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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:
- 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)
- Benedict Anderson and the Nation as Imagination
- Anthony D. Smith: The Student Who Kept the Question and Rejected the Answer
- Ernest Gellner
- Eric Kaufmann: The Man Who Made the Majority Visible
- Dominic Cummings: A Biography
- Steve Lopez: The Last City Columnist
- California Historian Kevin Starr
- Stephen Kotkin: A Life in Power
- William T. Vollmann: An American Life in Excess
- Rod Dreher: A Life in Exile
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)
Tag Archives: amalek
My New Pad
I moved in last Saturday night. Most of my room is clear space for studying the sacred text, entertaining women, and teaching Alexander Technique! I have my bedding against one side of the room and my desks and computer against … Continue reading
Posted in Personal
Tagged Alexander Technique, amalek, doctor of divinity, future dreams, hot chicks, last saturday night, new wheels
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After 44 Months, I’m Gonna Shave Off My Beard
I just made a deal tonight to get financing for the rest of my Alexander Technique teacher training. As a condition for this loan, I’ve agreed to stay clean-shaven for at least the first year of my Alexander Technique private … Continue reading
Posted in Alexander Technique, Personal
Tagged alexander technique teacher, amalek, black suit, financial leverage, pico blvd, private practice, street cred, teacher training, wee lad
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A Jewish Horror Movie
Khunrum emails: It appears to me that Luke has written the perfect movie with a Jewish twist. All we need are some middle aged Jewish players (no sex) to play the various parents, friends and therapists who can’t stand Luke … Continue reading
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Tagged amalek, ford motors, girl fall, horror movie, parents friends, seventh day adventism
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An Entertainment Subgenre
Chaim Amalek emails: I know this no longer is Luke’s area, but there must be a market for shomer negia videos, in which women try to tempt men into touching them and the men steadfastly refuse, but are instead content … Continue reading
Posted in Orthodoxy
Tagged amalek, drugs and booze, easy virtue, female presence, hot models, men and women, merits, subculture, wannabe model
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Yisroel Pensack: New York Times Plays ‘Catch Up’ with Jewish Bloggers on Israel’s Subsidy Payments to Ultra-Orthodox Jewish Men for Full-Time Torah Study
This heavily-blogged topic is apparently news to The New York Times, which covers it at length today under the headline “Some Israelis Question Benefits for Ultra-Religious.” Isabel Kershner reports: JERUSALEM — Chaim Amsellem was certainly not the first Parliament member … Continue reading
Posted in Blogging, Israel, Judaism, New York Times, Orthodoxy, Torah, Yisroel Pensack
Tagged amalek, benefits, full-time Torah study, Isabel Kershner, R. Chaim Amsellem, shas party, ultra-Orthodox men, ultra-religious, welfare subsidies
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The Luke Ford Institute For Righteous Gentiles
Chaim Amalek writes: I miss Christmas, and we never even celebrated. Goyim have it easy. Re your latest venture, come one, what sort of Jew are you, engaging in retail tertiary economic activity when you should be wholesale, selling something … Continue reading
Posted in Personal
Tagged 7th day adventists, amalek, aussie country, evening chats, ford institute, landmark forum, luke ford, miss christmas, noahide, Sarah Palin
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Shiksa Menace 4.0
Chaim Amalek emails: Re this Tova Schreiber (and what a great name for a writer she has!), in that photo you posted she looks like something photoshopped by placing the head of an 8 year old kid on top of … Continue reading
Posted in Chaim Amalek
Tagged amalek, herr hitler, jewish character, luke ford, shiksa goddess, yellow peril
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Jews & Goldman Sachs
Chaim Amalek writes: More troubling is the current spate of attacks on Goldman Sachs (and who here remembers Joe McCarthy?). Personally, I think that a world without Goldman Sachs would be a world in which the living would envy the … Continue reading
Posted in Chaim Amalek
Tagged amalek, bais, goldman sachs, goyim, jewish power, joe mccarthy
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Let’s Try To Be Helpful
Chaim Amalek emails: Let’s try to be helpful and constructive for once. What sort of money-paying job could Luke, at this late stage in life and in this economy and given his physical condition*, actually get? All I can think … Continue reading
Posted in Personal
Tagged amalek, clerical worker, generous welfare, stage in life, welfare state
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Funeral With A Cover Charge
Chaim Amalek writes: “Luke, I understand that very soon hundreds of thousands of People of Color will be gathering to celebrate the life of a probable perderast. Given that this likely is the largest incidence of concerted communal action by … Continue reading
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Tagged amalek, communal action, hundreds of thousands, la riots, people of color
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