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Category Archives: Rony Guldmann
Rony Guldmann: Philosopher at the Gates
Rony Hugo Guldmann trains as a Continental philosopher. He earns a law degree at Stanford and holds a research fellowship there. He leaves academic life, joins a consumer-protection firm in New York, and keeps publishing philosophical work from outside the … Continue reading
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Rony Guldmann on Hero Systems & Their Competing Claims of Oppression (4-12-26)
01:00 Is the “heritage Americans” construct racist?04:00 Star Chamber of Stanford, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=18147911:00 Conservative Claims of Cultural Oppression, https://ronyguldmann.com/conservative-claims-cultural-oppression/15:00 Rony Guldmann, https://ronyguldmann.com18:00 My writings on Rony Guldmann: https://lukeford.net/blog/?cat=4293322:00 Conservative Claims of Cultural Oppression: On the Nature and Origins of ‘Conservaphobia’, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=181477
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The Star Chamber of Stanford
David Pinsof’s misunderstanding essay applies to Rony Guldmann’s memoir, and in ways that cut against Guldmann more sharply than they do against his faculty antagonists. Start with Stanford Law professor Joe Bankman’s early response to the draft of Conservative Claims … Continue reading
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Conservative Claims of Cultural Oppression: On the Nature and Origins of ‘Conservaphobia’
In his book in progress, author Rony Guldmann’s central argument is that conservative claims of cultural oppression are philosophically serious and that the liberal academy treats conservative grievances as symptoms of psychological deficit rather than as positions worth engaging. Conservatives, … 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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Conservative Claims of Cultural Oppression: On the Nature and Origins of “Conservaphobia”
Conservaphobia creates a pervasive sense of danger for those who hold traditional views. In his book-in-progress Conservative Claims of Cultural Oppression, Rony Guldmann argues that this feeling of being unsafe stems from an institutionalized liberal world view. This view treats … Continue reading
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Conservative Claims of Cultural Oppression: On the Nature and Origins of “Conservaphobia”
I want Rony Guldmann to tune this book up and publish it already! Claude says: The manuscript is serious, ambitious, and often genuinely compelling. It makes a sustained philosophical argument across three parts and ten chapters about the nature of … Continue reading
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Stewards Of Democracy: Law As Public Profession (1999)
Law professor Paul D. Carrington wrote: * American law in the last half-century has been increasingly disdainful of the expressed wishes and expectations of the citizens it purports to serve. * Robert Wiebe, for example, has identified World War II … Continue reading
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Decoding Stanford Law School
Under David Pinsof’s Alliance Theory, Stanford Law School (SLS) is not a neutral training ground for lawyers. It is a certification authority for people who will operate near power while remaining morally insulated from its consequences. SLS sits at a … Continue reading
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The Lost Generation In The Age Of Conservative Claims Of Cultural Oppression
Jacob Savage’s essay “The Lost Generation” argues that a cohort of white male millennials in creative and academic fields (journalism, TV writing, academia) has been systematically “lost”—sacrificed to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) mandates that accelerated around 2014. Savage contends … Continue reading
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