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Luke Ford
Hosted by Luke Ford · EN
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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Iran Launches Fresh Missile Attacks On Israel (6-7-26)
2w ago03:12:31Tap to summarize01:00 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
Transcribe →'Zen and the Art of Social Climbing' (5-31-26)
3w ago02:38:43Tap to summarize01:00 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 Bullshit Advice, https://www.everythingisbullshit.blog/p/bullshit-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
Transcribe →When Men Were Not Afraid (5-24-26)
May 2402:03:50Tap to summarize01:00 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
Transcribe →White House Correspondents Dinner Attack (4-26-26)
Apr 2601:48:07Tap to summarize11:00 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
Transcribe →Rony Guldmann on Hero Systems & Their Competing Claims of Oppression (4-12-26)
Apr 1201:24:53Tap to summarize01:00 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.
Transcribe →The Custodianship Question (4-5-26)
Apr 503:37:41Tap to summarize01:00 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
Transcribe →Decoding The Iran War (3-22-26)
Mar 2202:34:52Tap to summarize05:00 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)
Transcribe →Decoding The Iran War (3-16-26)
Mar 1602:12:03Tap to summarize01:00 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
Transcribe →Decoding The Iran War (3-8-26)
Mar 803:37:49Tap to summarize01:00 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
Transcribe →Decoding The Iran War (3-1-26)
Mar 102:14:53Tap to summarize01:00 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
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