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Author Archives: Luke Ford
NYT: An Assertive Supreme Court Turns to Curbing State Courts
Ann E. Marimow reports for the New York Times: Since President Trump returned to the White House, the Supreme Court’s conservative majority has shown a willingness to short-circuit lower-court proceedings with a slew of emergency rulings in federal cases. But … Continue reading
Experts Love Proportionate Response
In the real world, when a deliberate harm is inflicted, the victim rarely responds proportionately. They tend to up the ante. The appeal to “proportionate response” comes from two places. One is international law, especially the doctrine of proportionality in … Continue reading
Good & Bad Nationalism
People evolved to be tribal, and nationalism is just an extension of that basic instinct. Hating that hard-wiring is like hating parents who prefer their own kids to children they’ve never met on the other side of the world. When … Continue reading
War & The Constitutional Dictatorship
A dictatorship component lurks inside all functioning democracies as no constitutional order can afford to entirely rely upon procedure during extraordinary times. This 2010 paper “Constitutional Dictatorship: Its Dangers and Its Design” by two Yale law professors (Sanford Levinson Jack … Continue reading
Enthusiasm For Iran War Cools Among Experts As Complexity Sets In
Grok says: As of March 5, 2026 (roughly one week into Operation Epic Fury), Western elite attitudes toward the U.S.-Israel campaign against Iran show mixed, evolving, and increasingly cautious shifts. Initial reactions were polarized along familiar lines—hawkish support from pro-Israel/security … Continue reading
Democracy and the Politics of the Extraordinary: Max Weber, Carl Schmitt, and Hannah Arendt (2008)
This book by Andreas Kalyvas helps us understand the Iran War. 1. Wars Create “Extraordinary Politics” That Break Normal Rules The book argues that democratic systems normally operate through routine institutional politics, but occasionally politics shifts into an extraordinary phase … Continue reading
Azerbaijan Sits Quietly On Iran’s Northern Front
Azerbaijan might invade if the Iranian state weakens. 1. The Drone Strike on Nakhchivan Today, multiple kamikaze drones, identified by some local media as Arash-2 models, struck the Nakhchivan International Airport and a secondary school. President Ilham Aliyev has described … Continue reading
The Kurds & The State Of Exception
The Kurdish mobilization on the Iran-Iraq border is a live demonstration of how the State of Exception can be used as a strategic tool to dismantle a regime from the edges. While the “Managerial Diplomats” in London and Washington discuss … Continue reading
Which journalists, pundits, & experts are gaining status and prestige from this Iran war?
Gemini says: The rapid escalation of Operation Epic Fury has created a “prestige vacuum” that the hawkish alliance is filling with high-velocity narratives. As of March 5, 2026, the status hierarchy in the “Iran Hand” world has shifted from the … Continue reading
The Iran War Is Partly About Punishing Iran For Its Support Of Hamas’s 10-7 Attack
All punishment contains an element of vengeance. I realize these are dirty words from an elite perspective, but part of what is going on right now with Iran war is punishment as deterrence. As a Zionist, I was outraged after … Continue reading