“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...
“Change has come to America’s democracy.” – The Lonely Realist Arthur Schlesinger’s 1973 book, The Imperial Presidency, concluded that the Constitution provides no real limits on Presidential power. He was right. A 6-3 Supreme Court majority on June 29th in Trump v. Slaughter endorsed the “unitary...
“Modern economies have a love affair with inflation.” – The Lonely Realist For some, inflation is a bad thing. For others, it’s a good thing. Whatever its impact, inflation is a modern fact of life and its future today seems … bright. Inflation generally is viewed as...
“Or a new beginning?” “What is the evolutionary destiny of homo sapiens?” – The Lonely Realist The question of humanity’s future has been the subject of intense philosophical discourse. Some believe they now have the answer. The biblically-inclined have long believed in man’s afterlife, God’s reward for a...
“The only difference between death and taxes is that death doesn’t get worse every time Congress meets.” – Will Rogers The American government is running a $2 trillion annual deficit. Perfunctory efforts at budget cutting, whether by DOGE or the President or Congress or through Federal...
“It’s about ‘Fortress America’…, and much more.” – The Lonely Realist Hypothesis: Both Donald Trump and Xi Jinping understand that the Thucydides Trap would represent a disastrous outcome for each country. President Trump appreciates that a Thucydides outcome would be inevitable should America continue its efforts...