Catch-22
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.…
The Threat Is Backwards
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…
How We Got Here, Part 4: The Framework Solved in Code
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…
How We Got Here, Part 3: The Hidden Power Behind Government—Money, Consent and Control
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…
How We Got Here, Part 2: The Anti-Federalists Were Right
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…
The Constitutional Crisis 238 Years in the Making Episode One
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…
The AI Cartel: How Washington Is Building a Surveillance State Without Calling It One
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…
“Our Hands Are Dirty”: Jeffrey Wernick on America’s Founding Principles, Foreign Entanglements and the Moral Cost of Empire
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…
The Founding Standard: Due Process, Declared War, and the Killings That Are Not Either
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…
“I Am a Jew”: Jeffrey Wernick’s Moral Reckoning With Netanyahu’s Israel
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…
Did Trump Just Create a Political Slush Fund With Taxpayer Money?
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…
88 MILLION PEOPLE, ONE IMPULSE: AMERICA’S WAR ON IRAN BEGINS WITH A FEELING
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…
Trustless Government; A Protocol Upgrade for a Constitutional Republic
By Jeffrey Wernick This article proposes a constitutional upgrade: Decentralize the verification of political power the way Bitcoin decentralized the verification of money. The Trust Problem The biggest problem in…
Killing The ‘Child Independence’ on Its 250th Birthday
Every man’s liberty is in the hands of every petty officer.
When the Secretary Says Observation Is Violence, ‘Get the Fuck Out of the Car’
This is not law enforcement. It is occupation behavior.