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).

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Why Was Biden Aide Rebecca Lobach Flying A Black Hawk Into An American Airlines Flight? (2-2-25) 02.02.2025 4:56:06

01:00 We Finally Know The Name Of The Black Hawk Operator - Rebecca Lobach, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=158831 20:00 Video: 500-Hour Blackhawk H-60 Pilot, Rebecca Lobach, Failed to See & Avoid American Eagle 5342, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3PtOdR_VCc 48:00 Colin Liddell joins the show to discuss the DC crash, personalist vs situationist approaches, Elon Musk and the tech oligarchs 58:00 El...

We Finally Know The Name Of The Black Hawk Operator - Rebecca Lobach (2-1-25) 01.02.2025 1:59:16

01:00 Did Black Hawk Helicopter Pilot Rebecca Lobach Deliberately Crash Into American Airlines Flight 5342? (1-30-25), https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=158786 03:00 FAA turned away 1000 white applicants to be air traffic controllers because they were white, https://www.aol.com/faa-embroiled-lawsuit-alleging-turned-145209229.html 06:00 The FAA's Race-Based Hiring Scheme for Air Traffic Controllers Enda...

Who Was The Female Pilot Of That Black Hawk Helicopter That Crashed Over DC? (1-31-25) 31.01.2025 37:44

Did A Female Black Hawk Helicopter Pilot Trainee Deliberately Crash Into American Airlines Flight 5342? (1-30-25), https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=158786 https://www.npr.org/2025/01/30/nx-s1-5281246/pentagon-jet-military-helicopter-collision NPR reports: The governors of Georgia and Mississippi have identified two of the Black Hawk helicopter crew killed in a collision with a passenger airliner at Re...

MAGA Heir JD Vance & Heritage Americans (1-29-25) 29.01.2025 27:19

https://ncofnas.com/p/was-i-wrong-about-woke JD Vance: The Maga loyalist who's about to become vice-president, https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn07dv4mrg2o Mark Kelly: Trump’s immigration raids are a ‘photo op’ to ‘intimidate people’, https://www.politico.com/news/2025/01/29/mark-kelly-immigration-raids-007465 Essayist James Pogue, https://jameshensonpogue.com/, https://www.nytimes.com/by/james-...

JD Vance - The MAGA Heir Apparent (1-29-25) 29.01.2025 2:44:59

02:00 NYT: Elon Musk and His Allies Storm Into Washington and Race to Reshape It, https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/29/us/politics/elon-musk-trump-administration.html 14:50 MAGA’s Big Tech Divide (Ezra Klein talks to James Pogue): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=daNlhwAWnMA 18:00 The VP Choice: Vance vs. Walz (full documentary) | FRONTLINE, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4M_DlxA6330 55:00 NYT: As E...

Day 9 Of The New Trump Presidency (1-28-25) 28.01.2025 3:00:18

01:00 I underestimated the significance of AI 10:00 The Morning Meeting S4E17 | Trump’s First 100 Days, Democrat Realignment & Today’s Political News, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYlcwN72IW0 11:40 The Attacks From Left and Right on RFK Jr. and How He Can Win Confirmation, w/ Halperin & Turrentine, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fdwhpuVeYE 15:40 Stephen Miller clashes with CNN's Jake Tapper 1...

Is AI Coming For Your Job? (1-27-25) 27.01.2025 2:41:18

01:00 Yes, you're going to be replaced by AI, https://www.aporiamagazine.com/p/yes-youre-going-to-be-replaced 23:00 Let the great American debate begin, https://www.thefp.com/p/martin-gurri-the-great-american-debate-begins-again-trump-biden 30:00 2nd Edition: Predisposed: Liberals, Conservatives, and the Biology of Political Differences, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=154845 36:00 LA mayor Karen Bas...

Trump Proposes Cleaning Out Gaza (1-26-25) 26.01.2025 3:55:47

01:00 WSJ: Trump Says He Wants to ‘Clean Out’ Gaza, Send Refugees to Egypt and Jordan, https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/trump-says-he-wants-to-clean-out-gaza-send-refugees-to-egypt-and-jordan-d90beccc?mod=hp_lead_pos3 06:00 NYT: The Tech Arsenal That Could Power Trump’s Immigration Crackdown, https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/25/technology/trump-immigration-deportation-surveillance.html 50:00 F...

Has Donald Trump Ended The Era Of Hyperpolitics? (1-25-25) 25.01.2025 2:03:56

01:00 Jews in the American Academy, 1900-1940: The Dynamics of Intellectual Assimilation, https://www.amazon.com/Jews-American-Academy-1900-1940-Intellectual/dp/0300049412/ 10:50 Profiles in Corruption: Abuse of Power by America’s Progressive Elite by Peter Schweizer, https://www.amazon.com/Profiles-Corruption-Abuse-Americas-Progressive/dp/B07X5M8RCZ/ 16:45 The Era Of Hyperpolitics Is Over, https:...

Donald Trump & The Great Man Theory Of History (1-24-25) 24.01.2025 2:04:27

01:00 The Big Tech Takeover of American Politics, https://www.newyorker.com/news/fault-lines/the-big-tech-takeover-of-american-politics 11:00 Comedian Adam Carolla Talks About the Los Angeles Wildfires, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3MEr441LKs 20:00 Last Boys at the Beginning of History - Thymos comes to the capital by Mana Afsari, https://thepointmag.com/politics/last-boys-at-the-beginning-of-...

ENHANCED Day 3 Of The New Trump Presidency (1-22-25) 23.01.2025 3:34:09

01:00 Woke bishop lectures Donald Trump, https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/21/us/politics/bishop-mariann-edgar-budde-trump.html 10:25 Peter Zeihan has been predicting China's demise for 20 years and he keeps extending the date when this will happen, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxSVDZGfGIU 13:00 Mark Halperin, Sean Spicer clash over January 6, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2IvhU6EVR8I 19:00 Eig...

The Left Is Losing The War Of Ideas (1-23-25) 23.01.2025 2:34:18

01:00 WP: Johnson aide advised against Hutchinson subpoena over concerns about lawmakers’ ‘sexual texts’, https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/01/23/cassidy-hutchinson-lawmakers-texts/ 02:00 Cassidy Hutchinson's Tight Young Sexual Allure Trapped Republicans, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=158711 34:00 Should You Go To Law School?, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xf3KSPNkNBc 54:30 Trump's New...

Donald Trump's First Three Days As The 47th President Of The United States (1-22-25) 22.01.2025 39:19

Profiles in Corruption: Abuse of Power by America's Progressive Elite by Peter Schweizer, https://www.amazon.com/Profiles-Corruption-Peter-Schweizer/dp/006289790X Mark Halperin, Sean Spicer, Dan Turrentine: https://x.com/2waytvapp Interaction ritual chains by Randall Collins, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=142897, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=142879, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=139572 What do we me...

Day 3 Of The New Trump Presidency (1-22-25) 22.01.2025 3:34:09

Donald Trump Begins His Second Term (1-20-25) 20.01.2025 3:04:49

01:00 Trump inauguration 07:00 Ezra Klein: Trump Barely Won the Popular Vote. Why Doesn’t It Feel That Way? 11:00 The changes in vibes — why did they happen?, https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2024/07/the-changes-in-vibes-why-did-they-happen.html 15:00 Politico: An Expert in Grand Strategy Thinks Trump Is on to Something, https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2025/01/16/logic-trum...

Where Are The Elites Defending Mayor Karen Bass & Governor Gavin Newsom? (1-19-25) 19.01.2025 3:15:27

01:00 LA fires represent the failure of liberal governance, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=158603 04:00 Red-pilled Billionaires, LA Fire Update, Newsom's Price Caps, TikTok Ban, Jobless MBAs, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQ35G6XI8Uw 08:00 LAT: Amid dangerous winds in 2011, LAFD engines stood ready. That didn’t happen this time, https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-01-18/amid-dangerous-wi...

California Democrats See Their Political Ambitions Go Up In Smoke (1-17-25) 17.01.2025 3:27:48

01:00 California symbolizes Democratic party governance 05:30 LAFD administrators call for chief's retirement, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVJ4_g4VJqI 08:20 Fire Department DEI Explained (by a firefighter), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ormDCbI37Zo 14:00 Female firefighters, https://technium.substack.com/p/firemen-firewomen-and-firefighting 20:00 'No one can find a rental, it’s insane': Real...

California Burning (1-16-25) 16.01.2025 3:48:40

01:00 Real talk vs tv news talk, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYDQLQOl8f0 04:00 Karine Jean-Pierre was not selected as White House press secretary for her excellence 12:00 NYT: We Have to Stop Underwriting People Who Move to Climate Danger Zones, https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/16/opinion/la-fires-climate-home-insurance.html 15:00 Los Angeles mayor facing growing backlash over fires, https://ww...

Is LA Doomed? (1-15-25) 15.01.2025 2:49:49

01:00 NR: Mayor Karen Bass Partied While Her City Burned, https://www.nationalreview.com/the-morning-jolt/mayor-karen-bass-partied-while-her-city-burned/ 04:00 LAT: L.A. fire officials could have put engines in the Palisades before the fire broke out. They didn’t, https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-01-14/firefighters-lafd-response-lack-of-staff-engines-pacific-palisades-fire 11:00 L.A....

The Dog Who Didn't Bark - Nobody Argues California Has Great Governance (1-14-25) 14.01.2025 4:48:27

01:00 NR: Why Did California Cut Fire Prevention Spending While Keeping a Rainy-Day Fund?, https://www.nationalreview.com/the-morning-jolt/why-did-california-cut-fire-prevention-spending-while-keeping-a-rainy-day-fund/ 12:15 The FBI is terrible at background checks, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtgtSNMGBt0 14:50 Jonathan Haidt is wrong about morality | Prof Kurt Gray, https://www.aporiamagazine...

Who By Fire? (1-13-25) 13.01.2025 3:24:03

01:00 Judaism's Haunting Prayer/Unetaneh Tokef, https://www.sefaria.org/sheets/255977?lang=bi 08:00 New York: Los Angeles shouldn't rebuild the same way, https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/los-angeles-shouldnt-rebuild-the-same-way-after-wildfires.html 11:00 Bloomberg: These Homes Withstood the LA Fires. Architects Explain Why In Pacific Palisades and Malibu, some houses with fire-resistant de...

Decoding LA's Fires (1-12-25) 12.01.2025 4:36:35

05:00 WSJ: Fighting Fires—and the Rumor Mill—as L.A. Burns 09:00 Politics Fueled LA’s Fires, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=158555 10:00 California voters destroyed private home insurance, https://apple.news/AeXdYZP1qSfeNes1AGLzSAg 11:00 Fire experts describe how we can reduce these urban blazes, https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-01-11/fire-experts-asses-los-angeles-blazes-amid-changing-...

ENHANCED: Decoding LA's Fires (1-12-25) 12.01.2025 4:36:35

LA Surrounded By A Ring Of Fire (1-10-25) 10.01.2025 3:43:11

01:00 Variety: Netflix’s ‘American Primeval’ Is a Brutally Violent Western Led by a Compelling Taylor Kitsch, https://variety.com/2025/tv/reviews/american-primeval-review-netflix-taylor-kitsch-1236267125/ 04:00 Hugh Hewitt: Anger, Blame, and Accountability, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOh2Ug4KNFg 14:00 LAFD run by a lesbian mafia, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=158539 25:08 Political earthquake...

Live Coverage Of LA's Fires (1-9-25) 09.01.2025 3:31:18

01:00 The Truth About The Wildfires, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHh-_3FshO4 06:00 LA Mayor Karen Bass out of town, https://www.nationalreview.com/the-morning-jolt/a-timeline-of-mayor-karen-basss-disqualifying-conduct-during-the-l-a-fire-disaster/ 20:20 California Burning: The Fall of Pacific Gas and Electric--and What It Means for America's Power Grid, https://www.amazon.com/California-Burnin...