Free Thinking Through the Fourth Turning with Sasha Stone
Episodes
The RagTag Revolutionaries Who Made the Empire Sweat
05 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In Breaking Away, the Cutters have everything against them. Their bike barely works, their shoes are old and tattered, and only one of them can ride. ...
The Democrats Deserve to Lose
01 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The Democrats have been chasing the dragon for so long even they don’t know what they stand for anymore. Shaped by identity politics and social just...
A Terrifying Night in a Good Liberal Town
31 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Janet had a choice to make. Would she wear the T-shirt that said, “What’s so funny about peace, love, and understanding?” or would she put on th...
Where I Was on January 6th, and Where I Wasn't.
29 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
On January 6th, I should have been huddled on my couch and glued to MSNBC. Their hysteria and fear would have validated everything I already believed ...
Meet the Real Fascists
27 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
"The essence of propaganda consists in winning people over to an idea so sincerely, so vitally, that in the end they succumb to it utterly and can nev...
Bruce Springsteen and The Death of the Joy
25 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
“I came for you, for you, I came for you, but you did not need my urgency. I came for you, for you, I came for you, but your life was one long emerg...
Trump for Dummies
22 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Years from now, the question will go something like this, “where were you when you first realized the media was lying to you about Trump?”Me, I wa...
Why This California Liberal is Voting for Donald Trump
13 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
“Once upon a time you dressed so fineThrew the bums a dime in your prime, didn't you?People call say 'beware doll, you're bound to fall'You thought ...
The Slap Not Heard Round the World
09 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
When the New York Times asked professional women if they’d ever been sexually assaulted, I answered them, and my story appeared just before the Harv...
Trump's Triumphant Return to Butler, PA
04 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Tomorrow, on Saturday, Trump is returning to Butler, PA. Trump and Butler seem connected in ways that make for one of the greatest stories in American...
It's The Crisis of Masculinity, Stupid
30 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
It seems to have suddenly occurred to the Democrats that they have a problem with men. Oh, we know they have a problem with men. That’s all we’ve ...
Mama Bears for Trump
26 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
I’ll never forget the moment when I realized what being a mother meant. It wasn’t the 18 hours of labor or crying out for the nurse to hand me my ...
Dear Hollywood: Read the Room
24 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Hollywood used to give us the chance to sit under one roof and enjoy a universal story. The magic of the movies was always something we could share. W...
Rachel Maddow and the Madman
19 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
I was one of those people who believed Rachel Maddow. I sat glued to her show every night. I even patrolled Trump’s entire Twitter feed to find the ...
Trump's Surprising Secret Weapon: Sympathy
12 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Kamala Harris believes she “won” the debate. It’s hard to argue with that conclusion. But there were unintended consequences her team did not fa...
Interview with Me by Paul Finn of the Generation Report
10 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
I have just discovered that my very long interview with the great Paul Finn of The Generation Report is finally up on YouTube. He runs a really great ...
WaPo's Matt Bai is Okay with Dehumanizing Trump Supporters
09 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
There is nothing more loathsome to the average upper-crust liberal intellectual than an American holding Donald Trump’s book in one arm and the Bibl...
Kamala Harris’ Run for the Presidency Looks Like an Oscar Campaign.
06 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Harris has been tripping the light fantastic on the campaign trail only showing the side her campaign wants people to see. It reminds me of the many y...
America is Being Love-Bombed by the Harris Campaign
25 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
America is being love-bombed by the Kamala Harris campaign. It’s been confusing and disorienting, but so many are going along with it because how ca...
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 ...