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Category Archives: America
Donald Trump’s Transactional Relationships
Trump is not a zealot for any lobby. He is focused on what he perceives as leverage and advantage for the United States and for his own political positioning. Recent reporting on the major military action against Iran under Trump’s … Continue reading
How do America’s various social classes view each other?
Here’s the Alliance Theory map. Social classes are not just income tiers. They are rival status systems competing to define what counts as dignity. Upper class Currency is capital control. Ownership, boards, networks, legacy institutions. They view the upper middle … Continue reading
How Do Residents Of America’s Ten Biggest Cities View Each Other?
Here is the Alliance Theory map of how residents of the ten biggest US cities implicitly read one another. This is reputation logic, not tourism copy. New York City New Yorkers see themselves as the apex city. Cultural capital, finance, … Continue reading
How do doctors, chiropractors, accountants, lawyers, and engineers view each other?
Here’s the Alliance Theory map. These five professions are not just jobs. They are rival authority systems with different status currencies. Doctors Currency is life-and-death sovereignty. They make irreversible decisions under uncertainty. That gives them moral prestige. How they view … Continue reading
How do the major American groups view each other?
Per Alliance Theory, this is how groups read one another in America today, based on status competition, moral leverage, and institutional power. Groups assess each other by asking three questions, usually unconsciously: Who has prestige. Who controls institutions. Who can … Continue reading
Decoding Rabbi Meir Soloveichik
Per Alliance Theory: Rabbi Meir Soloveichik does not operate primarily inside the yeshiva power structure. He operates at the intersection of Orthodoxy, American conservatism, and elite policy culture. That changes the game. He is not trying to reform halachic authority … Continue reading
Decoding First Things
First Things through Alliance Theory looks less like a journal of ideas and more like an alliance-coordination hub for a specific elite moral coalition. First Things is not trying to discover truth in a neutral sense. It is trying to … Continue reading
Decoding American Values
Alliance Theory, as developed by David Pinsof, treats values as tools for building, policing, and advertising alliances. American values read cleanly through that lens. Freedom is alliance exit power. Americans moralize freedom because it keeps coalitions from hardening into inescapable … Continue reading
Decoding The White House
Written with AI: David Pinsof’s Alliance Theory lens: treat the White House less like a “policy machine” and more like an alliance hub where people compete to be the President’s most valuable ally, while avoiding the fate of being tagged … Continue reading
Jonah Goldberg Wants Us To Know Who’s Serious
Jonah Goldberg writes in the LAT: Marco Rubio is the only adult left in the room Finally free from the demands of being Chief Archivist of the United States, Secretary of State, National Security Advisor and unofficial Viceroy of Venezuela, … Continue reading