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Category Archives: Power
Paper: Further Back to the Future: Neo-Royalism, the Trump Administration, and the Emerging International System
Mother Jones reports: “Neo-royalism says that the state, the country, is not the key actor,” Abe Newman, a political scientist at Georgetown who co-wrote a paper coining the term, told me. “It’s groups of elites that are organized around political … Continue reading
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NYT: ‘The Three G.O.P. Women Who Broke Trump’s Grip on Congress’
LF: “The MSM loves this idea that Trump is fading. They forget that power is always situational, the situation changes, and one’s power changes.” Gemini: Here are a few ways to think about your statement regarding the situational nature of … 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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Structuralism vs Essentialism
Reality is too much to comprehend. We need theories to make sense of life. To understand the world around us, I believe in the power of structures more than in the power of essences and personalities. Yes, we shape the … Continue reading
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Theories of Power: Perceived Strategies for Gaining and Maintaining Power
Here are some highlights of a recent study noted in the New York Times today: * What does it take to gain and maintain power? Aristotle believed that power was afforded to individuals that acted in virtuous ways that promote … Continue reading
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