Luke Ford

Luke Ford
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I've written five books (see Amazon.com). I've appeared in the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, and Rolling Stone as well on 60 Minutes, ABC News, and Entertainment Tonight. I teach Alexander Technique in Beverly Hills (Alexander90210.com).

  1. 1h ago

    The Jason Arday Story (8-9-26)

    In April 2020, two weeks into the first lockdown, an assistant professor at Durham sat on a video call with two other academics of colour and described the business he worked in at 1:08:20. He said that when you rise a little, relationships turn transactional, and people deal with you because they want something. He said the biggest disappointment of his career was not any racism he had encountered but the gap between what prominent academics said about equality and what they did. He said academia had become a gig economy, and that you learn very quickly how powerful it is to be able to say things in a particular way, and how large the reputational and fiscal rewards are for saying them well. He said race was big business across every institution in society and that a lot of people were profiting from that plight. He said there comes a point where you cannot keep profiting from something if nothing is changing, and that when it comes you vacate the space. He said anyone can occupy a platform and be antagonistic, and tell white people what they need to do, and that the people doing it should get their own house in order first. He said it is easy to say things and hard to put them into action. He said academia is people telling people how good they are, matched by people telling them how good they are, so that nobody ever engages in honesty. He said many people in the sector are bereft of morals and ethics. He said there is a fine line between doing the best you can and exploiting the narrative. And he said he would be out by forty. His daughter would turn eighteen in five years, and that would be the time to step aside for a generation with new energy, because if you stay too long you either accept the system or it beats you down. Jason Arday turned forty in 2025. That year he was a professor at Cambridge with a memoir contract, a Princeton book, a Sage book series, and a speaking schedule that took him from Oxford colleges to a funeral directors’ convention in New Orleans. https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=199647 Jason Arday: ‘Things Can Only Get Better’, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=199606 1:08:30 "Here's how I exposed Jason Arday and Cambridge" | David Starkey Talks to Nathan Cofnas, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C27UXFdz0sA 1:10:00 Nathan Cofnas: The Auditor at the Border, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=184775

  2. Jun 7

    Iran Launches Fresh Missile Attacks On Israel (6-7-26)

    01:00 Autumn Gold film, https://www.autumngoldfilm.com/ 02:00 Autumn Gold: Secrecy, Time, and the Recovery of Truth, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=190968 03:00 Eric Longabardi: An Investigative Journalist Between Two Media Orders, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=190949 08:00 Project Shad, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_SHAD 10:00 Project 112, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_112 21:00 Operation Tailwind, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Tailwind 23:00 CBS Evening News broke the story in May of 2000 33:00 The business model of investigative journalism 54:40 CBS News turmoil, 60 Minutes, Scott Pelley, Bari Weiss 55:30 Deepak Chopra, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deepak_Chopra 1:06:30 Israel, Lebanon, Hezbollah, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-Jj6V8B7mk 1:27:00 The Henry Nowak Death, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=191756 1:30:30 Buck Sexton on AI, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vaIn95Bdi6g 1:38:00 Who Are The Leading Public Intellectuals Doing The Least Alliance Work?, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=191766 1:44:00 Alliance Theory and the Iran War, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=191320 1:55:00 The Clay Travis & Buck Sexton Show, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=191682 1:56:00 Buck Sexton's & Clay Travis' Predictions, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vaIn95Bdi6g 2:03:00 Decode the Declaration of Independence, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=191485 2:10:00 Convenient Beliefs, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=178665 2:12:30 Who Can Narrate?, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=172725 2:15:00 The Mark Halperin Trajectory, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=181927 2:23:00 Iran launches missiles at Israel in response to Israeli strikes on Beirut 2:40:00 Live: The Enforcer: ISRAEL ATTACKED BY IRANIAN MISSILES; MAJOR RESPONSE IMMINENT! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcVOZ_Fjif4

  3. May 31

    'Zen and the Art of Social Climbing' (5-31-26)

    01:00 Why Wembanyama Lives on the Perimeter, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=190539 02:00 My patented peer-reviewed biographies, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=181463 03:00 Highlights, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=143746 15:00 Allen Berger and the Second Stage of Recovery, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=189364 16:00 The Moral Grammars of London, Paris, Sydney, Melbourne, Tokyo, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=190263 17:00 Moral Grammars of American Elite Life: Four Cities and Four Accounts of Legitimate Influence, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=190256 18:00 The Smell Test, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=190152 19:00 The Emotional Palettes of Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide and Perth, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=190020 20:00 The Emotional Palettes of Portland, Seattle and Vancouver, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=190014 21:00 The Emotional Palettes Of San Diego, Los Angeles, San Francisco & Sacramento, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=190014 27:00 The Great Delusion, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=184359 37:00 Emotional sobriety, https://www.emotionalsobriety.info/dr-allen-berger-recovery-begins 38:00 The Landscape of Emotional Sobriety: “Live This Moment as if You Chose It”, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vbvOcHM8Ac 51:00 B******t Advice, https://www.everythingisbullshit.blog/p/b******t-advice 59:40 Yale Lit Critic Harold Bloom, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=190308 1:36:00 Orthodox Boys & The Champions League Final, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=190465 1:38:00 The Premier League and the Making of a Global Football Public in the United States, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=190429 1:48:00 Intimacy With Ourselves

  4. May 24

    When Men Were Not Afraid (5-24-26)

    01:00 When Men Were Not Afraid, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=189207 05:00 Kurt Campbell on China, Allies, and US Power, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdrz-4aLOKk 10:00 Biographies, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=181463 12:00 Highlights, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=143746 19:00 Female Reporters in the Locker Room – What Was Gained & Lost?, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=189238 59:00 Marty Beckerman: The Last Freelancer of the Pre-Platform Internet, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=189229 1:03:00 The Rage of the Disinherited Insider: The Angry WASP Writer, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=188933 1:33:00 The Translator: Desmond Ford and the Limits of Adventist Reform, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=186397 1:42:00 Neil Strauss and the Literature of Self-Construction, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=187835 1:58:00 Decoding anger

  5. Apr 26

    White House Correspondents Dinner Attack (4-26-26)

    11:00 Emergency Pod: Another Attempt on Trump, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IL6ftH2jFUs 13:00 Brian Stelter: ‘An extraordinary moment for America’s media elite is all too ordinary in America’, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=184546 16:00 Symptoms of Underearning, https://www.underearnersanonymous.org/newcomers-to-underearners-anonymous/symptoms-of-underearning/ 36:30 CSPAN Live Coverage of the attack, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HraD2CMHJGI 49:00 The Cartography of Avoidance: Historical Taboos and the Architecture of Intellectual Life, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=184528 58:00 Who Is Served And Who Is Hurt By The Frame That Hitler Was The Ultimate Evil? https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=184503 1:03:00 The Great Delusion, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=184359 1:14:00 Making Democratic Theory Democratic: Democracy, Law, and Administration after Weber and Kelsen, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=162442 1:16:00 Christopher Caldwell: ‘The Lamps Are Going Out’, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=184324 1:20:00 The Varieties of Religious Experience, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=184213 1:23:00 The Coalition Will See You Now, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=184040 1:34:00 MONTY PYTHON'S CARL SCHMITT (A FOUND FRAGMENT), https://x.com/lukeford/status/2044167769516920937 1:40:00 Platform, Pulpit, Archive: Three Models of MO Rabbinic Self-Presentation in Los Angeles, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=184006

  6. Apr 12

    Rony Guldmann on Hero Systems & Their Competing Claims of Oppression (4-12-26)

    01:00 Is the "heritage Americans" construct racist? 04:00 Star Chamber of Stanford, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=181479 11:00 Conservative Claims of Cultural Oppression, https://ronyguldmann.com/conservative-claims-cultural-oppression/ 15:00 Rony Guldmann, https://ronyguldmann.com 18:00 My writings on Rony Guldmann: https://lukeford.net/blog/?cat=42933 22:00 Conservative Claims of Cultural Oppression: On the Nature and Origins of ‘Conservaphobia’, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=181477 Guldmann’s counter-narrative is itself a carrier group performance within that order, and that the repair he is attempting requires not just exposing the mechanism of enforcement but constructing a counter-narrative compelling enough to compete with the existing trauma narrative for the formation’s symbolic allegiance. That is a much harder task than philosophical argument, however sophisticated, can accomplish, because it requires the kind of sustained symbolic work across institutional arenas, aesthetic, legal, media, academic, that Alexander identifies as the condition of civil repair. Guldmann’s memoir is one carrier group performance within that larger project. Whether it contributes to repair or simply adds to the symbolic competition between rival trauma narratives without resolving it is the question that Alexander’s framework poses and that neither Guldmann nor his antagonists can answer from inside the symbolic order they both inhabit.

  7. Apr 5

    The Custodianship Question (4-5-26)

    01:00 The Custodianship Question, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=179586 04:00 Great Rabbinic Thinkers: Rabbi Shimon Shkop (Part 1), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2mJyLomfxAU 1:20:10 Renewing the Old, Sanctifying the New (Part 11) || Dr. Marc Shapiro, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uha29bVRGMM 1:22:00 Renewing the Old, Sanctifying the New: The Unique Vision of Rav Kook by Marc B. Shapiro, https://www.amazon.com/Renewing-Old-Sanctifying-New-Civilization/dp/1802077332/ 2:00:30 Trump might mock Christianity and Islam but he treats Judaism seriously? 2:41:00 Ross Douthat: Did Jesus Rise From the Dead? A Debate with Bart Ehrman, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7EwdZ0Z_gc 2:48:00 Convenient Beliefs, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=178665 2:56:00 Ten Convenient Beliefs For This Blogger, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=179162 2:59:00 Ten Convenient Beliefs For Megyn Kelly Now, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=179200 3:00:00 Ten Convenient Beliefs For Tucker Carlson, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=179202 3:01:00 Ten Convenient Beliefs For Candace Owens, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=179206 3:02:40 Ten Convenient Beliefs For Richard Spencer Now, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=179206 3:13:00 Ten Convenient Beliefs For Scholar Marc B. Shapiro, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=179513 3:16:00 Ten Convenient Beliefs For Leaders Of Germany Now, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=179172 3:18:00 Ten Convenient Beliefs For Leaders Of Russia Now, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=179170 3:22:00 Ten Convenient Beliefs For Sociologists Now, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=179245 3:32:00 Strange Bedfellows: The Alliance Theory of Political Belief Systems, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Os0jvjssTG8 3:33:00 ESS = evolutionarily stable strategy The Custodianship Question In Canada, Latin America, Africa, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=180032 Custodianship Question in Australia, New Zealand, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=179883 Custodianship Question in Europe, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=179877 Alliance Theory and the Custodianship Question, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=180049

  8. Mar 22

    Decoding The Iran War (3-22-26)

    05:00 Video: White Identity Is Galvanizing the Right | Interesting Times with Ross Douthat, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=177297 10:00 Rabbi Aron Tendler, https://lukeford.net/profiles/profiles/aron_tendler.htm 21:00 Video: Inside Iran: Why the Regime May Be Near Collapse | Emily Schrader Interview, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=177316 23:00 When I Kissed The Teacher 29:00 The Pundit and the Paycheck, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=177314 31:00 Platform Genres: Different Rulebooks for the Same Iran War Livestream, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=177307 37:45 The Gravity of Belonging, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=177305 42:00 Libertarian Author Brian Doherty Is Dead At Age 57, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=176584 50:30 Mark Halperin brazenly eating and drinking on his stream, disavow 52:00 Genre Errors in the Iran War: You Can’t Call “Fault” on a Football Match Just Because No One Is Using a Net, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=177302 55:00 Genre Errors: Why the Wrong Rulebook Ruins Everything, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=177300 1:01:00 Nations At War Often Trade With Each Other, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=177295 International Law Won’t Stop a Missile, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=177293 1:14:30 Airpower Won the First Phase. The Hard Part Just Started. https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=177291 1:18:30 Pierre-Édouard Stérin Says The Quiet Part Out Loud – He Wants To Be A Saint, https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/22/world/europe/pierre-eduoard-sterin-france-far-right.html 1:24:00 NYT: The Courts Cannot Save Us From Trump, https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/22/opinion/constitution-trump-courts.html 1:33:00 Visiting China Is Magic!, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=177247 1:38:00 Camilla Cavendish is magic, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=177176 1:48:00 The Timeless Wisdom of George Shultz, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=177095 1:56:00 THEY DON’T WANT YOU TO SEE THIS!! THE 2026 IRAN WAR PLAN LEAKED!!!, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=176863 2:07:00 How to Fix the Media, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=177265 2:10:00 Analyzing Iran's communists 2:14:00 What is Khomeinism? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khomeinism 2:31:00 Every country lies during war. What are the painful truths the major countries in this Iran war are hiding now? https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=177099 2:33:00 The Madison, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Madison_(TV_series)

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I've written five books (see Amazon.com). I've appeared in the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, and Rolling Stone as well on 60 Minutes, ABC News, and Entertainment Tonight. I teach Alexander Technique in Beverly Hills (Alexander90210.com).

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  • Creator
    Luke Ford
  • Years Active
    2021 - 2026
  • Episodes
    514
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