“The future of education will not be about the 3 Rs.” – The Lonely Realist As TLR previously highlighted, America’s K-12 public education system has been failing, undermined by a combination of budget cuts, misaligned tax incentives, social media addiction, partisan “truthiness,” burgeoning charter-, private- and...
“What does a declining U.S. population portend?” – The Lonely Realist The U.S. Census Bureau recently reported that America’s population for the 12-month period from July 2024 to July 2025 increased by only 1.8 million, or 0.5%...
“How did TLR do?” – The Lonely Realist TLR conveyed its perspective for 2025 shortly after Election Day in “Trumpian Disruptions.” Domestically, TLR predicted that “Donald Trump will transform Federal power by greatly expanding the prerogatives of America’s Executive [in reliance on the ‘unitary executive theory’ articulated...
“Does K-12 public education have a future?” – The Lonely Realist How will artificial intelligence, budget cuts, tax incentives, social media influence, partisan-induced truthiness, and burgeoning charter-, private- and home-schooling affect America’s skill- knowledge-based education system? Whatever the rationale, and as TLR has been highlighting for years...
“It’s paradigm-shifting ‘Trump Change.’” – The Lonely Realist Matt Levine wrote several months ago that “the current economic policy of the United States is apparently to cause maximum chaos by announcing drastic changes in the global economic order in the morning and then walking them back...
“No one needs a weatherman to know which way the wind is blowing.” – TLR Channeling Bob Dylan Transformational change is being wrought by artificial intelligence (AI)…, and there is little to hold it back. Its benefits and burdens soon will be more widely felt. Paradigm-shifts...