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Author Archives: Luke Ford
The Experts Are Back in Charge. Should We Trust Them?
Philosopher Dan Williams makes a strong case for AI as a technocratising force, but his argument rests on an assumption that Stephen Turner’s epistemic coercion framework immediately destabilizes: that expert consensus is a reasonable proxy for truth, and that nudging … Continue reading
WP: The right’s embrace of Adam Carolla cost him friends and gigs — but not his edge
Geoff Edgers writes for the Washington Post: A few years ago, in the thick of covid, Judd Apatow reached out to his friend Adam Carolla and politely suggested he try to pipe down a bit. As the nightly news reported … Continue reading
Convenient Beliefs
Convenient beliefs are not just easy beliefs. They are the beliefs that keep you inside the coalitions that sustain your life. Stephen Turner’s observation that going beyond what is convenient to believe is mostly unprofitable sounds mild. It is not. … Continue reading
Video: ‘The Craft of Writing Effectively’
This Youtube video was produced by the University of Chicago Social Sciences: “Do you worry about the effectiveness of your writing style? As emerging scholars, perfecting the craft of writing is an essential component of developing as graduate students, and … Continue reading
Stephen Turner on Elite Expert Efforts to Curate the Online World
For most of the twentieth century, elite institutions did not need to hide dissent. They could afford to ignore it. The New York Times, the Council on Foreign Relations, and the Brookings Institution derived their authority from prestige, access, and … Continue reading
AI and its Enemies
In his 2013 paper, The blogosphere and its enemies: the case of oophorectomy, Stephen Turner noted: The blogosphere is loathed and feared by the press, expert-opinion makers, and representatives of authority generally. Part of this is based on a social … Continue reading
Stephen Turner’s Unfinished Work: Gaps, Needed Boldness, and a Freer Intellectual Trajectory
Stephen Turner’s reconstruction of democratic theory begins as an act of intellectual hygiene. Strip away the myths. Discard the will of the people, justice, and the rule of law as normative ideals. What remains is procedure. Law is a hierarchy … Continue reading
Stephen Turner’s Views on Epistemic Coercion: Inherent Struggles, Digital Amplification, and the Politics of Knowledge
Stephen Turner is usually read as a critic of censorship. That is too small. What he is actually doing is stripping away one of the central fictions of modern intellectual life: the idea that coercion is an intrusion into knowledge … Continue reading
Stephen Turner’s Work on Hans Kelsen: Demystifying Realism, Proceduralism, and the Rule of Law in Democratic Theory
Stephen Turner’s revival of Hans Kelsen looks like intellectual housekeeping. Strip away the romance of democracy. Stop invoking the will of the people. Recognize that the rule of law carries no inherent moral content. What remains is procedure: law as … Continue reading
Caleb Smith – The Warden’s Critic
Yale English department chairman Caleb Smith grew up in Arkansas, in a world where power operated without the psychic refinements that the northeastern intellectual tradition associates with discipline. Clinton, Walmart, Tyson Poultry, evangelical preachers: this was a political economy that … Continue reading