The Department of Homeland Security is preparing to spend $125 million on access to a vast commercial database containing personal information on millions of Americans—including names, addresses, Social Security numbers,…
Jeffrey Wernick ScheerPost Many people ignore the Ninth Amendment. James Madison wrote it, and he wrote it to answer an objection he had raised himself. During ratification, Madison and Hamilton…
Jeffrey Wernick Buried in the Senate’s version of the defense authorization bill is a provision that changes the relationship between the American state and private industry. Section 1051 would give…
Jeffrey Wernick ScheerPost Wikipedia states that its articles follow a Neutral Point of View. The policy is the platform’s central promise, the thing that separates an encyclopedia from a brief.…
Jeffrey Wernick There is a phrase that does a great deal of work in American political argument, and almost none of it honest. The phrase is American culture, invoked as…
From Madison’s Failure to Bitcoin’s Challenge to State Power In the concluding installment of his four-part ScheerPost series How We Got Here, Jeffery Wernick brings together the constitutional, monetary, and…
In the first installment of How We Got Here, Jeffrey Wernick examined James Madison’s constitutional design and the safeguards intended to restrain concentrated power. In Part Two, he turned to…
This is Part Two of a special four-part series by Jeffery Wernick for ScheerPost: How We Got Here. Episode 2: The Anti-Federalists Were Right ► Part 1: James Madison► Part…
This is part one of a special four-part series by Jeffery Wernick for ScheerPost: How We Got Here. In this opening episode, Wernick examines James Madison’s original constitutional vision and…
A new executive order claims it is not creating an AI licensing regime. Jeffrey Wernick argues that’s precisely what makes it so dangerous. Jeffrey Wernick The most effective systems of…
Invoking George Washington, John Quincy Adams and the American abolitionist tradition, Jeffrey Wernick argues that permanent foreign attachments and endless war have pushed the United States far from the values…
Jeffrey Wernick ScheerPost There is a principle the founders held that the contemporary American government has substantially abandoned. The principle is that the state cannot kill without due process. Due…
Invoking the words of Jewish prophets, Ahad Ha’am, Martin Buber, Albert Einstein, and Hannah Arendt, Jeffrey Wernick delivers a blistering moral indictment of the Israeli state’s transformation from refuge to…
ScheerPost Staff What began as a lawsuit over leaked tax returns is now morphing into something far bigger — and far more dangerous. In this chilling breakdown, the so-called $1.776…
ScheerPost Staff America has started bombing Iran again, and the most revealing part is how little ceremony it took. No debate, no vote, no national soul‑searching—just a president who “felt…
