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Category Archives: America
Elite Collusion To Suppress Populism
Ross Douthat writes: The modes through which Europe and Canada have sought to suppress populism involve harsh restrictions on speech, elite collusion and other expression of managerial illiberalism. And what is China’s dictatorship if not managerial illiberalism in full flower? … Continue reading
Donald Trump’s Trajectory
ChatGPT says: Alliance Theory would explain Trump’s winning two out of three presidential elections not as a puzzle of personality or ideology but as a reflection of how well his shifting coalition structures lined up with the dominant political alliances … Continue reading
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Marco Rubio’s Trajectory
ChatGPT says: Alliance Theory would see Marco Rubio’s career as the story of a man who repeatedly aligned with the wrong coalition at the wrong moment, then survived by repositioning himself as a secondary but durable node inside a shifting … Continue reading
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The Zero-Sum Nature Of Group Competition
On Dec. 15, 2025, UCLA psychology professor David Pinsof wrote: Stereotypes are savvy. Our beliefs about religious, ethnic, occupational, and geographic groups are pretty accurate. The accuracy of our stereotypes is one of the most robust and well-replicated findings in … Continue reading
Why Is the Fight Over ICE So Intense?
David Pinsof wrote Dec. 15, 2025: “Partisan hatred is not a whoopsie. You want to know why partisans hate each other? It’s not because they gave in to a dumb, primitive urge called “tribalism.” It’s not because they had a … Continue reading
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American Epistemics (1-20-26)
01:00 Hiking Runyon Canyon with Ehlers-Dahlos Syndrome, https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/ehlers-danlos-syndrome/symptoms-causes/syc-2036212505:00 If Trump Invades Greenland, Imagine The Live News Coverage!, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=16660806:00 If Trump invades Greenland, has there ever been anything funnier in world history?, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=16660609:00 Trump, Greenland, & Vulnerability, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=16664218:00 Advance Britannia: The … Continue reading
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Advance Britannia: The Epic Story of the Second World War, 1942-1945
This book by historian Alan Allport keeps it real: Underlying this way of life was an obsession with ‘PWR’ – the Prestige of the White Race. It was upon the rock of PWR – rarely spoken out loud but completely … Continue reading
Eric Kaufman: The Truth Behind the Groyper Panic
We don’t have to take people at their word unless we have overwhelming reason to do so. Normally, people do not say what they mean nor do they mean what they say. Instead, they say what is expected from them … Continue reading
A Man for the Final Season
Gemini: Thomas sits at a mahogany desk in a Century City skyscraper. The office is a masterpiece of minimalist glass, designed to suggest transparency while hiding everything. On his monitor, a single cursor blinks at the end of a digital … Continue reading
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American Epistemics – The Movie
Scene 1: The Boardroom Prayer The camera pans across a glass-walled conference room overlooking a smog-filtered Los Angeles skyline. Twelve men and women sit in ergonomic chairs, their faces illuminated by the blue glow of a massive screen displaying a … Continue reading
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