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Category Archives: Stephen Turner
The Politics of Essence: Vermeule, the IRGC, and the CCP
Stephen Turner’s deepest objection to Adrian Vermeule is not political or theological. It is epistemological. Vermeule’s common-good constitutionalism rests on an essentialist premise: that the classical legal and natural law tradition carries a determinate moral content across time, that this … Continue reading
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Stephen Turner and International Relations: A Strategically External Observer
There is no Turner school of International Relations in any conventional sense, and Turner himself would probably find the idea faintly amusing. His entry into IR was, by his own account in his 2022 memoir Mad Hazard: A Life in … Continue reading
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When the Epistemology Collapses: Stephen Park Turner and the Post-Liberal Catholic Project
There is no famous direct encounter between the sociologist Stephen P. Turner and the Harvard law professor Adrian Vermeule. They operate in different institutional worlds and have rarely, if ever, addressed each other by name. Turner works in the philosophy … Continue reading
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The Jurisdictional Wars: Alliance Theory and the Battle to Define Legitimate Power in the Trump Presidency
Thomas Edsall writes in the New York Times: Trump’s Smash-and-Grab Presidency Reaches New Heights Moynihan agreed that “there are significant strategic motivations for the U.S. military action” against Iran. But for Trump, “the key point seems to be the impulsiveness, … Continue reading
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Decoding Rabbi Isadore Twersky
Per Alliance Theory: Rabbi Isadore Twersky was the architect of the high-level intellectual ceasefire. He rejected the idea that a scholar must choose between the “sacred” world of the yeshiva and the “profane” world of the university. He argued that … Continue reading
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Global Warming
Gemini says: Stephen Park Turner explores global warming primarily through the lens of social theory and the politics of expertise rather than as a climate scientist. His work focuses on how the debate over climate change illustrates the challenges of … Continue reading
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The Stephen Park Turner Trajectory
ChatGPT says: Alliance Theory would read Stephen Park Turner’s career as that of an institutional outsider who steadily built epistemic authority rather than coalitional power. Here are the core points in plain terms: Turner is, by training and temperament, a … Continue reading
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Challenges To Academic Freedom
Stephen Turner writes in this 2021 book: The present legal system produces an unequal conflict between academic freedom, which has only the most fragile and indirect legal basis, and employment law. The latter is backed by administrative law, which, in … Continue reading
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Our System Often Rewards BS Rather Than Truth
Columbia University statistics professor Andrew Gelman blogs (here is my collection of his related posts): Last year we discussed the problem of scientists who host podcasts in which they credulously and uncritically interview celebrity scientists who are promoting junk science. … Continue reading
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‘Lies and D.C. Crime Statistics’
Kimberly Strassel writes for the WSJ: No one should be surprised if investigations show evidence of manipulation, as “downgrading” is nothing new in police departments. A New York Times story from more than a decade ago reported on an anonymous … Continue reading
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