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Category Archives: Stephen Turner
AI and its Enemies
In his 2013 paper, The blogosphere and its enemies: the case of oophorectomy, Stephen Turner noted: The blogosphere is loathed and feared by the press, expert-opinion makers, and representatives of authority generally. Part of this is based on a social … Continue reading
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Stephen Turner’s Unfinished Work: Gaps, Needed Boldness, and a Freer Intellectual Trajectory
Stephen Turner’s reconstruction of democratic theory begins as an act of intellectual hygiene. Strip away the myths. Discard the will of the people, justice, and the rule of law as normative ideals. What remains is procedure. Law is a hierarchy … Continue reading
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Stephen Turner’s Work on Hans Kelsen: Demystifying Realism, Proceduralism, and the Rule of Law in Democratic Theory
Stephen Turner’s revival of Hans Kelsen looks like intellectual housekeeping. Strip away the romance of democracy. Stop invoking the will of the people. Recognize that the rule of law carries no inherent moral content. What remains is procedure: law as … Continue reading
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Stephen P. Turner – The Philosopher of the Unstated
Stephen Park Turner was born in 1951 and grew up on the South Side of Chicago during a period of rapid racial succession, then in Miami at what he calls the edge of change. His father was a businessman whose … Continue reading
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‘The ideological orientation of academic social science research 1960–2024’
James Manzi does something deceptively simple in his new paper. He stops asking who professors are and starts asking what the university produces. By coding roughly 600,000 English-language social science abstracts published between 1960 and 2024 against a fixed 2025 … Continue reading
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Academic Life as a Mad Hazard: Contingency, Selection, and the Illusion of Merit
Academic life is a mad hazard. Stephen Turner is not being colorful. He is stating a structural fact. Careers, ideas, and entire disciplines develop under conditions where outcomes depend on timing, networks, institutional moods, and small accidents that could easily … Continue reading
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The Plumber Standard: Stephen Turner, Habermas, and the Limits of Expert Authority
Stephen Turner’s critique of Jürgen Habermas cuts to the heart of how we understand knowledge, expertise, and democratic life. Habermas argues that expert cultures make genuine democratic discussion impossible. He sees experts as hidden policymakers who operate behind a wall … Continue reading
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Gurri’s Avalanche Has No Blueprint
Martin Gurri’s column arrives like the Category 5 hurricane he invokes. The post-Cold War rules-based order was never rules or order, he argues. It was a polite fiction masking American decline and elite self-preservation. Trump has torn the fiction away. … Continue reading
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The Three Layers: Stephen Turner, Tacit Knowledge, and the War in Iran
Stephen P. Turner spent his career arguing against a comfortable assumption in the social sciences: that knowledge is a thing people possess, store, and transfer. His critique of practice theory cuts deeper than most readers realize. Knowledge is not a … Continue reading
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The Jurisdictional Wars: Alliance Theory and the Battle to Claim Expertise in America
No one says they want to be an expert because it gives them power. They say they follow the evidence, protect the public, or translate complexity for those who cannot navigate it alone. That is the move. Expertise is a … Continue reading
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