, citing an instance in which a former classmate of Tran’s, simply known as M.N.H., received multiple antisemitic phone calls and texts from Tran from August-November 2022. Tran had been expelled from dental school in 2018. Some of the antisemitic text messages from Tran highlighted in the complaint include:
“F–king Jew. Piece of shit Jew. F— YOU JEW. JEWBAG JEWBAGEL JEW.”
“Someone is going to kill you, Jew. Someone is going to kill you, Jew. Someone is going to kill you, Jew. Someone is going to kill you, Jew.”
“F—ing b—- Jew. Your mom is a slutty whore, your sister is a man, and your dad sucks dick for a living. Burn in an oven chamber you b—- Jew.”
The last text included a picture of a gas chamber, per the complaint.
Tran sent multiple emails to former classmates blaming vaccine mandates and lockdowns on “Iranian Jews” and referred to “Persian Jews” as being “primitive” and “narrow minded” who “scrap nickel and dimes” and “never donate to any charities.”
Additionally, Tran sent multiple emails to former classmates toward the end of 2022 blaming COVID-19 vaccine mandates and lockdowns on “Iranian Jews” and referred to “Persian Jews” as being “primitive” and “narrow minded” who “scrap nickel and dimes” and “never donate to any charities.” “Going forward, I hope you all spread the word to your loved ones about the origins of COVID,” he wrote in one email. “I tagged the Iranian Jew, such as [M.N.H.], and his associates in this email so you could ask them about it. I also hope they quit putting tabs on me to the Jewish community and creeping on all of my socials.”
In another email Tran accused the “Persian/Iranian Jew of the Class of 2020” of fabricating COVID-19 and basing it on an “anesthesia incident that I had with” a couple of former classmates. He also sent a picture of a flyer stating, “EVERY SINGLE ASPECT OF THE COVID AGENDA IS JEWISH.”