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Category Archives: Alliance Theory
Alliance Theory & The Custodianship Question
Custodianship Question in America Australia, New Zealand Europe Asia Canada, Latin America, Africa Different groups may have different interests, but all groups want custody of their own sacred stories. After Jews consolidated their position in the American History profession in … Continue reading
Posted in Alliance Theory, English, History, Leo Strauss, Paul Gottfried, Susanne Klingenstein
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Voter Fraud
Advocates of wide-scale voter fraud in American elections ask how can you even identify voter fraud, let alone prosecute it? It seems to me you would pursue and prosecute voter fraud the same way you would other kinds of fraud. … Continue reading
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The Jurisdictional Wars: Alliance Theory and the Struggle for Authority Across American Movements
No one in any of these worlds says he wants power. The acting teacher says he serves the work. The Christian nationalist says he defends biblical truth. The dissident streamer says he tells the truth others fear to speak. The … Continue reading
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The Jurisdictional Wars: Status Competition and Authority Struggles Inside American White Nationalism
American white nationalist actors do not compete for authority by openly saying they want power. They compete by invoking moral languages that present their claims as fidelity, realism, discipline, faith, or survival. This is the core insight of David Pinsof’s … Continue reading
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The Jurisdictional Wars: Alliance Theory and the Battle for Power in the History and Practice of International Humanitarian Law
Nobody in international humanitarian law says they want power over the definition of legitimate violence. They say they protect the vulnerable, humanize war, or fill gaps in the law. That is the move. Interpretive authority is a status claim wrapped … Continue reading
Posted in Alliance Theory, Amanda Alexander, Human Rights, International Law, International Relations
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The Cofnas Affair and the Logic of Coalition Enforcement
The controversy surrounding philosopher Nathan Cofnas (his Substack, X) has now followed him across two countries, five petitions, and nearly a decade of escalating institutional pressure. At Cambridge, students marched through campus chanting for his removal and posted flyers with … Continue reading
Posted in Alliance Theory, Amy Wax, Blacks, IQ, Nathan Cofnas
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Moral Universalism v Alliance Theory
Enke, Rodríguez-Padilla, and Zimmermann argue that moral universalism, the degree to which a person extends the same altruism and trust to strangers as to in-group members, predicts an entire vector of policy views across five Western democracies with remarkable consistency. … Continue reading
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NYT: Entering War’s Third Week, Trump Faces Stark Choices
The NYT piece frames the Iran war as a strategic puzzle with two bad options: fight on toward goals that keep receding, or declare victory and leave with the job half done. That framing is accurate as far as it … Continue reading
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Decoding Trump’s Rhetoric About The Iran War
Donald Trump has not really been speaking with one voice. He has been speaking to five audiences at once. What looks like incoherence is mostly coalition management per David Pinsof’s Alliance Theory. In February 2025, Trump restored “maximum pressure” on … Continue reading
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Why do elites love the word ‘dialogue’?
“Dialogue” is one of the favorite prestige words of the diplomatic and intellectual class because it performs several alliance functions at once. First, it signals civility and moral elevation. Saying “we need dialogue” places the speaker on the side of … Continue reading
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