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- The Second Collapse: Twenty Years of Luke Ford’s Publication Threshold, Measured
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Category Archives: Ben Shapiro
The Ben Shapiro Show
Ben Shapiro (b. 1980) speaks fast. That is the first thing anyone notices. He runs through clauses at a clip that leaves listeners and opponents a half-step behind, and the speed does work for him. It signals fluency. It also … Continue reading
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WP: As MAGA embraces Erika Kirk, Candace Owens goes on the attack
The Washington Post reports: “The right-wing influencer launched a video series about Charlie Kirk’s widow that is provoking outrage among conservatives — and raising Owens’s profile.” David Pinsof’s Alliance Theory suggests that human morality and social behavior are not about … Continue reading
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Ben Shapiro: ‘Modern Orthodoxy’s Moral Failure’
Ben Shapiro writes in 2022: What, then, should the Modern Orthodox do? First, we ought to stop relying on institutions as reliable moral guideposts, absent verification of their values. If those institutions are willing to sell out the long-term values … Continue reading
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Decoding Rabbi Joseph Telushkin
Written with AI: Rabbi Joseph Telushkin is a norm translator and moral ambassador rather than a boundary enforcer or institutional governor. Telushkin’s power does not come from controlling entry, legitimacy, or halachic process. It comes from shaping how Jews explain … Continue reading
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How does Alliance Theory explain Ben Shapiro’s career?
ChatGPT says: Alliance Theory would read Ben Shapiro’s career as the successful construction of a high-status bridge node between two conservative alliance systems that usually distrust each other: the populist mass right and the professional, credentialed elite right. His early … Continue reading
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The Daily Wire Optimized For A World That’s Vanished
The Ben Shapiro empire is still big, well funded, and efficient, but it is struggling to shape the direction of the right. The problem isn’t that Ben Shapiro lost skill or intelligence. It’s that the movement no longer runs on … Continue reading
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The Charisma Wars: Fuentes, Tucker and Shapiro in a Post-Liberal, Post-Christian America (11-23-25)
01:00 Why So Much Positive Coverage Of Dick Cheney Last Week? https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=16508703:40 Hal Brands on US-China 2026, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DfTpN6nLEo006:00 I Like This Trump Peace Plan For Ukraine, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=16506318:00 Porn Stars & The Rootless Elite, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=16506645:00 Rony Guldmann Revisits Liberal Fascism, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=16505259:00 … Continue reading
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Nick Fuentes, Ben Shapiro, Tucker Carlson & The Campy New Grub Street
Tim Page writes in the WSJ Nov. 14: By the late-19th century, “Grub Street” had become a generic term for ambitious, worldly—and mostly talentless—writers, everything the classicist Gissing abhorred. His pessimism was fully formed by then: The hero, a gifted … Continue reading
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Decoding Power
01:00 Decoding Power, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=16482602:20 Comic Sarah Cooper: Dating at Work, Coming Out as Black, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_IqQxfUqpWQ14:00 Nobody Wants This, https://www.imdb.com/title/tt26933824/50:00 Descriptive vs Normative, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=1648671:04:40 The Sanity Interview: Heather Mac Donald, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4DSZS7K4BI1:11:00 Carl Schmitt’s top ten quotes on power 1:32:00 Trumpcare Should … Continue reading
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The Age Of Fuentes (11-9-25)
01:00 I don’t want to talk about Nick Fuentes, but I accept the reality that we live in the Age of Fuentes.05:00 Ben Shapiro: Tucker Carlson Sabotages America, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=16477207:00 Death By Lightning Is The Latest Example of Hollywood’s ‘Magic Negro’ … Continue reading
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