Luke Ford

About Luke Ford

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).

Publisher

Luke Ford

Category

news

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

7 Dec 2021

Latest episode

25 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

1 of 1,169 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   25 Oct 2026

   The Bargain at NatCon Jerusalem (10-25-26)

   0:00 Why people burn down their own neighborhoods 3:33 Tim Dillon on riots in France 6:34 Why I’ve been writing instead of livestreaming 7:14 Sleep, CPAP and waking up with a dry mouth 8:49 Why success and responsibility make people boring 10:52 Solo livestreaming, loneliness and avoiding negotiation 14:45 Desmond Ford, friendship and why people leave church 15:35 Losing the friend who held my social world together 19:17 How the people around you influence your behavior 24:26 National Conservatism on riots in France 30:00 Why riots excite people on the left and right 33:11 Adobe, Microsoft, Amazon and ESPN versus my preferences 37:32 The right’s obsession with ‘civil war’ in Britain 39:14 Growing up Adventist and getting tired of apocalypse talk 44:29 Elon Musk, Donald Trump and calling people con men 48:11 Why bullies keep bullying 51:07 Why do we feel resentment? 52:56 Sadness, loss and finding a way forward 59:05 Amy Wax: “Against Nature-On Robert Wright’s The Moral Animal” (1996) 1:03:14 Reciprocity, status and the alliances behind success 1:05:14 Why virtue signaling can be virtuous 1:08:53 Shunning, gossip and the cost of a bad reputation 1:11:30 Insecurity and overcompensation 1:16:19 Why revealing your vulnerabilities can lower your status 1:19:19 How winning and losing interactions affect your energy 1:24:40 Criticizing people who have been kind to me 1:25:57 Gaining status by providing value to others 1:34:55 Why we stop following politics when our side is losing 1:39:52 The Red Green Alliance and the power of a common enemy 1:41:25 Handling frustration, children’s tantrums and corporal punishment 1:43:40 Jewish and Protestant approaches to raising children 1:46:51 Amy Wax, social conservatism and the fragility of civilization 1:52:16 The Cornell Seven, consent and public accusations 1:55:26 Dustfall and Believe Me: compelling television and “believe women” 1:58:38 Goolagong 1:59:11 My father, moral lectures and being called “Pet” 2:04:52 Rabbi Eliyahu David Rabinowitz Teomim, the Aderet (Part 7) || Dr. Marc Shapiro 2:12:51 Communal reputation and reporting rape to the authorities 2:16:07 Rabbinical courts, secular courts and vigilante punishment 2:18:47 How China’s Economic Miracle Shattered 2:21:41 Bachelorhood and deeper difficulties with human connection 2:24:14 Live by the algorithm, die by the algorithm 2:26:45 Investing in the Black Caucus vs investing to win 2:38:06 The NatCon Controversy 2:38:47 Slow Horses 2:42:35 What women want in a partner 2:45:17 Love, sex and the meaning of life 2:47:23 Men and women are different 2:52:02 The New Right, Israel and national interests 2:55:48 The Bargain at NatCon Jerusalem 3:00:08 Individual rights, group interests and political alliances 3:03:37 Tucker Carlson, antisemitism and the incentives of the New Right 3:06:06 Yoram Hazony | The Jewish People in a Post-Liberal World | NatCon Jerusalem 3:09:21 Immigration and the limits of individual rights 3:12:59 Free trade, national interests and work with dignity 3:16:39 Jewish political alliances in a post-liberal world 3:22:14 Hazony on antisemitism on the political right 3:29:08 Podcast influence versus electoral support 3:34:49 Who belongs in a nationalist coalition? 3:40:55 Rabbi Yosef Mizrachi and giving an audience what it wants 3:46:24 Gadi Taub | Immigration and the Undermining of Democracy | NatCon Jerusalem 3:50:13 How to give unsolicited advice 3:52:24 Israel’s courts, Netanyahu and democratic authority 3:55:06 How rewards and belonging change our identities 3:57:35 George Washington, foreign alliances and American interests 4:01:06 States’ rights, national interests and global institutions

2. 

   11 Aug 2026

   The Career of Media Strategist David G. Hall

   Talk Radio Programmer David G. Hall, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=191799 DavidGHall.com: "There is a crazy amount of messages coming at us all day every day from all sides. Most are trying to sell us something or take something from us. But, mixed in with all the nonsense are voices that inform us, entertain us, keep us company, and help us understand what’s going on in the world, or help us escape. The louder the noise, the more important it is that we understand what a listener wants and cut through the confusion to engage them in honest communication. That’s what we do at every level. From launching national and local radio stations and major podcasts to working with local presenters and niche podcasts, we help you identify your audience, understand them, and then talk to them in such a way that they come back for more, again and again. We’ve been doing this since 1994 with the launch of the first spoken word network to compete with the BBC in the UK. We also started the first ever spoken word radio network in Poland after the fall of communism. We’ve done this on four continents, in five languages, in both music and spoken word formats across all platforms: on air, online, and on demand. Every project is unique. We have no cookie-cutter templates and no formulas. Every client becomes family. When we’re In, we’re in it to win."

3. 

   10 Aug 2026

   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

Who has been a guest on Luke Ford

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• Nathan Cofnas
• Kip
• Mark Halperin
• John Podhoretz
• Noah Rothman

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Apple Podcasts (US)

2.3 / 5

6 ratings

Spotify

3.9 / 5

7 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 57 / 100

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Quality

79

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

85

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