- https://PayPal.Me/lukeisback
"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: intimacy
Do You Spend Too Much Time On Facebook?
If so, I don’t think the solution for most people is to shut down their Facebook accounts. I think the important thing is to go deeper. Spending too much time on Facebook is just a symptom. For me, it is … Continue reading
Posted in Facebook
Tagged action goals, clumsy attempt, Facebook, interacting with people, intimacy, real world, true goal, true goals, youtube
Comments Off on Do You Spend Too Much Time On Facebook?
The $300 Brake Job
I haven’t used one tank of gas this summer. I’ve been frugal with my driving. It helps that my brakes don’t work too well, almost to the point where I’ll open the door and drag my feet along the crowd … Continue reading
Posted in Personal
Tagged bill margold, brake job, intimacy, master of the universe, retrospect, Torah
Comments Off on The $300 Brake Job
What Is The Future Of LimmudLA?
Is LimmudLA primarily a four-day weekend in Costa Mesa every February? Or will it become a trans-denominational force in Los Angeles bringing Jews of every stripe together on a regular basis? Is LimmudLA primarily a retreat or a movement? There … Continue reading
‘Passionate Marriage: Keeping Love & Intimacy Alive In Committed Relationships’
This is the best psychology book I’ve read all year. And it is the book I most need to read. When I have love in my life, I put most of my emotions (providing that everything else in my life … Continue reading
Posted in Marriage, Personal
Tagged boredom, dr schnarch, intimacy, love life, passionate marriage, psychology book
Comments Off on ‘Passionate Marriage: Keeping Love & Intimacy Alive In Committed Relationships’
When Do You Leave A Relationship?
David Deida says in a chapter for men: "If it is time for your intimate partnership to come to an end because you have outgrown it, then you will most likely feel a mixture of pain, grief, sadness and love, … Continue reading
Posted in Dating, David Deida
Tagged David Deida, intimacy, intimate communion, intimate partnership, lack of communication, pain grief
Comments Off on When Do You Leave A Relationship?
Rabbi Says Self-Satisfaction Is Not The Answer
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach writes to a frustrated husband: Sexual passion, intimacy and erotic joy in marriage are crucial components of a strong relationship. So you have to take this issue, and your wife’s frustration, very seriously. But your wife’s suggestion, … Continue reading
Posted in Sex
Tagged bone and flesh, fantasy women, frustration, husband and wife, instances, intimacy, jewish law, Judaism, kosher sex, premature ejaculation, principal purpose, procreation, rabbi shmuley boteach, religions, secularism, self satisfaction, sexual passion, sexual pleasure, sexuality, sin of omission
Comments Off on Rabbi Says Self-Satisfaction Is Not The Answer