“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...
“Eventually, every stalemate ends.” – The Lonely Realist In his speech at the 1936 Democratic National Convention, at the height of the 20th Century’s philosophical and political clash between democracy and its domestic and international fascist and communist alternatives, President Roosevelt went all-in on American democracy....