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Category Archives: Academia
Decoding America’s Moral Landscape
Gemini says: Alliance Theory suggests humans treat moral disagreements as loyalty tests rather than searches for objective facts. People signal their belonging to a coalition by adopting the group’s moral stance. This mechanism turns public debate into a series of … Continue reading
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How’s it working out for American universities to get rid of objective test scores for admission?
ChatGPT says: Poorly, and the costs are now clearer than the benefits. Alliance Theory says dropping objective test scores was a coalition management move, not an educational one. It was meant to protect elite legitimacy under pressure. It has instead … Continue reading
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Decoding Critical Race Theory
ChatGPT says: Through Alliance Theory, critical race theory is powerful not because of any single claim it makes, but because of the coordination work it performs. CRT is an alliance technology. Core appeal. CRT offers a simple, totalizing map of … Continue reading
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Decoding Extremism Studies
ChatGPT says: Extremism studies claim to analyze radicalization, misinformation, polarization, and political violence. Functionally, they are an elite self-defense field. Their core purpose is not to understand dissent but to identify, label, and neutralize rival coalitions before those coalitions gain … Continue reading
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Trump vs Universities
ChatGPT says: Alliance Theory would see Trump vs the universities as a clash between two rival elite-coordination systems over who gets to define legitimacy, knowledge, and moral authority. Universities as an alliance hub. Modern universities are not just teaching centers. … Continue reading
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How To Get Ahead In Academia
ChatGPT says: Alliance Theory says academic careers are built less by discovering truth than by successfully navigating, signaling, and climbing within alliance networks that control prestige. Status comes from being central to the right coalition, not from being right. The … Continue reading
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The Replication Crisis
ChatGPT says: Alliance Theory would interpret the replication crisis less as a sudden discovery that many social-science findings are “false,” and more as a structural shift in the alliance incentives that govern what kinds of claims get produced, rewarded, and … Continue reading
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NYT: Genetic Data From Over 20,000 U.S. Children Misused for ‘Race Science’
Given that anything that violates one’s hero system is experienced as harm, the category of “harm” governing academic research must be rife with abuse that advances one hero system over another. Mike McIntire writes for the New York Times: Genetic … Continue reading
LAT: College women far outnumber men in law, medical, vet schools
The Los Angeles Times reports: Officials from associations of graduate and professional schools who are trying to recruit more men said the gender shift can be self-perpetuating. Men may be put off by what they see as the “feminization” of … Continue reading
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Fox News: 40-year Harvard professor pens scathing piece on school’s ‘exclusion of white males,’ anti-Western trends
Fox reports: James Hankins said admissions committee told him accepting White male applicant was ‘not happening this year’ A history professor who taught at Harvard University for 40 years has left the Ivy League for greener pastures, penning a biting … Continue reading