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Author Archives: Luke Ford
News: Supreme Court order puts California schools in legal limbo over transgender student privacy
Report: The U.S. Supreme Court’s decision this week to reinstate parents’ right to be notified of their child’s gender identity has left California schools in temporary legal limbo and advocates concerned for the safety of transgender students. In a 6-3 … Continue reading
Decoding The Stimson Center
Technical expertise, in the Stimson world, works less like a credential than a lock. When analysts frame nuclear proliferation through the language of “verification regimes” and “confidence-building measures,” they do not simply describe a problem. They define who gets to … Continue reading
Elite Narrative Convergence In Iran War
Grok says: From elite strategy circles and quasi-intel shops, the narrative is coalescing around a “pivot to endurance” – the initial shock of decapitation strikes has given way to a grinding campaign aimed at eroding Iran’s logistical backbone, but Tehran’s … Continue reading
David Petraeus Plays A Double Game
David Petraeus plays two very different roles, sometimes in the same interview, and the press rarely calls him on it. When he talks about military operations, targeting, troop movement, and operational sequencing, he speaks from genuine experience. He commanded U.S. … Continue reading
The Different Ways That The BBC, Fox News & CNN Cover The Iran War
The three networks cover the same war. They do not cover the same story. That gap is not mainly about bias in the way the word usually gets used, implying that one outlet distorts reality while others report it straight. … Continue reading
The Definitive Verdict On Trump’s Iran War
The conflict is fifteen days old. The definitive verdicts are already everywhere. That speed is not accidental, and it is not simply a product of media incentives, though those matter. The deeper engine is coalition logic. Each alliance in the … Continue reading
Why Doesn’t Self-Help Help?
Self-help sells because it promises something people desperately want: a shortcut to becoming a better version of themselves. The problem is that the very mechanism that makes self-help appealing also makes it ineffective. Reading a book about discipline feels productive. … Continue reading
How do the MSM know Trump doesn’t have a plan for the Strait of Hormuz?
They don’t know. They infer. Most mainstream reporters covering the Strait of Hormuz question work from three signals. The first is bureaucratic. In Washington reporting, journalists treat the visible behavior of institutions as a proxy for the existence of a … Continue reading
How Come There Are Only AI Objections (Anthropic, Google, etc) When America & Israel Use AI But Not When Ukraine Does?
Ben Van Roo writes: In 2018, Google walked away from a key AI contract, Project Maven, under employee pressure. I was furious at the double standard then. Social media and crypto were reshaping society in ways that dwarfed anything Maven … Continue reading
Decoding Historian Turned Pundit Phillips Payson O’Brien
Phillips Payson O’Brien is a historian who uses the past to strip the romance from the present. His work belongs to a tradition of materialist strategy that treats war as an industrial process rather than a series of heroic maneuvers. … Continue reading