The First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution precludes the government from abridging Americans’ right to speak freely. By guaranteeing a broadly protected – and uniquely American – freedom of speech, the Constitution provides an essential base upon which America’s democratic society has thrived through the...
I first fell in love with TINA in 2009. It was early Spring and I’d been hurt, pretty badly, in 2008. That had followed the break-up of a serious relationship with Value that had topped out in October 2007. My personal affair with TINA began...
The Supreme Court’s 1973 decision in Roe v. Wade has divided Americans for almost half a century. Politically, it created a gulf between anti-abortion, socially-conservative Republicans Americans and pro-abortion, socially liberal Democrats Americans, a gulf that has continued to widen. Dialogue between the two does...
Wait for it. You won’t have to read very far. The Cassandra Syndrome is a label applied to a person whose valid warnings are disbelieved by others. It’s a metaphor that has been used in a variety of contexts, one that was first applied during modern...
A number of readers have asked for emailed copies of prior TLRs that are referenced in more recent commentaries or relate to subjects in more recent commentaries. All TLRs (which began in February 2019) are easily accessible on The Lonely Realist website (https://blog.thelonelyrealist.com/) and can...