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Category Archives: Politics
The Price of Politics: Ian Bremmer and the Making of Political Risk
Ian Arthur Bremmer (b. 1969) is an American political scientist, entrepreneur, and media commentator who built political risk into a recognized field of analysis for global business and government. He founded and presides over Eurasia Group, the largest political risk … Continue reading
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Strange bedfellows: the Alliance Theory of political belief systems
By David Pinsof,* David O. Sears, and Martie G. Haselton Department of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles, United States *[email protected] David Pinsof is a postdoctoral scholar who received his PhD in Psychology from the University of California, Los Angeles … Continue reading
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Dan Turrentine: Fundraiser, Operative, Commentator
Dan Turrentine (b. 1977) is an American Democratic political strategist, fundraiser, corporate government-relations executive, and media commentator. His career runs across campaign finance, technology lobbying, congressional politics, corporate advocacy, and digital political journalism. He came up through fundraising and operations … Continue reading
The Tempered Mind: Mark Lilla and the Containment of Political Theology
Mark Lilla (b. 1956) was born in Detroit, Michigan, the son of working-class Catholic parents. By his own account, he passed through an adolescent evangelical conversion, a long stretch of close Bible reading, and then a return to secular life … Continue reading
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Private vs Public Polls
During the 2024 presidential election campaign, Mark Halperin regularly shared with his audience what he learned from the campaigns’ private polls. Private polls are better funded and far more accurate than public polls. By listening to Halperin, I knew for … Continue reading
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Why do people hate cops and who do cops hate?
ChatGPT says: Alliance Theory frames this as mutual threat perception between two coalitions that routinely impose costs on each other while denying hostile intent. This is descriptive, not justificatory. Why many people hate cops. Cops as direct fitness suppressors Police … Continue reading
Which Common Political Beliefs Signal Hatred Of Opponents?
Written with help from Grok/Chat GPT/Gemini: Beliefs that frame political opponents as existential threats to one’s group, values, or way of life foster intense negative emotions, including hatred, as they activate perceptions of others as “toxic” individuals or groups whose … Continue reading
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The Concept Of The Political
In his foreword to the 2007 edition of Carl Schmitt’s 1932 book The Concept of the Political, philosopher Tracy B. Strong writes: “Schmitt claimed that liberalism’s reliance on procedure led to a depoliticization and dehumanization of the world.” If you … Continue reading
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The Myth of Left and Right: How the Political Spectrum Misleads and Harms America
The authors write in this 2023 book: We challenge the static, “essentialist” conception of ideology that currently dominates public and academic discourse alike, and instead propose a “social” conception in which the political spectrum and the ideological terms associated with … Continue reading
The Myth of Left and Right: How the Political Spectrum Misleads and Harms America
Amazon says about this 2023 book: “As American politics descends into a battle of anger and hostility between two groups called “left” and “right,” people increasingly ask: What is the essential difference between these two ideological groups? In The Myth … Continue reading
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