The Supreme Court’s 1973 decision in Roe v. Wade has divided Americans for almost half a century. Politically, it created a gulf between anti-abortion, socially-conservative Republicans Americans and pro-abortion, socially liberal Democrats Americans, a gulf that has continued to widen. Dialogue between the two does...
Wait for it. You won’t have to read very far. The Cassandra Syndrome is a label applied to a person whose valid warnings are disbelieved by others. It’s a metaphor that has been used in a variety of contexts, one that was first applied during modern...
A number of readers have asked for emailed copies of prior TLRs that are referenced in more recent commentaries or relate to subjects in more recent commentaries. All TLRs (which began in February 2019) are easily accessible on The Lonely Realist website (https://blog.thelonelyrealist.com/) and can...
The election in November of Vice President Biden or the re-election of President Trump will not end America’s partisan divisions … its uncivil war. The Great Partisan Divide will persist. The genie released by change progress a corrosive combination of social media, automation, rising income...
You may have read about Cassandra – the young (and, I should add, quite beautiful) priestess who the Greek god Apollo granted the power to accurately prophesize the future …, and then cursed so that her prophesies would not be believed. TLR spoke with her...
