My Ayn Rand Phase: The Dangers of ‘Dead Dogma’
Robert Jensen ScheerPost Book Excerpt for This I Don’t Believe: A Fulfilling Life without Meaning John Stuart Mill long ago warned that when we are so certain of the truth…
The Benefit of Not Reading
Edward Curtin “For my sister Rita, an artist who didn’t imitate and who died on this day long ago, trying.” It is a commonplace that a steady diet of the…
Just Days After Being Sworn In as Attorney General, Todd Blanche Shows Why He Is Unfit for That Office
Austin Sarat ScheerPost Remember Bill Clinton’s famous verbal footwork during the investigation of his affair with White House intern Monica Lewinsky? When asked about whether he lied when he told…
The Ultra- Rich Are Not Leaving Manhattan
Wealth flight is a Mirage. There are More Billionaires and Multi-Millionaires than ever before Blake Fleetwood ScheerPost Despite the hyperbolic predictions, there has been very little wealth flight under Mayor…
The Dead
The last act of death is not mortality but the erasure of memory. Chris Hedges ScheerPost MECHANIC FALLS, Maine — I am standing in Maple Grove Cemetery in Mechanic Falls,…
Who Owns You in the Age of AI?
Coase, Property Rights, and the AI Debate Everyone Is Having Backwards Jeffrey Wernick The AI debate has settled into two camps. One says the technology is too dangerous to distribute,…
Chris Hedges: Trump’s War on Iran Is Bringing Down the American Empire
“I don’t think we live in a functioning democracy—and that has been true for some time.” Hedges Joshua Scheer Six months into the disastrous U.S.-Israeli war on Iran, the fantasy…
It Looks Like Nick Reiner Killed His Mother and Father, and Now He Wants Their Money. No Way
Austin Sarat ScheerPost The history of American law is filled with interesting and often quirky stories. Courts have heard cases about whether a tomato is a fruit or a vegetable…
How to Take an Election Without Breaking the Law
The first attempt broke the rules and lost. The second one follows them. Jeffrey Wernick The Justice Department has sued thirty states to force them to turn over voter files,…
Fidel Castro at 100: Reflections on His Life and Legacy
Fidel Castro’s revolution began in hope, hardened into authoritarianism and endured as an audacious rebuke to American empire. Steve Wasserman ScheerPost Nearly seventy years ago, Herbert Matthews of The New…
America Itself Has Become Anti-American
Blake Fleetwood ScheerPost Pundits are fear-mongering that Dr. Abdul El-Sayed’s Michigan victory is the clearest sign yet that his party’s old establishment is under a threatening siege. “In the words…
Senator Bill Cassidy and the Drama of Republican Capitulation. Act Two
Austin Sarat ScheerPost Todd Blanche is now Attorney General of the United States. By a vote of 50-49, the Senate confirmed him early in the morning of August 8. His…
The Mamdani Era
Danny Goldberg ScheerPost There’s a store that I walk by every day on my way to work in midtown Manhattan that caters to tourists. They sell keychains, toys and hoodies…
Gaza’s Board of Pieces
Chris Hedges ScheerPost There is no ceasefire in Gaza. There is no functioning “Board of Peace.” There is no roadmap to ending the genocide or mechanism to creation of a…
Court Makes It Clear That the White House Is Not Donald Trump’s Plaything
Austin Sarat ScheerPost More than fifty years ago, New York’s Governor Nelson Rockefeller was accused of having an “edifice complex.” He pled guilty. In an appearance in September 1970 at…