Free Thinking Through the Fourth Turning with Sasha Stone
Episodes
A Fourth Turning Conversation with Andy Schaalman
27 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
As promised, my conversation with my friend Andy Schaalman who has a Substack called Fourth Turning Chronicles but does most of his work on his YouTub...
There is No Saving the Left
27 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
I left the Democratic Party in 2020 because I couldn’t take it anymore. I am not sure what triggered my disgust, but all I know is that I could not ...
Eric Swalwell Flew Too Close to the Sun
18 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Eric Swalwell’s gubernatorial campaign was a ticking time bomb, and the Democrats knew it. They’ve denied it, but come on, are we really supposed ...
Close Encounters of the Totalitarian Kind
08 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
—Jacob Siegel, the Information State, excerpts from audiobook, which can be found here.Totalitarianism came to America slowly at first and then all ...
The Cruel Irony of "No Kings" For the Women of Iran
29 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Imagine being an Iranian right now, especially an Iranian woman, as hundreds of thousands of American women gather to exercise their freedom in a free...
How Do You Measure the Happiness of a Dog?
21 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
I stood in the corner of our tiny shack atop a mountain in Topanga and waited for my brother to come home. He would be there any minute and would see ...
Why I'm Sticking with Trump
11 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
I didn’t use to be a Trump voter, much less a Trump supporter. I can’t say I’m hard-core MAGA or what they call a “Triple Trump voter.” But ...
Candace Owens: A Disney Villain of Her Own Making
05 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
The Disney movies I grew up with made it easy for a kid like me to recognize good vs. evil. We knew, walking in the door, that goodness would prevail...
Dems Are Behaving Like Spoiled Brats by Boycotting State of the Union
22 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
For the last five years, since I left the Democratic Party, I’ve been waiting for any sign that they’ve emerged from the Doomsday Bunker at long l...
Ten Years of the Democrats Calling Trump a Racist
20 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
When Karoline Leavitt was asked about whether Trump believes he’s been falsely called a racist, she quipped, “You’re kidding, right?” I though...
NYT's Big Lie: A "Woman" Did Not Commit Mass Murder in Canada
16 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In 1984, George Orwell wrote, “Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.”The New York Times...
A Requiem for America This Week
11 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
The novel for the week was Brave New World. Matt Taibbi and Walter Kirn were preparing to lead us through it. It was more disturbing and more timely t...
Why I Will Never Regret My Vote for Trump
08 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
After Memegate went viral on Friday, the usual battle in our virtual Civil War raged on. I had this exchange on X and was answered by Conor Friedersdo...
The Fourth Turning Podcast
02 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, I talk to my friend Andy Schaalman, who has Substack, Fourth Turning Chronicles but whose work can be found mostly on his YouTube pag...
Oh Hillary, Empathy? Really? Please.
30 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Dear Hillary,Imagine my shock when I saw you wrote an op-ed in The Atlantic. Before I even read a line, I knew what the point of the article would be ...
Why the Democrats Fail in the Art of War
28 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Part One | Part Two | Part Three“If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself bu...
An Open Letter to Peter Baker of the New York Times
17 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Dear Mr. Baker,I am, but one in a sea of many Americans viewed as a threat to the established order. I was once a part of that order. I helped build i...
Confessions of a Recovering Liberal White Woman
14 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
You’ve heard of the Great Awokening and the Great Feminization. Now meet the Great Crack-Up of 2026. Grown women, Liberal white women, losing their ...
January 6th and The Real Insurrection
05 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Part One | Part Two January 6th was terrifying for many Americans. After all, they saw it on television. But what did they really see? Did they know w...
Vanity Fair and the Incurably Ugly Left
20 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Democrats have never been less popular than they are right now. They are suffering from many of the same problems that are causing Hollywood to co...
Candace Owens and The "Non-Stop Hate Binge"
15 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
I have angels in my comment section who report when commenters lose their cool and fly off the handle at me. Most of the time, I delete them. Sometime...
Why The Democrats Can't Keep America Safe
12 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Route 66 will turn 100 next year. It slithers along I-40 as a road that almost didn’t think it needed to be there. So much of roadside America vanis...
Netflix and the WB Just Killed Off Movie Theaters
06 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The deal is done. Netflix will purchase Warner Bros. Discovery for $82 billion. Yet another corporate monopoly drives a nail through Hollywood’s cof...
Erika Kirk and The Wicked Witches of the Left
02 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
They might look like ordinary women as they Instacart from Bristol Farms or strengthen their core at morning pilates. You might be standing behind the...
How Dare We Speak Happy Thanksgiving!
26 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
I remember when Generation Woke decided to take Thanksgiving. The narrative fit right into the oppressed/oppressor mindset. America was a rotten, fet...
Barack Obama and the "Bitter Clingers"
16 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
When I look around at the crumbling empire I helped build, I wonder how it all went so wrong. How did so many people lose their minds, the legacy medi...
Totalitarians at the Gate
07 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
For a brief moment in time, the Democrats were humiliated in defeat. November of 2024 was the body blow necessary to end the war on Trump. They lost. ...
Janet's "No Kings" Halloween
03 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
[I meant to get this out before Halloween, but life got in the way — previous Janet stories — Part One | Part Two ]Janet left Two Moons Yoga Studi...
No Country for Old Media: The Shameful Blackout on Arctic Frost
31 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
When the hilarious clips of Katie Porter losing her temper went viral, I thought What a great skit that would make on Saturday Night Live. Would they ...
Meet the Socialist Socialites
30 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
I imagine right about now, the group chats between Hillary Clinton, Neera Tanden, and Huma Abedin are lit. Democratic Socialism is at the gates. Once ...
Did The Great Feminization Cause The Great Awokening?
26 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Somehow, I missed this story that appeared in Compact Magazine by Helen Andrews, The Great Feminization.” In it, she writes:Cancel culture is simply...
The Democrats Have a Nazi Problem
24 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Democrats are involved in their own cover-up. They’re covering up for a Nazi. How could they! All they’ve done for ten years is scream about N...
No Kings: The Lunatics Are Running The Asylum
18 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
“If the rule you are following has led you to this, of what use was the rule?””Do you have any idea how crazy you are?””You mean the nature ...
Donald The Great
16 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Heroes are in short supply in America at a time when we need them the most. Hollywood can’t deliver them anymore, that’s for sure. They are too a...
How the Democrats Became the Party of Hate
11 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
I’ve been hated by the Party of Hate for five years and counting, maybe longer. For a while, I tricked myself into thinking it was people who didn’...
The Only Thing Charlie Kirk and George Floyd Shared Was a Birthday
05 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
George Floyd was born on October 14th, 1973. Charlie Kirk was born twenty years later, on October 14th, 1993. That is an odd coincidence, a cosmic jo...
Assassination Nation
26 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
They came out, all of them, like Lady Macbeth, crying, “Out, damn spot,” anything to distance themselves from the words of Tyler Robinson to his l...
It Is AOC Who is "Uneducated" and "Ignorant" About Charlie Kirk
21 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
If Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez plans to run for president in 2028, she’s just made the biggest mistake of her political career. That speech of hers wil...
It's Too Late to Cry "Cancel Culture"
15 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
It’s funny that they all suddenly care about censorship, free speech, and cancel culture, isn’t it? And the chilling effects that had on open exp...
The Left Red-Pills America...
12 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The death of Charlie Kirk and the reaction to it have shaken millions of Americans, at least those who have managed to hold on to their humanity in th...
The Girl on the Train
09 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
After a shift at Zepeddie's Pizzeria in Charlotte, North Carolina, Iryna Zarutska boarded the train and quickly made a decision where to sit. Did she ...
Podcast: Mamdani, Obama's Legacy, and Where This Fourth Turning is Going
07 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In anticipation of a Fourth Turning series for paid subscribers, my friend Andy just posted our conversation about the Fourth Turning and various othe...
Bari Weiss and The Substack Revolution
05 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Everything changed for me in early June of 2020, when the Tom Cotton essay appeared in the New York Times and all hell broke loose on Twitter. I was s...
Trump Derangement Syndrome: The Movie
01 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Part One | Part TwoI didn’t just leave the Democratic Party. I ran screaming from them. On Friday night, I was reminded once again why.The news hit ...
The Gun Control Lie I Once Believed In
29 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
As a lifelong Democrat, I always thought the problem of gun violence was easy to solve. Just get rid of the guns. It was one of the most important iss...
First, They Came for The Smithsonian...
24 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Before the fascists came, America was finally on the right track. As the saying goes, when you have them by the balls, their hearts and minds will fol...
Gavin Newsom Doesn't Want to Beat Trump--He Wants to BE Trump
20 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
When I was struggling in my 20s, I would receive a $50 check from my dad every week. It would come from Gene Stone’s Janitorial Service. He’s dead...
The Democrats at the Abyss
15 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Nobody would discuss how strange everything became on the Left after Trump won the first time. But here’s the truth: We went stark raving bonkers, e...
The Democrats are Trapped in a Hell of Their Own Making
06 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
I sometimes wonder what it must be like at bedtime for the New York Times’ Peter Baker and his wife, The New Yorker’s Susan Glasser. Do they worry...
Sydney Sweeney Harpoons the Woke
30 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A few years ago, if Sydney Sweeney had appeared in an American Eagle ad talking about her “good jeans/genes,” the uproar would have been just as d...
Confessions of a Russiagate True Believer
28 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In their 10-year coup to spy on, discredit, impeach, and unseat the twice-elected President of the United States, Donald Trump, the Democrats have onl...
An Open Letter to the CEO of NPR, Katherine Maher
20 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Dear Ms. Maher,You don’t know me, and there is no reason why you should. I am mostly a nobody. If people know me at all, they know me as a former Os...
The Epstein Files Are a Gift to the Democrats
17 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
It was a story that moved like wildfire and showed no signs of slowing down. The more Hillary Clinton denied it, downplayed it, and attempted to pivot...
The Day I Called Trump "My President"
13 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Some say Trump won a second term one year ago today when his head was almost blown off on live television. Maybe that’s true. Maybe it isn’t. Luc...
Violence is the Last Stop for Democrats
10 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Violence is in the air after Luigi Mangione assassinated CEO Brian Thompson and became a hero of the Left. It’s in the air by politicians who now wa...
A Virtual Civil War on America's Birthday
04 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
I remember the exact moment when I realized I loved my country. The year was 1997. The place was Italy. The affliction was love. The guy had a Che Gue...
The Democratic Party Has Fallen
30 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Zohran Mamdani’s primary win marks the end of the Democratic Party as we once knew it. Maybe they realize it, probably they don’t, but it makes no...
In Top Gun Maverick They Picked the Girl. For Midnight Hammer, They Picked the Best.
23 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
After the bombs dropped on Iran’s nuclear facilities, there were some rumblings on X that the mission felt eerily familiar. Mike Benz said Operation...
A Christian Conservative SCOTUS Was Once My Greatest Fear
20 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
I once believed that the worst thing that could happen to this country was to have a Conservative Supreme Court. That was supposed to be the end of ev...
Welcome to the Fourth Turning Report - The Great War Edition
18 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
[This is a slightly different kind of podcast, a news summary - and will have its own podcast feed eventually]Every Fourth Turning, at least since the...
Happy Birthday, Mr. President
14 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In the Fall of 2021, Donald Trump was selling a hardcover book about his presidency called Our Journey Together. It would be self-published because it...
The Real Handmaids of the Woke Left
10 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
“All you have to do, I tell myself, is keep your mouth shut and look stupid. It shouldn't be that hard.” - Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale....
Original Sin and the Party of Creeps
25 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
I wasn’t sure I’d be able to finish the Jake Tapper/Alex Thompson book, Original Sin. I downloaded the audiobook, narrated by Tapper, to listen to...
All the President's Media
17 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson writing an exposé of the conspiracy and cover-up to hide Joe Biden's cognitive decline is like the Watergate burglars w...
The Democrats Can't Outrun the Woke
13 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Whatever it is we did to kids that started around 2013 has led to whole generations of freaked-out, delusional cult members who can barely function no...
The Last Spectacular Ball of the Elite's Empire
06 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
“The last spectacular ball in the history of the empire ... [but] a new and hostile Russia glared through the large windows of the palace ... while ...
What Kamala Harris Gets Wrong About Elephants
02 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Kamala Harris might have many gifts, but intelligence is not one of them. How else to explain her speech, where she compared today’s Left to a herd ...
Why the Democrats Will (try to) Impeach Trump a Third Time
01 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.”―George Orwell,1984It isn’t that...
There's No Such Thing as a "Sane" Democrat
22 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The rage and hysteria are escalating. They’re openly calling for Trump’s assassination.They’re marching, they’re protesting, they’re screami...
A Good Friday Special: Interview with Poet Joseph Massey + Giveaway
18 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
I have known Joseph Massey For quite some time now, we have always wanted to do an interview, but we never made it happen for one reason or another. N...
Ashley St Clair Went In With Eyes Open
16 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Wall Street Journal has dropped a hit piece on Elon Musk. Their headline suggests Elon Musk is farming out his seed and growing crops for a super-...
How The Media's Elitism Cost Them Their Credibility
12 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
I listened with an open mind to this illuminating interview between Bari Weiss at the Free Press and Jim VandeHei and Mike Allen, two of the founders ...
The Worst Thing to Happen to Democrats is Democracy
07 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The worst thing that’s ever happened to the Democrats is democracy.It must be quite an existential crisis that, after all that, the rest of the coun...
All Things Not Considered
30 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Like everyone else on the Left, I grew up wanting to exist in the rarified air of NPR. It was, to me, like the green light at the end of Daisy’s doc...
[Listen] The New York Times Profiles Me
26 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Many of you have asked me to post the New York Times profile because you don’t have access to it, but I think that might violate copyright laws. So,...
[Watch] How the Left Became so Intolerant
24 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
I posted this story already, but I thought you might like a video version. The audio will go out on the podcast feed. You can find the text here. Thi...
Here Comes the Pitch for Socialism
21 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
I have a soft spot for the Dirtbag Left now that I never used to have. Listening to them viciously destroy the Democratic Party scratches that itch. T...
The Democrats Should Embrace Their Inner Fascist.
20 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
As SpaceX and NASA elegantly brought Crew-9 down from outer space to splash into the waters of the Gulf of America, with dolphins cresting the surface...
Who Killed the Democratic Party?
12 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
After my story Who Killed the Oscars was published in Tablet, I received this letter:Indeed, I didn’t explain why I voted for Trump in the Tablet pi...
I Thought Hamilton Was for America. I Was Wrong.
07 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In May 2016, I surprised my daughter for her 18th birthday with a getaway to New York City to see her favorite play, Hamilton, in the Richard Rogers T...
Zelensky Believed His Own Publicity
03 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
It’s Oscar Sunday, a ceremony fueled by one thing: publicity. We turn ordinary people into gods and goddesses by telling flattering myths about who ...
Three Petty Tyrants Walk Into a Bar
27 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Warning: This post contains satire. Proceed with extreme caution. Side effects include bouts of critical thinking and unintended laughter. If you find...
How Far is Too Far for DOGE?
24 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
I’ve been watching in horror for the past ten years as the Left - aka, the people with all of the institutional power - lose their minds. I know the...
Please, Democrats, Keep Losing Elections
15 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Everywhere I look, I see the telltale hysteria that gripped my former party back in 2016. I was a good soldier for the Left, fighting for what I belie...
So Begins the Un-Coddling of the American Mind
10 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
“With this Executive Order, the war on women’s sports is over.” - Donald Trump, 45th and 47th President of the United States.What must it have f...
The Democrats Try to Un-Crazy Themselves
03 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Hunter S. Thompson wrote in his book Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail:The "mood of the nation," in 1972, was so overwhelmingly vengeful, greedy...
A Survival Guide in the Time of The Intolerant Liberal
27 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Intolerant Liberal is a new species that has arrived on the scene. They are not like the liberals of old. They would never make an offensive joke,...
Finally, a Real Celebration for MAGA
20 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
One Last Ride….=It’s been a long time coming, hasn’t it MAGA? What a ride it’s been for you.As people like me were arguing with Bernie bros ab...
A Farewell Address to a Woketopia Gone Wrong
16 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Joe Biden said goodbye. He wanted to mirror Eisenhower, who once warned of the Military Industrial Complex, but Biden saw something equally alarming—...
Dear Democrats: This Time, You Can't Blame the Republicans
13 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Six years ago on Medium, I wrote the following:The Republicans have systematically turned climate change into a partisan issue, you know, like abortio...
January 6th and the Obama Unreality Machine
06 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
As we approach the four-year anniversary of January 6th, I keep hearing Robin Williams's words from way back: “Reality, what a concept.”It is not ...
What Christmas Meant to Me Then and What it Means Now
24 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
It is my heart-warm and world-embracing Christmas hope and aspiration that all of us, the high, the low, the rich, the poor, the admired, the despised...
Paywall Removed: Trump's Hero's Journey - Extended Cut
22 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
I wished I’d edited the OG Hero’s Journey more, but I wanted to finish it as quickly as possible. I kept thinking of things to add, and a professi...
How Trump's Enemies Manifested His Hero's Journey
19 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
[Introduction: I made this as a special gift for Christmas or the holidays because I wanted to do something more than just a regular podcast to say th...
The Audacity of a Counterculture
10 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
I’ll admit that this Thanksgiving road trip wasn’t exactly fun. Oh, don’t get me wrong. The minute I see my daughter, I am over the moon. Thanks...
A Democrat's Lonely and Hopeless Thanksgiving
28 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
(If you have not yet listened to Part One, that is here)Janet was dreading Thanksgiving this year. She dreaded it every year. Holidays made her feel a...
How the Left Lost its "Cool"
25 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The Democrats and the Left are still working their way through the seven stages of grief over the election. Many of them continue to be in denial as t...
Sorry, Democrats. America is Just Not That Into You.
17 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
There’s almost nothing worse than getting dumped. You’ve done everything right. You had all the money in the world — a billion dollars! You had ...
It Wasn't an Election. It Was an Intervention
11 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
It was like watching SEAL Team Six spelunk into a dangerous war zone and release the hostages from inside the bunker. Millions of us wandered out. We ...
The Left's Empire Takes a Hard Fall
06 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
For four years now, maybe longer, I’ve been saying like a mantra, “There is no saving the Left. There is only saving the country from them.” And...