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Author Archives: Luke Ford
Gurri’s Avalanche Has No Blueprint
Martin Gurri’s column arrives like the Category 5 hurricane he invokes. The post-Cold War rules-based order was never rules or order, he argues. It was a polite fiction masking American decline and elite self-preservation. Trump has torn the fiction away. … Continue reading
The Three Layers: Stephen Turner, Tacit Knowledge, and the War in Iran
Stephen P. Turner spent his career arguing against a comfortable assumption in the social sciences: that knowledge is a thing people possess, store, and transfer. His critique of practice theory cuts deeper than most readers realize. Knowledge is not a … Continue reading
The Jurisdictional Wars: Alliance Theory and the Battle for Status Among the Right-of-Center Intellectual Reviews
No one at the Claremont Review of Books, Chronicles, First Things, American Affairs, or Compact says they want status because it gives them power. They say they defend the American regime, protect lived tradition, recover founding principles, or guard the … Continue reading
Caldwell’s Premature Autopsy of Trumpism
Christopher Caldwell writes: Contrary to its portrayal in the newspapers, Trumpism was a movement of democratic restoration. At its center was the idea of the deep state. In recent decades, selective universities created a credentialocracy, civil-rights law endowed it with … Continue reading
The Jurisdictional Wars: Alliance Theory and the Battle for Status in Nonfiction
No one says they want prestige because it gives them power. They say this book clarifies the moment, it is deeply researched, or it changes how we think. This is the central insight of David Pinsof’s Alliance Theory. Literary status … Continue reading
The Jurisdictional Wars: Alliance Theory and the Unconscious Fight for Status Among American Elites in 2026
No one says they want status because it gives them power. They say they defend truth, protect the vulnerable, serve the public, or translate complexity for those who cannot navigate it alone. This is the central insight of David Pinsof’s … Continue reading
The Jurisdictional Wars: Alliance Theory and the Fight for Power Among American Legal Elites During the Iran War
No one says they want to control the meaning of legality because it gives them power. They say they defend the Constitution, uphold the rule of law, protect national security, or interpret complexity for those who cannot navigate war powers … Continue reading
The Jurisdictional Wars: Alliance Theory and the Battle for Power in International Law
No one says they want to control international law because it gives them power. They say they defend the rule of law, uphold sovereignty, protect victims, or interpret complexity for those who cannot navigate treaties alone. This is the central … Continue reading
The Moral Jurisdictions: Alliance Theory and the Battle to Claim Authority in the Human Rights Industry During the Iran War
Actors who work in human rights during the Iran war do not present themselves as competing for power. They present themselves as defending the vulnerable, chronicling atrocities, and translating suffering for those who cannot see it directly. This is sincere. … Continue reading
Why isn’t the world convulsed with anti-American riots now given the Iran War?
The world knows about the Iran War. Protests have broken out from Karachi to London, from Baghdad to New Delhi. A U.S. consulate was breached in Karachi, leaving more than twenty people dead. Since Operation Epic Fury began on February … Continue reading