“The foundations of Conservatism continue to crumble.” – The Lonely Realist Being a Conservative in 2023 does not have the same meaning as being a Conservative in the 1980s … or even as recently as in 2015 (when the Freedom Caucus was founded). Classical American Conservativism...
“Should Big Tech be under government control? No.” – The Lonely Realist Everyone has grievances against Big Tech. Author Scott Galloway lists multiple ways in which the Biggest Techs – Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google – harm society … by destroying jobs; prioritizing profit over privacy,...
“Predictions of a ‘soft landing’ and ‘Immaculate Disinflation’ are misguided.” – The Oracle Headlines trumpeting a “soft landing” for America’s economy led TLR to renew a conversation with Apollo’s favorite, the Delphic Oracle who, during a 2022 interview with TLR, took a dim view of the Federal...
“America’s national interest requires Ukraine to be a bipartisan bridge.” – The Lonely Realist After America’s calamitous withdrawal from Afghanistan in the Summer of 2021, TLR wrote that “America is war-weary. Its three most recent Presidents – Obama, Trump and Biden – have made military withdrawal...
“Your choice!” – The Lonely Realist Conflict or compromise is the choice facing Americans today. Oh, that also is the choice facing China and America. “We are in a period of clamor, of bewilderment, of an almost tremulous unrest.” If this resonates as a description of today’s...