Free Thinking Through the Fourth Turning with Sasha Stone

The Weirdness of Manufactured Joy

19 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Congratulations to all of you who supported the Democrats. You won. You should be very proud of yourselves. You won in your singular support of Joe Bi...

Adopting Positions from Her Rivals is a Signature Move for Kamala Harris

18 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The new Kamala Harris is a grand illusion. It looks more like an Oscar campaign for Best Actress than an election for President of the United States. ...

"Joy" ™ or How to Beat a Forever Regime

11 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

How do you solve a problem like Kamala Harris? If you criticize or attack her, you’ll be seen as a “racist” by the powerful people on the Left, ...

How Did Orwell Know?

06 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

A few days ago, a reporter from one of the trades asked me for an interview. I knew there could only be one reason she would want to interview me, and...

[Listen] JD Vance is a Hero

04 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

[This is the podcast version of an already posted story]It’s too late for me. I followed the feminist lie through most of my life, only to wake up m...

[Listen] Yes, Trump Should Debate Harris

04 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

[This was already posted as a story, here is the podcast version]Trump is under no obligation to debate Kamala Harris, who was hand-picked for the nom...

"Get Me a Normie White Guy"

30 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Just when you thought America was No Country for White Men, the Democrats have once again rewritten their own rules. White people, even white men, are...

Feminists for Trump

26 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Republicans have a problem: a fast-moving narrative that will dominate the news cycle for the next few months if they allow it to. This comes courtesy...

The Beginning of the End of Woketopia

23 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

It began with the nation’s first Black President, but it would become much bigger. It would become a movement that captured every major institution ...

Donald Trump and the Angels

20 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

"Courage is not having the strength to go on; it is going on when you don't have the strength."— Theodore RooseveltIn 1912, Teddy Roosevelt was on h...

Finally, They Said Their Names

19 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

“President Trump represents America’s last best hope to restore what — if lost — may never be found again. A country where a working-class boy...

Sarah Huckabee Sanders Gets the Last Laugh

18 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Beautiful, elegant, strong—when Sarah Huckabee Sanders glided out on stage on Night 2 of the Republican National Convention, I could not help but th...

The Courage to Change Your Mind

16 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

“Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.” ―George Bernard ShawLast night, at the RNC Convention, Make America Wealthy Once A...

Oh, the Inhumanity

15 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

When I found my way to Trump’s rallies in the Summer of 2020, I felt like I had crawled out of a desert searching for signs of life. No one could kn...

All the News that's Unfit to Print

12 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Dear New York Times Editorial Board,In your haste to make nice with your paying subscribers—I am one, too, by the way—you decided to swap out jour...

Oh, That Sweet Sweet Schadenfreude

10 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

“Schadenfreude can’t get much better than watching the Republican Party self-humiliate with an abject inability to win while controlling the House...

They've Been Hidin' Biden and Harris Since the 2020 Election

04 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Team Joe wasn’t a popular place to be back in May of 2019 when I was invited to a fundraiser in Hancock Park at the home of wealthy donor Cynthia Te...

Donald Trump, Taylor Swift and Me

28 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

It’s hard to believe I’ve become a completely different person than I was four years ago. Not only am I a Trump supporter now, which in and of its...

Hollywood Can't Save itself, Let Alone Joe Biden

21 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

When Barack Obama gently took Joe Biden’s hand and led him offstage at a $30 million fundraiser in Los Angeles, it was hard not to see the whole thi...

The Deep State Meets the Honey Badger

13 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

“Being in a minority, even in a minority of one, did not make you mad. There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even aga...

Joe Biden's Eternal Nightmare

05 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Don’t let Joe Biden’s creepy grin fool you. He’s not confident. He’s terrified. They all are. Imagine being them right now. Imagine having all...

Trump and The Hero's Journey

27 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

As Trump wows the public at rallies, Biden seethes behind the castle walls, demanding that his nemesis be convicted and jailed.The next big news day f...

Nellie Bowles Thoroughly Humiliates the New York Times

18 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In 2024, the most radical act imaginable is telling the truth. Nellie Bowles has done just that with her new book, Morning After the Revolution. She ...

The Democrats' Stormy Hypocrisy

13 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Bill Clinton once said, “Democrats fall in love, and Republicans fall in line.” We had to fall in love with him, that’s for sure, because by 199...

It's the Democrats Turn to Scare America

04 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

As college protests sprouted like mushrooms in Joe Biden’s America, the fanaticism of the Left seemed to catch many by surprise. How could it have g...

"Let Joe Be Joe" has been a Disaster

28 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Joe Biden has been a failure as the leader of the United States. There has never been one moment in the past four years when he has thought of us, the...

It Takes a Village to Trans a Child

24 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Dear Hillary,In 1996, you wrote:“The African proverb “It takes a village to raise a child” summed up for me the commonsense conclusion that, lik...

The Lawfare made me a Trump supporter

13 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Six years ago, I stood a few feet away from Joe Biden at a fundraiser and was certain he was the only person who could save this country from Donald T...

An Interview with Writer John Nolte

11 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

I’ve been wanting to interview John Nolte about his sublime and brilliant book, Borrowed Time ever since I read it. Well, the day has finally arrive...

How to Spot an "Election Denier"

05 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

There could be an Election Denier right next door. They could deliver your mail, serve you a cocktail at the airport, sit next to you on the subway, o...

Ronna McDaniel Wouldn't Deliver Enough Hate for MSNBC

29 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

A chill went down my spine in 2020 when I realized what I’d been participating in for the four years Trump was in power. I didn’t go along with al...

Why Trump is Polling Ahead of Biden

24 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Unlike most people in the media, Frank Luntz spends a lot of time talking to regular folks. He and can see the objective reality of where we are now, ...

Too Black to Fail

22 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

It took us decades, but we finally found religion on the Left. The counterculture initially seemed great: a big bang of movies, civil rights, women’...

What Really Happened to Matt Drudge?

17 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In the new podcast series, Finding Matt Drudge, Chris Moody wants to know two things: why Matt Drudge dropped out of sight and why he turned on Donald...

The Proposed Ban on TikTok is Election Interference

15 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Kara Swisher has a good strategy for Joe Biden to beat Donald Trump, which she shared on CNN. Just call Trump three things: Racist, Rapist, Fascist.Th...

Respectfully, Mr. De Niro, Get a Grip

11 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Dear Mr. De Niro,I trust you had a wonderful evening at the Oscars. Watching you bask in the comforting embrace of the special people was a reminder o...

The Red Pill Revolution

03 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Guess what I’m doing on Super Tuesday? I’m registering as a Republican to vote for Donald Trump in the primary in California. They won’t allow m...

The Fourth Turning Explainer - Why is it called that anyway?

26 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.sashastone.comIt took me some time to consider an “extra” for paid subscribers, ...

Why Joe Biden isn't Sweating

25 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Fear is trickling down the walls at the White House like blood from a crime scene. They try to wipe it away with a Lawrence O’Donnell monologue here...

This is What Totalitarianism Looks Like

20 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Donald Trump isn’t Alexei Navalny. He wasn’t poisoned or beaten or tortured, then left to die in a Siberian gulag. We aren’t under the control o...

The Democrats Are Going Down with the Ship

15 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

A source tells Free Thinking what’s really going on.What old man in the White House? I didn’t see any old man in the White House. The President, y...

Gaslighting Biden's Troubles Away

10 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

I don’t know what’s going to happen. All I can say is this: The man we saw speaking from the White House tonight, on February 8—that man will no...

Confessions of a Corrupt Liberal

07 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

“So you’re voting for Du-taxus?” a woman said to me in 1988. I was a lowly receptionist at a gym called “Women Only,” which was probably lat...

Taylor Swift's People Meet Joe Biden's People

01 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Joanna Parker paces in her office. The media narrative successfully sank the Republicans and their efforts to steal some of the Taylor Swift/Travis Ke...

What Trump and MAGA Are Up Against in 2024

29 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This election year promises to be one long “October Surprise” as the newly weaponized legal system, and Department of Justice go to unprecedented ...

Why I'm Rooting for the 1972 Landslide I Once Feared

18 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

I am not supposed to be rooting for Trump and MAGA. I’m supposed to be one of the million and change who huddles on my couch in terror, watching MSN...

January 6th and How the Press Became the "Enemy of the American People"

05 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

On January 6th, Trump will give a rally in Iowa. He’ll do what he’s done for seven years as a hunted man - reassure his supporters that there is n...

An Ex-Democrat's Case for Trump

23 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

“Are you a Trump supporter now?” is the question my friends, acquaintances, and colleagues sometimes ask me. I know the answer to that question co...

Rob Reiner's Misery

22 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Rob Reiner was jolted awake. Just minutes ago, he could have sworn he was holding his wife and sleeping soundly. Now, he could barely move.What was wr...

Rob Reiner and the Sea of Oswalds

20 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

[Part One - Here]Rob Reiner wanted to sleep. But his thoughts swirled around in his brain like a cage full of butterflies. Make it stop, make it stop....

Rob Reiner's Wilderness of Mirrors

13 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Rob Reiner holds his phone in front of his face, and doom-scrolls Twitter. One after the other, all about the coming apocalypse, Donald Trump's potent...

"Elon Musk Says Go F*** Yourself"

30 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

[Profanity warning…..]There is a scene in David Fincher’s The Social Network where Sean Parker (played by Justin Timberlake) has Mark Zuckerberg (...

Meet the Real "Insurrectionists"

14 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

You wouldn’t know me if you met me in May of 2019, as I drove to a luncheon for Joe Biden sponsored by a big donor at one of the mansions in a wealt...

The Democrats Win on Abortion But Future Generations Might Look Back in Horror

09 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Everything you’ve heard is true. The Republicans are losing on abortion. They are not motivated to turn out the same way the Democrats are unless Tr...

DeSantis Has a Charisma Deficit

06 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Ron DeSantis has every quality a presidential candidate needs - good looks, youth, a nice family, and a strong governance track record in Florida. Wha...

Is it Anti-Semitism or "Anti-Whiteness?"

02 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Our country, at the hands of the Left, is falling apart. There is no center. It is as though termites have eaten away the foundation as we allowed so ...

Cancel Culture Warriors Get a Taste of Their Own Medicine

26 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

A tweet about the Holocaust? Sorry, Gina Carano, you’re finished with Disney. A tweet about how violent protests lose elections got you fired? Sorry...

Book Review: Borrowed Time, An American Masterpiece

20 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

“And so shines a good deed in a weary world,” that’s the line that ran through my head as I finished John Nolte’s first novel, Borrowed Time. ...

Once Upon a New York Times: A Cautionary Tale

18 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Once upon a time, there was a Paper of Record. They proudly claimed that moniker because they valued journalism. They valued getting the facts before ...

The Attack by Hamas Shatters The Lies About January 6th

12 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

As we watch the horrific images of Hamas's brutal attack on Israeli citizens, there is no mistaking the face of evil.This is brutality on a scale most...

The GOP Might be Chaotic, but at Least They Aren't Sterilizing Children

07 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

I was part of a movement on the Left that endlessly softened language to avoid offending a single person we deemed marginalized. What we couldn’t sa...

Gods and Monsters in America

03 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

“If they want a monster so badly, they ought to be provided by one.” ― Margaret AtwoodTheir monster is Trump. He is the entire economy of the me...

The Kamala Calamity

29 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Joe Biden lied about who he was when he ran for president. He said he was a moderate. He isn’t. He said he would unite the country. He hasn’t. He ...

Nicolle Wallace Wants Gulags

22 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

“We create the illusion that being informed is a kind of action in itself. So to wash that guilt out—to eliminate the shame and discomfort you fee...

Why Trump, Why Now

15 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Yes, Trump can win.Many Conservatives worry that Trump can’t win. Democrats, they believe, have rigged the system in their favor, and there is no de...

The Counterculture Revolution is Already Here

05 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

The 50th Annual Telluride Film Festival went off mostly without a hitch. It was the same beautiful town in the mountains of Colorado I’d been visiti...

The Mugshot "Heard" Round the World

29 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

By the rude bridge that arched the flood,Their flag to April's breeze unfurled,Here once the embattled farmers stood,And fired the shot heard round th...

Hurricane Hillary and The Wicked Queen

20 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Memes sprouted up online as the rare, once-in-a-generation Hurricane Hilary threatened Los Angeles. “She’s back,” they all said. No one could mi...

The Democrats are Paper Tigers

17 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

“Life's but a walking shadow; a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more: it is a tale told by an idiot...

Yes, David Brooks, You Are the "Bad Guys"

06 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Dear Mr. Brooks,Your column might be the best thing written in the New York Times in the past seven years. You’ve undoubtedly been subjected to a f...

Trump and the Seeds of Mass Hysteria

03 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Part 1 - America at the Hands of a Cult | Part 2 - A Religious WarAs yet another indictment of Trump rolls out, they can barely contain their exciteme...

The Two Faces of Joe Biden

29 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

“Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.” ― John SteinbeckI not only believed in the myth of Joe Biden, I ...

Of Communism and Oppenheimer

22 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This is a supplement to the piece I posted yesterday that needs clarification. It is all too easy to see both Barbie and Oppenheimer as two sides of t...

The Politics of Barbie and Oppenheimer

22 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

It’s beginning to look a lot like the 1950s. No two films recall that era more than Barbie and Oppenheimer, both opening this weekend. Despite these...

How Sound of Freedom Dominated the Box Office and Embarrassed Hollywood

16 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Sound of Freedom is sailing toward $100 mil without breaking a sweat. It topped all Hollywood blockbusters, from Disney’s catastrophe, Indiana Jones...

The Day Journalism Died

14 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

“The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.” ― Thomas JeffersonNovember 8th, 2016. That ...

How Hollywood Destroyed Itself

09 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Houston, we have a problem.Now that COVID is long gone, and studios are putting out blockbusters again, it almost seems like things are back to “nor...

How Hollywood Destroyed Itself

09 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Houston, we have a problem.Now that COVID is long gone, and studios are putting out blockbusters again, it almost seems like things are back to “nor...

What I Love About America

04 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

The first time I realized I was a proud American was the month I spent in Italy in 1997 with a man who would become the father of my child that month,...

Welcome to America's Religious War

03 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Part One: The Timeline is here.Are we living through a culture war or a religious war? Can we even tell the difference by now?The Left demonized the r...

America at the Hands of a Cult

25 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

The Summer of 2020 was both a revolution and a coup, ultimately resulting in an unshakable pact between the Woke and all major corporate and cultural ...

Happy Father's Day

18 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

My Dad called me “happy Sash,” which was ironic because I was never a happy kid. I was a worried kid, just like I’m a worried adult. My dad woul...

The Big Lie About Trump

12 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

“We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. We must remember always that accusation is not proof and that conviction depends upon evidence and due...

"What is a Girl?"

07 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

What I have to do, I have to catch everybody if they start to go over the cliff — I mean if they're running and they don't look where they're going ...

The 2020 Election and The Fog of War

31 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

I used to be a true blue loyalist. My grandmother, an FDR Democrat, and lifelong social worker, kept a signed picture of Bill Clinton on her kitchen w...

The Left's Incurable Munchausen by Proxy

17 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

As I began my drive across this big, beautiful country of ours, I saw real life going on. RVs filled with families hitched to trucks making their way ...

Fox News Goes the Way of the Landline

11 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

The same network that called Tucker Carlson a “Right-wing extremist” has decided to put Donald Trump back on prime time. As their hypocrisy comes ...

Joe Biden's Ghost Ship

08 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

“Fear not the path of Truth for the lack of People walking on it.” ― Robert F. KennedyA new poll by ABC News/Washington Post shows both Trump an...

Schumer, AOC and Rupert Murdoch Unite to Silence Tucker

03 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

“Free societies...are societies in motion, and with motion comes tension, dissent, friction. Free people strike sparks, and those sparks are the bes...

Tucker Carlson Ousted Before He Could Respond to 60 Minutes and Ray Epps

26 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

[Imaginary Tucker Carlson Monologue for Monday, April 24th, 2023]TUCKER CARLSON: “Good Evening, and welcome to Tucker Carlson Tonight. No doubt you’...

The Democrats Have Abandoned an America in Crisis

24 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

“When you're at the end of your rope, tie a knot and hold on.” ― Theodore RooseveltJoe Biden and the Democrats could learn something from what j...

No, Elon Musk Did Not "Ruin" Twitter

20 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

beware those who are quick to censorthey are afraid of what they do not knowbeware those who seek constant crowds forthey are nothing alone - Charles ...

We Need to Talk About Audrey Hale and Riley Gaines

15 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

“In a country that doesn't discriminate between fame and infamy, the latter presents itself as plainly more achievable.” ― Lionel Shriver, We Ne...

Biden's America - A Society That Has Given Up on Itself

08 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

“Weimar Germany conjures up fears of what can happen when there is simply no societal consensus on how to move forward and every minor difference be...

Sorry, Democrats, You're Not the Good Guys Anymore

03 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

“Human madness is oftentimes a cunning and most feline thing. When you think it fled, it may have but become transfigured into some still subtler fo...

Democrats Have Nothing Left But Trump

26 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Because the truth is, it was never really about Trump. It was about us. What we were before Trump, what we did while Trump was in office, and what we’...

The Pledge of Allegiance to the "Woke"

21 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

It’s kind of amazing that there was ever a time in American life when we pledged ourselves one Nation under God, isn’t it? It seems we are no long...

How I Knew The Democrats and The Media Were Lying About January 6th

16 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Utopias by their nature have only two options if they’re to survive. They must lean into totalitarianism or collapse. We’re now at the moment when...

The Best Film of the Year that Won't Win Best Picture

07 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

How is it possible that the highest-grossing, best-reviewed film of the year - by critics and audiences - that was credited with saving the film indus...

Biden Gets Trumped in East Palestine, Ohio

01 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

President Biden is anxious to take his rightful place in history as a real president, not an establishment stooge who kicked around congress for decad...