The Gospel According to Trump
Kenneth A. Carlson ScheerPost I was raised in Ohio, where scarlet red means two things. It means loyalty to the Ohio State Buckeyes, whose fans wear scarlet and gray with…
Trump’s Will Be Done
Joshua Scheer Intro At a moment when political power is increasingly wrapped in spectacle, symbolism, and something closer to religious devotion than democratic accountability, this piece from ScheerPost cuts straight…
The Quiet Casualties of War: Americans at Home
Kenneth A. Carlson ScheerPost By the time most Americans encounter war, it arrives not with the thunder ofartillery but with the quiet click of a gas pump. The price rolls…
Grabbing Iran by the Pussy
By Kenneth A. Carlson ScheerPost There are moments in public life when a metaphor — however crude — reveals more than a thousand policy papers ever could. In a 2005…
Does Character Still Matter in the Age of Trump?
By Kenneth A. Carlson / Original to ScheerPost At a wedding reception a few weeks before the 2024 presidential election, amid champagne toasts and laughter, a close friend leaned toward…
Trump and the Lemon Law of Voter Denial
This is not a partisan gripe. It’s a lament for a country in cognitive dissonance.
Trump’s Will Be Done
By Kenneth A. Carlson / Original to ScheerPost Growing up in the heartland of America, as a preacher’s kid nicknamed PK,” I was taught to apply one guiding question to…