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Author Archives: Luke Ford
Why do elites love assisted suicide and push it in their movies/tv?
My mother who had terminal bone cancer was essentially given an assisted suicide in 1969 when she was down to about 50 pounds (the doctor gave hera high morphine dose that killed her). I don’t begrudge this, but I don’t … Continue reading
Decoding Dario Amodei
Per Alliance Theory, Dario Amodei is the High Priest of the “Safely Guarded Sovereign.” While Sam Altman plays the role of the “Expansionist Explorer,” Amodei has positioned Anthropic as the Institutional Oracle that tells the sovereign (the U.S. government) that … Continue reading
Micah Goodman is the High Priest of Israel’s “Center-Ground”
Per Alliance Theory, Micah Goodman is the High Priest of the “Center-Ground” and the Sovereign’s Philosopher-Counsel. While Robert Pape and Kenneth Pollack provide the technical data for coercion, Goodman provides the moralized map for the Israeli consensus. He specializes in … Continue reading
Decoding The Counsel On Foreign Relations
Per Alliance Theory, the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) is the ultimate coordination hub for the American sovereign. It is not just a think tank; it is the prestige cartel where the various tribes of the elite—finance, industry, academia, and … Continue reading
If Trump said he was going to have relations with the Ayatollah’s dead body, how would the media report it?
It would depend on the outlet and the coalition it serves, but the pattern would be fairly predictable. The mainstream institutional press would sanitize the language while emphasizing the extremity of the statement. A typical framing might look like this. … Continue reading
David Ignatius: The dangerous rise of decapitation warfare
Several things are going on in Ignatius’s column beyond the surface argument. First, Ignatius is performing a guild warning. His column is less about Iran itself and more about a doctrinal shift inside the U.S. national security system. For decades … Continue reading
WP: Iran’s regime maintains its grip, despite devastating losses
The Washington Post has long dominated the intelligence beat. It reports today: But so far, some six days into a war that has now touched 12 countries across the Middle East, major military operations have not threatened the Iranian regime’s … Continue reading
Trump Might Be On A Roll
John Ellis writes: It’s sort of an article of faith in the “mainstream” news media that President Trump’s war in Iran will end badly and do him grievous political harm. You don’t have to read between the lines of the … Continue reading
Decoding Author Walter Russell Mead
Walter Russell Mead’s lack of a graduate degree is not a deficit but a strategic advantage. It signals that his authority is derived from horizontal coordination with elites rather than vertical submission to an academic guild. By bypassing the “doctorate … Continue reading
How Expert Are International Relations Experts?
I am fascinated by expertise and by decoding what is real expertise and what is self-aggrandizement and socially destructive. I grew up on college campuses, the youngest son of a Religion professor. I love ideas. I love learning. And I … Continue reading