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...
What is “war”? When can it be said that a nation is “at war”? Contrary to conventional wisdom, war and its definition are not static. Like societies, “war” evolves with the times … and with technological progress advancements. It has changed markedly over the last two...
in “The Big Blue Cities,” TLR discussed how polarization in America resulted in a geographical Great Bifurcation, contrasting the social, political, economic and aspirational goals of city-dwellers – those living in Big Blue Democratic Cities (including New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Washington, D.C., Atlanta, Miami, Chicago,...
The Federal government is giving away money to bailing out America’s airlines. With Covid-19 ravaging airlines’ bottom lines, many believe this to be appropriate, an economically-wise decision. It isn’t. There are terribly consequential choices that governments have to make in order to ensure the well-being of their...
Historians eagerly highlight the foreign policy strategies pursued by the overtly hawkish Reagan Administration, a strategy of “peace through strength.” As described in “Speak Softly and Carry a Big Stick” in the March 27, 2019 TLR, Reagan adopted a set of muscular U.S. policies that...
