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Category Archives: America
The Success They Mourn: How the Death of American Jewish Literature Became a Career
The mournful-American-Jewish-literature genre is not criticism. It is a terminal signaling equilibrium, a compressed competition over the meaning of a dying literary tradition, conducted under legacy pressure, before an audience that rewards emotionally calibrated elegiac clarity, through institutional channels that … Continue reading
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The Custodial Imagination
America has enjoyed real gains and suffered real losses as the result of opening up its English departments to non-WASPs. The gains are easy to talk about, the losses not so much. Who has had the courage to note the … Continue reading
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The Autopsy Surgeon: How the Expert Class Profits from Democracy’s Decline
The mournful-American-democracy genre is not just scholarship. It is a compressed competition over the meaning of a failing political order, conducted under time pressure, before an audience that rewards emotionally calibrated moral clarity, through institutional channels that select for transmissible … Continue reading
How Can We Increase Opportunities For Honor Across The IQ Spectrum?
If you get called a racist, there’s no effective defense. If you get called an anti-semite, there’s no effective defense. Groups have given devastating labels to dangerous people since time immemorial. Bad names aren’t new. They carry force when there’s … Continue reading
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The Chair Of The Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Caine, Thought The 2026 Iran War Was A Terrible Idea
Here is what grabbed my attention from today’s blockbuster in the New York Times: The C.I.A. director used one word to describe the Israeli prime minister’s regime change scenarios: “farcical.” At that point, Mr. Rubio cut in. “In other words, … Continue reading
Which Groups Have Legitimate Grievances?
Start with who currently holds the dominant coalition position in American elite institutions, meaning universities, major media, large corporations, foundations, and the administrative apparatus of government. This coalition currently designates certain conflicts of interest as legitimate grievances and others as … Continue reading
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The Custodianship Question (4-5-26)
01:00 The Custodianship Question, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=17958604:00 Great Rabbinic Thinkers: Rabbi Shimon Shkop (Part 1), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2mJyLomfxAU1:20:10 Renewing the Old, Sanctifying the New (Part 11) || Dr. Marc Shapiro, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uha29bVRGMM1:22:00 Renewing the Old, Sanctifying the New: The Unique Vision of Rav Kook by … Continue reading
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What Public Health Was Doing Before COVID Came
Before COVID arrived, American public health elites had largely remade their field in their own image. The transformation was not secret or subtle. You could read it in journal priorities, accreditation standards, and the speeches of deans. The field had … Continue reading
Ten Convenient Beliefs For Author Anne Applebaum
Stephen Turner (b. 1951) studies the beliefs that hold a group together. He calls some of them good bad theories. They do not have to map reality. They have to coordinate people, lower friction, and keep a coalition moving without … Continue reading
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Ten Convenient Beliefs For Leaders In America’s Deep State
Stephen P. Turner (b. 1951) writes about good bad theories. A theory can be false and still serve a group, so long as it helps the members act together. The belief lowers friction inside the coalition, holds the ranks against … Continue reading
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