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Category Archives: America
Class Analysis Without Permission
In 2019, the University of Michigan employed a larger number of diversity, equity, and inclusion staff than it employed faculty in its history department. This is not unusual. It is illustrative. Across American higher education, administrative positions tied to compliance, … Continue reading
I’m like the guy who reads Playboy for the articles
Even though I do not share the worldview of the Los Angeles Times, New York Times, Apple News Plus, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal and the Financial Times, I subscribe for the articles. I don’t pay for the comfort of … Continue reading
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The Summons and the Defector: Alliance Theory in the American AI Era
Americans do not compete for authority by saying they want power. They compete by invoking moral languages that frame their authority as fidelity to the American Dream, loyalty to frontier innovation, or responsibility for sustaining a high-output culture in the … Continue reading
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The Engineered Hour: Why Americans Work More and Produce More
The American economic model rests on a specific symmetry between high labor input and aggressive capital investment. Workers supply long hours and sustained intensity. Firms respond with capital that amplifies each hour of effort. The result is a system where … Continue reading
Genre Errors: Why the Wrong Rulebook Ruins Everything
Football players follow the rules of football. This is not a profound observation on a pitch. Everyone there already knows it. But move from the field to culture, politics, and media, and the obvious evaporates. We judge people by the … Continue reading
Video: White Identity Is Galvanizing the Right | Interesting Times with Ross Douthat
The discussion between Ross Douthat and Jeremy Carl illustrates several core components of David Pinsof’s Alliance Theory, particularly the concepts of victim signaling, moral branding, and competitive altruism. According to Alliance Theory, humans use moral language not to find objective … Continue reading
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Ten Zero-Sum Safety Determinations in 2026 America
A zero-sum safety determination is a specific kind of policy decision. It is not merely contested. It is structurally inverted: the identical outcome, the same door open or closed, the same person housed in the same facility, the same word … Continue reading
The Lucky Country and Its Benevolent Overseers: Safety, Paternalism, and the Australian Difference
Australia banned social media for children under sixteen on December 10, 2025, becoming the first country in the world to enforce a nationwide restriction of this scope. Within a month, 4.7 million accounts had been deactivated or restricted. The communications … Continue reading
Don’t all nations and persons impute greater meaning to their acts than the plain facts?
Someone should inform the New York Times, which is appalled that Secretary of War Pete Hegseth sees divine meaning in the Iran War. Individuals and groups usually experience their actions from the inside, where motive, hope, fear, duty, memory, and … Continue reading
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Why is college sports such a big deal in the USA and nowhere else?
The prominence of college sports in the United States results from a symmetry between historical timing, geography, and legal frameworks. Most countries developed professional sports clubs in dense urban centers during the industrial era. These clubs formed the foundation of … Continue reading