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- The Pervert’s Progress: Costin Vlad Alamariu and the Making of Bronze Age Pervert
- Curtis Yarvin: A Life Against Democracy
- Mark Helprin: Against the Current
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- John T. Jost: The Psychologist of Acquiescence
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- Tournier on Desmond Ford
- The Fence and the Blessing: How Jews Have Thought About Gentiles
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- An Alliance Theory of Antisemitism
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- The Self-Hating Jew
- The Alliance Theory in the Academy
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* Steve Wynn and the Press: Power, Litigation, and the Contest Over Las Vegas (6-3-26)
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Category Archives: Adventist
Decoding The Death of Azaria Chamberlain
ChatGPT says: Through David Pinsof’s Alliance Theory, the death of Azaria Chamberlain becomes a case study in how moral coalitions override evidence, how outsiders are punished to restore social order, and how innocence can be crushed when a family sits … Continue reading
Decoding The Bowels
I grew up a Seventh-Day Adventist. This culture has a big emphasis on preventative health. I remember some of the more ardent Adventists I knew were into enemas and the bowels and friendly chats about whether your toilet bowl showed … Continue reading
The Nostradamus Kid
I love this 1992 movie about growing up Seventh-Day Adventist in Australia. I also love Alliance Theory! Let’s go. Alliance Theory treats belief systems as coalition tools, not moral philosophies. Political, religious, and existential claims function as strategic narratives that … Continue reading
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The Rise & Fall Of Desmond Ford
ChatGPT says: Alliance Theory would interpret the history of Seventh-day Adventism and your father, Desmond Ford’s trajectory as the story of an alliance system that initially built a strong in-group coalition and later fractured over boundary definitions and rival maps. … Continue reading
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The Nostramus Kid
I loved this 1993 movie about growing up Adventist in Australia. John Gowlett posts to my YT comments: Although I was brought up in The Salvation Army, which makes an appearance in the finals scenes of The Nostradamus Kid, as … Continue reading
Posted in Adventist, Noah Feldman
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NYT: Secret Synagogue Tunnel Sets Off Altercation That Leads to 9 Arrests
Most of the time that religion is in the news, it looks terrible. This is one of those times. The New York Times reports: A decades-old fight about the direction of one of New York’s most prominent Hasidic Jewish groups … Continue reading
Populism, Neoconservatism & Lessons in the Application of Power
I’m a simple man who likes simple things like truth. Here is one truth as I see it — populism is usually popular but rarely gets anything done, while neoconservatism is unpopular but gets much accomplished (such as the disastrous … Continue reading
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An Amazonian Exodus
From the New York Review of Books: By the Israeli law of return, all Jews have the right to move to Israel and attain citizenship. The law was designed for those with at least one Jewish grandparent, and others have … Continue reading
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Religion in Secular Society: Fifty Years On
Here are some excerpts from the updated 2016 edition: * Bryan Ronald Wilson came from unusually humble origins. He was born in 1926 in a working-class terrace in Leeds. The house had no running hot water, and the communal toilet, … Continue reading
From Adventism To Judaism
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