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. 4D AGO

    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

    3h 38m

  2. 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)

    2h 35m

  3. MAR 16

    Decoding The Iran War (3-16-26)

    01:00 I don’t care deeply about any 2025 movie. Am I missing something? https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=175770 03:00 AI & Operation Epic Fury, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=175723 08:00 Why the US Navy Is Letting Iran's Hormuz Blockade Destroy Itself, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVu88ZaIN1g 11:00 Michael Oren: How This War Ends, https://www.thefp.com/p/how-this-war-ends 13:00 Videos: Why the US Navy “Already Won” Before Iran Knew It Started, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=175694 17:00 Are we winning in Iran? https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=175768 20:00 The Power Of The ‘Path Dependence’ Model, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=175720 24:45 ‘The battle for the soul of Islam’, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=175761 28:00 What year marked the end of the international rules based order? 30:40 How have Zionist think tanks and lobbying groups changed their arguments to fit in with MAGA and Trump?, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=175759 34:30 The Shorter The Question, The Better The Question, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=175733 47:30 Why do elites love the word “unpack”?, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=175731 51:00 WP: 200,000 immigrants will start losing commercial licenses, https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2026/03/16/trump-immigrants-trucks/ 52:00 Why the US Navy Rushed USS Tripoli to the Strait of Hormuz, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMy69tl25r8 56:30 Jürgen Habermas: The Philosopher of the Gate, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=175711 1:02:00 From The Perspective Of The Buffered Identity, There’s Nothing Funny About A Gay Ayatollah, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=175709 1:08:00 Decoding The Israel Democracy Institute, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=175706 1:14:00 Trump reacted with hilarity to the news that the Ayatollah might be gay. How might previous American presidents reacted?, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=175692 1:20:00 If the ayatollah did a news conference where he came out as a proud gay-iranian, how might it be covered by the news media?, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=175689 1:21:00 Is Iran’s New Supreme Leader – Mojtaba Khamenei – Gay?, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=175677 1:28:00 America’s War Objectives, and Israel’s - with Nadav Eyal and Amit Segal 1:31:30 Video: Why the US Navy "Already Won" Before Iran Knew It Started, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPeqrG-C9gA 1:43:30 Michael Oren: How This War Ends, https://www.thefp.com/p/how-this-war-ends 1:48:40 How to Reopen the Strait of Hormuz, https://www.thefp.com/p/how-to-reopen-the-strait-of-hormuz 1:54:00 Anthropic doesn't decide America's rules of engagement, https://www.thefp.com/p/anthropic-doesnt-decide-our-militarys

    2h 12m

  4. MAR 8

    Decoding The Iran War (3-8-26)

    01:00 Iran’s Grand Strategy: A Political History (2025), https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=174561 11:20 Vali Nasr Exclusive: 'War is being waged ': Vali Nasr on Israel-US campaign against Iran 25:00 The First Gulf War, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=174605 28:00 Understanding The Elite Frame On The Iran War, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=174625 35:00 Mark Halperin: Trump’s Iran Strategy Explained, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPUwk2I7hO8 40:00 Why Different Groups View The Iran War Differently, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=174619 47:00 You Don’t Win Wars Through Logic & Rhetoric, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=174615 50:00 When American Presidents Tell You To Rise Up, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=174612 53:00 Why do elites love the word ‘dialogue’?, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=174610 55:00 Does Iran need to unconditionally surrender 1:39:00 Richard Haass: ‘America chose this war — and must now choose how to end it’, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=174601 1:46:00 Why do elites argue that Iran’s war plans are super rational and coolly calculating while Trump’s plans are impulsive and crazy? https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=174592 1:59:00 Why Do Elites Love The Word ‘Fraught’?, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=174599 2:02:00 Why Do Elites Love The Word ‘Metastasized’?, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=174597 2:06:30 NYT: In War’s First Week, a Punishing Military Campaign With No Coherent Endgame, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=174581 2:28:00 Why Has Trump Gone To War With Iran? | Christiane Amanpour Presents, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-CFVlQ8ftVo 2:30:00 Journos Take Public Pronouncements Too Seriously, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=174460 2:31:00 When The Search For Meaning Leads To War, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=174445 2:37:45 Decoding CNN’s Christiane Amanpour, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=174479 2:38:30 Richard Haass says Iran is not losing, https://politicalitems.substack.com/p/is-iran-not-losing 2:40:00 ‘The last thing the Middle East needed was another war’, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=174458 2:43:00 Industrial Policy for the United States: Winning the Competition for Good Jobs and High-Value Industries (2024), https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=174500 2:47:00 Is It Truth Or BS?, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=174491 2:49:30 Decoding My Life, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=169794 2:53:00 Everything shocking and big requires fuel, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=174472 2:56:00 Decoding Washington Post Columnist David Ignatius, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=174429 3:11:00 Where Is The Expert Herd Going On The Iran War?, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=174447 3:13:00 Why Do Elites Love Dubai?, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=174467 3:15:00 Where Will It Stop?, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=174464 3:18:00 Can Iran Kill Americans At Scale?, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=174505 3:22:00 Why do elites and journos love the word ‘predicate’?, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=174396 3:26:00 War With Iran: Why Now and What Comes Next, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ORmcvFYU68 3:27:00 Decoding Iran Expert Suzanne Maloney, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=174388 3:36:00 Why does the MSM fetishize “seriousness” and dismiss Trump’s team for lack thereof?, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=174363

    3h 38m

  5. MAR 1

    Decoding The Iran War (3-1-26)

    01:00 Blogging vs Streaming, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=173341 03:00 Gulf states are learning a tough David Pinsof alliance lesson — it is hard to stay neutral., https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=173375 05:00 Iran’s Elites Slaughtered, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=173386 06:00 How Eliminating Ayatollah Khameini Will Change The Middle East w/Michael Doran, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMEEVmJGUc0 10:00 Regime Change In Iran, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=173325 17:00 Feelings About Trump Frame Iran War Commentary, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=173336 22:00 Donald Trump’s Transactional Relationships, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=173384 25:00‘I Know Things That You Do Not Know’, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=173380 30:00 BBC Epistemics, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=173366 40:00 Why did some elites focus on deaths in Gaza but not protester deaths in Iran and vice versa?, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=173361 45:00 War Results From Differing Reads On Reality, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=173359 49:00 Why Tucker Opposes The War, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=173356 55:00 Patricia Marins: What runs out first, the US-Israel interceptors or Iran’s ability to launch missiles?, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=173352 57:00 Is The Iran War All About China?, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=173349 59:30 General Avivi on US & Israel’s Next Move, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=phnAKPPEMos 1:02:00 Is It Bad To Celebrate The Deaths Of Your Enemies?, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=173331 1:10:00 Calm Comes From Insulation, Not Wisdom, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=173316 1:28:00 Cliches Dominate Iran War Coverage, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=173308 1:41:00 Journalists intensely fear AI, push AI doomer narratives, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=173306 1:43:00 Just Because Iran Was Negotiating Does Not Mean It Was Negotiating In Good Faith, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=173302 1:49:00 The Pitt pushes expert ideology, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=173300 1:53:00 Justification For This War Depend Upon Unverifiable Expert Claims, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=173292 2:01:00 Why Are The High Status Pundits So Pained?, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=173271 2:02:00 Every Expert Has Had Their Priors Confirmed, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=173290 2:09:00 Who can narrate? https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=172725 2:11:30 Decoding Haviv Rettig Gur, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=173207

    2h 15m

  6. FEB 15

    Decoding Slopulism (2-15-26)

    01:00 My Struggle With Connection, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=169794 10:30 Alan Dershowitz Says Congress Does Not Want The Truth About Jeffrey Epstein, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=169031 12:30 Revealing the TRUTH of the Epstein Files WITH Alan Dershowitz https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQ7AwsEDhaY 15:00 Decoding The Moral Panic Over Jeffrey Epstein, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=169769 47:00 Decoding My Life With Alliance Theory, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=169254 59:00 Decoding Slopulism, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=169778 1:39:00 The Epstein Hysteria Is a Moral Panic | Michael Tracey, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENCPCBSDu0E 1:41:00 Why Is Opposition To Trump So Hyper-Moralized? https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=169767 1:57:00 Decoding Teal Swan, https://decoding-the-gurus.captivate.fm/episode/teal-swan-all-hail-source 2:04:00 LAT: Bass helped Raman win reelection. Now Raman wants to unseat her. Some call it ‘a betrayal’, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=169744 2:11:00 How To Get Ahead By Being Anti-Racist, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=169762 2:27:00 Morality As A Tool For Personal Advancement, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=169759 2:29:00 Alternative Healers Offer You The Opportunity To Pay Someone To Care For You, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=169792 2:33:00 Decoding Alexander Technique, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=168401 2:42:00 The Culture, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=169752 2:47:00 Shrinking, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=169606 2:53:00 The Ruling Elite’s Ten Favorite Narratives About Free Speech, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=169665 2:53:00 The Ruling Elite’s Ten Favorite Narratives, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=169661 2:55:00 The Ruling Elite’s Ten Favorite Narratives About Economics, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=169663 2:59:00 Why Did The NFL Choose Bad Bunny For Its Halftime Show?, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=168770 3:04:00 U.S. Military Build up and Protests Signals a BIG STORM Is Brewing, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EnwO4hKJxcg 3:08:20 Has California Hit Rock Bottom? 3:10:00 The Ruling Elite’s Ten Favorite Narratives, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=169661 3:18:00 Abide With Me, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=169618 3:26:00 How Much Do We Value The Human Touch?, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=169609 3:32:00 Decoding Jacob Siegel, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=168629 3:37:00 Robert Alter, “A Literary Approach to the Bible,” from The Art of Biblical Narrative, https://manifesto.fireside.fm/22 3:42:20 The Class System is Static | Kate Fox

    4h 6m

  7. FEB 1

    Rooted Citizens vs. Mobile Capital: The Real Free Trade War (2-1-26)

    01:00 Decoding the Free Trade Debate, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=167511 07:00 The British civil war has already started? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vcHTYtm7mo 1:40:00 Not Born Yesterday: The Science of Who We Trust and What We Believe, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=167522 1:41:00 DTG: Scott Galloway, Part 2: Peak Masculinity, https://decoding-the-gurus.captivate.fm/episode/scott-galloway-part-2-peak-masculinity 1:58:00 Decoding the American Revolution, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=167446 2:01:00 Why don’t ruling coalitions do a better job of buying off their most dangerous opponents? https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=167664 2:08:00 Why Americans love rhetoric about freedom and Australians love rhetoric about fairness, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=167659 2:12:00 Decoding Journalism Prizes, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=167655 2:22:00 Decoding Decoding The Gurus, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=167555 2:31:00 The Fight Over Rights, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=167651 2:35:00 How Do You Explain The Prevalence Of HIV Ads On TV?, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=167642 2:41:00 Decoding Medicine’s Embrace Of Trans Mutilations, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=167636 2:46:00 Decoding Matthew Joseph Continetti, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=167488 2:48:30 Decoding Christopher Caldwell, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=167484 2:53:00 Decoding Ezra Klein, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=167478 2:56:00 Decoding The Misinformation Debate, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=167476 2:57:00 Decoding Racial Profiling, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=167474 3:01:00 Decoding Critical Race Theory, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=167472 3:03:00 Decoding Q-Anon, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=167470 3:07:00 Is Our Democracy At Risk?, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=167468 3:12:00 Decoding The Gay Marriage Debate, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=167507 3:17:00 Why Religion Went Obsolete: The Demise of Traditional Faith in America, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=167501 3:25:00 Decoding Christopher Lasch, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=167499 3:31:00 The Politics of Expertise by Stephen Turner (2013), https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=167561 3:37:00 Decoding The Southern Poverty Law Center, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=167602 3:39:00 Decoding Extremism Studies, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=167576 3:46:00 Decoding The Anti-Defamation League, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=167588 3:48:30 Decoding Brandy Zadrozny, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=167572 3:56:00 Decoding Andrew Marantz, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=167580 3:59:20 Decoding Renée DiResta, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=167568 4:06:00 The Ten Most Intense Debates Within Orthodox Judaism Over The Past Decade, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=167591

    4h 7m

  8. JAN 30

    Has Tucker Descended Into Madness? (1-30-26)

    01:00 Has Tucker Descended Into Madness? (1-30-26) 06:00 The Rise & Fall of the Enlightenment, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=167426 18:00 The Trajectory Of Christian Nationalism, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=167419 50:00 The Golden Age For Jews In America Was A Historically Contingent Alliance That Has Now Fractured, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=167403 1:09:40 Video: Inside the New York Town Invaded by Welfare-Addicted Jews…, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=167377 1:11:30 Rodney Martin joins to talk Israel 1:15:00 ICE killings in Minnesota 1:31:00 Will Trump hit Iran? 1:48:00 New Alex Pretti Footage | The NatCon Squad, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88iTJIm3sfc 2:29:00 The Jeffrey Goldberg Trajectory, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=167401 2:32:00 The Trump-Tucker Relationship, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=167397 2:36:00 Why is the MSM fascinated by Tucker?, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=167395 2:39:30 Why does Tucker get called a class traitor?, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=167392 2:43:00 Why Has Tucker Carlson Embraced Conspiracy Theories?, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=167385

    2h 47m
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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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