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Author Archives: Luke Ford
The Jurisdictional Wars: Alliance Theory and the Battle for China’s Master Institutions
China’s high-status actors do not compete for power by openly saying they want it. They compete by deploying moral languages that frame their authority as essential to national survival, technological supremacy, social stability, and civilizational rejuvenation. This is the central … Continue reading
Who Owns the State? Alliance Theory and Israel’s War Over Security, Law, and Sovereignty
Israel’s high-status actors do not compete for power by admitting they want it. They compete by deploying moral languages that frame their authority as necessary, legitimate, or indispensable. This is the core insight of David Pinsof‘s Alliance Theory. Moral vocabularies … Continue reading
The Jurisdictional Wars: Alliance Theory and the Battle for Iran’s Master Institutions
Iran’s high-status actors do not compete for power by admitting they want it. They compete by invoking moral languages that make their authority appear sacred, necessary, or inevitable. This is the logic David Pinsof‘s Alliance Theory makes visible. Moral vocabularies … Continue reading
The Jurisdictional Wars: Alliance Theory and the Battle for America’s Master Institutions
America’s high-status actors do not compete for power by admitting they want it. They compete by deploying moral languages that frame their authority as necessary, virtuous, or inevitable. This is the central insight of David Pinsof‘s Alliance Theory: moral vocabularies … Continue reading
When the Epistemology Collapses: Stephen Park Turner and the Post-Liberal Catholic Project
There is no famous direct encounter between the sociologist Stephen P. Turner and the Harvard law professor Adrian Vermeule. They operate in different institutional worlds and have rarely, if ever, addressed each other by name. Turner works in the philosophy … Continue reading
Decoding Harvard Law Professor Adrian Vermeule
Adrian Vermeule is a Harvard Law professor who converted to Catholicism and became one of the most provocative legal theorists in American academia. He advances what he calls Common Good Constitutionalism, a framework that rejects the liberal premise that the … Continue reading
Decoding Israel’s New Historians
The emergence of Israel’s New Historians in the late 1980s looks, on the surface, like a straightforward case of archival discovery. Newly declassified Israeli state documents became available, a generation of younger scholars examined them, and the founding narrative of … Continue reading
Why Is Columbia University Statistics Professor Andrew Gelman Calling Harvard Law Professor Adrian Vermeule A Fascist?
On March 17, 2026, Columbia University Statistics professor Andrew Gelman blogs: Paul Campos expresses irritation at Adrian Vermeule, the fascist-supporting Harvard professor. I feel that irritation; indeed, I share it (see also here). But I also want to draw an … Continue reading
Philosopher Of Virtue Mark Alfano Posts To Nathan Cofnas: ‘You’re about to learn why people generally avoid fucking with me.’
Mark Alfano’s tweet to Nathan Cofnas on January 20, 2020 reads, at first glance, like raw aggression. “You’re about to learn why people generally avoid fucking with me.” Most people encountering that line assume it reflects personal animosity or academic … Continue reading
The Cofnas Affair and the Logic of Coalition Enforcement
The controversy surrounding philosopher Nathan Cofnas (his Substack, X) has now followed him across two countries, five petitions, and nearly a decade of escalating institutional pressure. At Cambridge, students marched through campus chanting for his removal and posted flyers with … Continue reading