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Author Archives: Luke Ford
Genre Errors: Why the Wrong Rulebook Ruins Everything
Football players follow the rules of football. This is not a profound observation on a pitch. Everyone there already knows it. But move from the field to culture, politics, and media, and the obvious evaporates. We judge people by the … Continue reading
Video: White Identity Is Galvanizing the Right | Interesting Times with Ross Douthat
The discussion between Ross Douthat and Jeremy Carl illustrates several core components of David Pinsof’s Alliance Theory, particularly the concepts of victim signaling, moral branding, and competitive altruism. According to Alliance Theory, humans use moral language not to find objective … Continue reading
Nations At War Often Trade With Each Other
Why are journos and pundits and experts gobsmacked that we have withdrawn sanctions against Iran oil? In reality, countries at war have often traded with each other down through history. The administration argues that this is a form of economic … Continue reading
International Law Won’t Stop a Missile
Piers Morgan writes: “So not only has Iran brazenly lied about its ballistic missile range capacity, but this means it can probably hit the UK with them – and we have zero, I repeat ZERO, defence against these missiles. Very … Continue reading
Airpower Won the First Phase. The Hard Part Just Started.
The expert story on the 2026 Iran war has not flipped. It has hardened. Three weeks in, the facts are clear. The US and Israel have air dominance. They have degraded Iran’s missiles, air defenses, and naval forces. They have … Continue reading
How To Fix The Media
This analysis examines Mark Halperin’s address at Hillsdale College regarding the structural failures of modern journalism and his proposed solution, the 2WAY model, through the lens of David Pinsof’s Alliance Theory. [00:00:33] Halperin defines the two primary purposes of journalism: … Continue reading
Pierre-Édouard Stérin Says The Quiet Part Out Loud – He Wants To Be A Saint
The New York Times reports: The Billionaire Funding France’s Far Right Pierre-Édouard Stérin is financing projects to make France less Muslim, more Catholic and more capitalist. He says his program has trained thousands running for municipal office on Sunday. The … Continue reading
Trump v Big Law
Duncan Hosie, a legal scholar at the Stanford Constitutional Law Center, writes in the NYT: Whatever the ultimate legal outcome, the Trump administration’s broader objective — chilling corporate legal resistance — had been accomplished. In the first eight months of … Continue reading
Visiting China Is Magic!
ChatGPT says: This article sells experience as a corrective to analysis, but without considering how experience itself is curated, filtered, and strategically managed. Start with the core claim: “Americans misunderstand China because they don’t visit.” That sounds reasonable. But it … Continue reading
Conservative Claims of Cultural Oppression: On the Nature and Origins of “Conservaphobia”
Conservaphobia creates a pervasive sense of danger for those who hold traditional views. In his book-in-progress Conservative Claims of Cultural Oppression, Rony Guldmann argues that this feeling of being unsafe stems from an institutionalized liberal world view. This view treats … Continue reading