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Category Archives: Stephen Turner
Bombshell Russiagate Docs Explained, and Truth About Putin and Hillary, w/ Matt Taibbi and Ruthless
Stephen Turner’s Tools Applied: The New Russiagate Files Source: Megyn Kelly Show – July 24, 2025 1. Epistemic Coercion and Brennan’s Testimony At 03:50–05:10, Matt Taibbi explains how John Brennan allegedly misrepresented the Steele Dossier’s credibility during 2017 congressional testimony. … Continue reading
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How Tulsi Gabbard’s Revelations About The Obama Administration’s Abuse Of Intelligence Decodes The Rule Of Experts
I use the philosophy of Stephen Park Turner to decode the news: 1. Expert Rule Over Democracy – Turner argues liberal democracies are increasingly run by expert commissions (like intel agencies) that operate outside democratic oversight. This makes them politically … Continue reading
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Liberal Democracy 3.0: My Society in an Age of Experts
I wrote this with ChatGPT, Grok and Gemini: 1. Stephen Turner says we’ve shifted from democracy to expertocracy. I’m like—great! I’m perfectly unqualified. I can’t even program my remote. But I’ve got feelings, damn it. And some of them are … Continue reading
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Epistemic Coercion
Stephen Turner writes in Epistemology & Philosophy of Science, 2024, vol. 61, no. 3: “Words such as state, republic, society, class, as well as sovereignty, constitutional state, absolutism, dictatorship, economic planning, neutral or total state, and so on are incomprehensible … Continue reading
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Max Weber and the Two Universities
Professor Stephen P. Turner published in January 2024: No sooner than the ink had begun to dry (or should we say the pixels stopped changing) on the publications written to celebrate the centennial of Weber’s ‘Science as a Profession and … Continue reading
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Danielle Allen: Justice By Means of Democracy
Stephen Turner writes: Works from Harvard in political theory have a special sociological interest because they come from a center of power and indicate the probable rationale for where the elite are next taking the government. The last 50 years … Continue reading
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When The Powerful Steal From The Less Powerful
Philosopher Stephen Turner writes on Facebook: “So now there is a threat of using AI to escalate the plagiarism wars and out the offenders. It is an interesting dynamic. But I suspect it will be blunted by confusion over the … Continue reading
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Elites & Democracy
Stephen Turner writes a chapter called “Carl Friedrich and the Cancellation of Pareto” in the 2023 book, Vilfredo Pareto’s Contributions to Modern Social Theory: A Centennial Appraisal: * What makes Friedrich of special interest is not only the texts but … Continue reading
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Expertise in Complex Organizations
Stephen Turner writes in the 2023 book, The Oxford Handbook of Expertise and Democratic Politics: Science is sometimes thought to be a self – correcting system: replication and the fact that other scientists must rely on the previous and related … Continue reading
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Philosopher Stephen Turner Is On Facebook
Follow him here. He posts July 7, 2023: …the 4th circuit just struck a blow against academic freedom, citing a famous case which involved a person in the LA prosecutors office telling the truth about a case the prosecutor was … Continue reading
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