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Category Archives: America
The Jurisdictional Wars: Alliance Theory and the Battle for American Professional Authority
American professions do not primarily compete over who is most competent. They compete over who gets to define what requires their competence. High-status actors do not say they want power, prestige, or income. They say they are protecting the public, … Continue reading
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The Jurisdictional Wars: Alliance Theory and the Battle for American Educational Outcomes Authority
American education high-status actors do not compete for authority by openly saying they want power over data, prestige over interpretation, or control over what counts as success. They compete by invoking moral languages that frame their authority as fidelity to … Continue reading
The Jurisdictional Wars: Alliance Theory and the Battle for American Public Education Authority
American public education high-status actors do not compete for authority by openly saying they want power, prestige, or bureaucratic reach. They compete by invoking moral languages that frame their authority as fidelity to equity, inclusion, and child welfare, loyalty to … Continue reading
The Jurisdictional Wars: Alliance Theory and the Battle for American Alliance Authority
No one in American foreign policy says he wants power over the alliance system. He says he wants deterrence, credibility, stability, and shared values. This is the core insight of Alliance Theory. Moral language is not just rhetoric. It is … Continue reading
The Jurisdictional Wars: Alliance Theory and the Struggle for Authority Across American Movements
No one in any of these worlds says he wants power. The acting teacher says he serves the work. The Christian nationalist says he defends biblical truth. The dissident streamer says he tells the truth others fear to speak. The … Continue reading
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The Jurisdictional Wars: Alliance Theory and the Battle for American Christian Nationalist Authority
American Christian nationalist high-status actors do not compete for authority by openly saying they want power. They compete by invoking moral languages that present their claims as fidelity to Scripture, responsibility for cultural renewal, or defense of a threatened inheritance. … Continue reading
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The Jurisdictional Wars: Status Competition and Authority Struggles Inside American White Nationalism
American white nationalist actors do not compete for authority by openly saying they want power. They compete by invoking moral languages that present their claims as fidelity, realism, discipline, faith, or survival. This is the core insight of David Pinsof’s … Continue reading
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Gurri’s Avalanche Has No Blueprint
Martin Gurri’s column arrives like the Category 5 hurricane he invokes. The post-Cold War rules-based order was never rules or order, he argues. It was a polite fiction masking American decline and elite self-preservation. Trump has torn the fiction away. … Continue reading
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The Jurisdictional Wars: Alliance Theory and the Battle for Status Among the Right-of-Center Intellectual Reviews
No one at the Claremont Review of Books, Chronicles, First Things, American Affairs, or Compact says they want status because it gives them power. They say they defend the American regime, protect lived tradition, recover founding principles, or guard the … Continue reading
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Caldwell’s Premature Autopsy of Trumpism
Christopher Caldwell writes: Contrary to its portrayal in the newspapers, Trumpism was a movement of democratic restoration. At its center was the idea of the deep state. In recent decades, selective universities created a credentialocracy, civil-rights law endowed it with … Continue reading
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