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Category Archives: America
The Definitive Book on Jewish Affinity Networks in America With Balanced Descriptions of Successes and Failures and Comparisons with other Affinity Networks
An honest treatment of Jewish affinity networks has to set out the success before the failure registers in its proper proportion. The networks have made American Jewish communal life the most successful immigrant integration stories in modern history. The fraud … Continue reading
The Asian Wife Pattern on the American National Right
The pattern is hard to miss once you see it. JD Vance (b. 1984) married Usha Chilukuri Vance (b. 1986), Indian-American and Hindu by background, at Yale Law School. Christopher Rufo (b. 1984) married Suphatra Paravichai, a Thai immigrant who … Continue reading
The Two-Tier Country: How American Elites Live Inside the Rules They Write for You
A Note on Scope This essay does not argue that elite institutions are corrupt. Corruption is the wrong frame. The frame is sociological. American elites operate inside a system in which formal rules are universal and operational rules are stratified … Continue reading
White House Correspondents Dinner Attack (4-26-26)
11:00 Emergency Pod: Another Attempt on Trump, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IL6ftH2jFUs13:00 Brian Stelter: ‘An extraordinary moment for America’s media elite is all too ordinary in America’, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=18454616:00 Symptoms of Underearning, https://www.underearnersanonymous.org/newcomers-to-underearners-anonymous/symptoms-of-underearning/36:30 CSPAN Live Coverage of the attack, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HraD2CMHJGI49:00 The Cartography of Avoidance: Historical … Continue reading
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John Rawls: Domesticating Contingency
John Rawls was born in Baltimore on February 21, 1921, the second of five sons in a prosperous professional family. His father practiced tax law and argued constitutional cases. His mother worked for women’s suffrage and later the League of … Continue reading
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Rony Guldmann on Hero Systems & Their Competing Claims of Oppression (4-12-26)
01:00 Is the “heritage Americans” construct racist?04:00 Star Chamber of Stanford, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=18147911:00 Conservative Claims of Cultural Oppression, https://ronyguldmann.com/conservative-claims-cultural-oppression/15:00 Rony Guldmann, https://ronyguldmann.com18:00 My writings on Rony Guldmann: https://lukeford.net/blog/?cat=4293322:00 Conservative Claims of Cultural Oppression: On the Nature and Origins of ‘Conservaphobia’, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=181477
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The Last Virtuous Man: How the Death of American Morality Became a Career
The mournful-American-morality genre is not philosophy. It is a terminal signaling equilibrium, a compressed competition over the meaning of a failing moral order, conducted under legacy pressure, before an audience that rewards emotionally calibrated lament, through institutional channels that select … Continue reading
The Corpse Who Writes the Autopsy: How the American University Authors Its Own Decline
The mournful-American-university genre is not scholarship. It is a terminal signaling equilibrium, a compressed competition over the meaning of a failing institution, conducted under legacy pressure, before an audience that rewards emotionally calibrated alarm, through institutional channels that select for … Continue reading
Bowling Alone, Again: The Mournful-Community Genre and the Market for Civic Grief
The mournful-American-community genre is not sociology. It is a terminal signaling equilibrium, a compressed competition over the meaning of a dying social order, conducted under legacy pressure, before an audience that rewards emotionally calibrated alarm, through institutional channels that select … Continue reading
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Amusing Ourselves to Death, Again: The Mournful-Seriousness Genre and the Market for Cultural Alarm
The mournful-American-seriousness genre is not just cultural criticism. It is a terminal signaling equilibrium, a compressed competition over the meaning of a dying cultural capacity, conducted under legacy pressure, before an audience that rewards emotionally calibrated alarm, through institutional channels … Continue reading
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