“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...
"Not for some time.” – The Lonely Realist What is a “Dalio Moment”? Ray Dalio is a leading proponent of cycle theory. His book, Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order, predicts an unhappy end to the current “Big Cycle,” warning that an unraveling of the...
“Hang on tight for a Supremely wild ride!” – The Lonely Realist With Presidential power subject to increasing legislative and judicial constraints and with Congress deadlocked, a muscular Supreme Court is increasingly tipping the scales … above its Constitutional weight. Those who believe that America’s Rule of...
“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....
“The human condition is improving at an exponential rate.” – The Lonely Realist The human condition has improved more over the last 100 years than it did over the prior 5,000 years. Think about what that means. Then consider that the next 25 years will see...