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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)
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Tag Archives: Relationships
How Much Is Lust And How Much Is Love?
A good way to tell is to ask how much time do you spend on the phone. (Dennis Prager) I think this is a great point. In my best relationships, we talk for hours. In fact, in all of my … Continue reading
Posted in Love
Tagged commitments, Dennis Prager, legacy, personal growth, Relationships
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What Is He Thinking?
This piece on AOL nails it: "If a woman ever wonders what her boyfriend or husband thinks when he looks at her, she can’t go wrong if she imagines this: He sees her as an endless abyss of need. In … Continue reading
What If It’s Not Them?
What if my problems in Orthodox Judaism are not their fault? What if it’s not Orthodox Judaism nor its rabbis nor its practitioners that have caused me so much trouble, but only myself? What if I gave the Orthodox community … Continue reading
Posted in Personal
Tagged creep, exile, foibles, holiness, individual rights, jewish community, margins, orthodox community, orthodox judaism, Rabbis, Relationships, shul, sunny jim, Torah, tradition, Truth, wise father
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Talking To Myself
"I feel like when I’m talking to you, I’m talking to myself," I said. "Huh?" she said. "I mean, I feel safe when I talk to you. It’s like I’m talking to myself. I feel that degree of safety. I … Continue reading
Posted in Personal
Tagged compliment, different lives, handful, Relationships, safe harbors, separate lives
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Amalek Explains What Luke Ford has in common with Vladimir Putin
Chaim writes: "Nothing," you might say, but you would be wrong. Consider Luke’s blossoming relationship with the Irish lass (and honorable Christian) known to the denizens of his chat room as "Emma." She is 18, he is almost 42. The … Continue reading
Posted in Chaim Amalek, Personal
Tagged chat room, denizens, economic spectrum, Emma, ford, gold medal, irish lass, logical impossibility, luke ford, nbsp, ny post, older woman, relationship, Relationships, vladimir putin, way of the world
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Rabbi Aryeh Ben David On God, Prayer And The Good Life
He wrote The Godfile: 10 Approaches to Personalizing Prayer (a book I read twice in a week instead of praying at shul). We did this interview via email: LF: What do you mean by this: "Everything that is true (vertically) … Continue reading
Posted in Aryeh Ben David, Prayer
Tagged adin, aryeh, close connection, empirical proof, lf, personal prayer, personality, physic, rabbi, rav, Relationships, rsquo, shabbat, siddur, something concrete, spiritual relationship, Spirituality, wit
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