Patrick Lawrence: The Question About Biden
In the wake of Zelensky’s wildly provocative statements, it is time to question whether the U.S. president has a personal interest in prolonging the war in Ukraine.
Patrick Lawrence: Psychosis and Its Consequences
By Patrick Lawrence / Original to ScheerPost Remember that startling remark Karl Rove made while serving as an adviser to George W. Bush? It was October 2004, the so-called war…
Patrick Lawrence: Unsweet Dreams
By Patrick Lawrence / Original to ScheerPost What a time for American statecraft. Antony Blinken was in Kiev last week to discuss Ukraine’s rampant corruption with President Volodymyr Zelensky, by…
Patrick Lawrence: American Exceptionalism and Its Consequences
By Patrick Lawrence / Original to ScheerPost Mut zur Ethik is a forum associated with a publishing cooperative that holds conferences twice a year in the environs of Zurich. On…
Patrick Lawrence: Bad Faith and Blank Checks
All mainstream journalism is “embedded journalism” now, for the battlefield is everywhere, writes Patrick Lawrence in this excerpt from his new book, Journalists and Their Shadows.
Patrick Lawrence: The Real Threat From China: They’re Better at Capitalism Than We Are
By Patrick Lawrence / Original to ScheerPost The Biden regime’s robotic procession to Beijing proceeds apace. Following Antony Blinken’s fruitless visit in mid–June, we have paid Janet Yellen’s airfare for…
Patrick Lawrence: The Press and 2024
By Patrick Lawrence / Original to ScheerPost We now tip into the 2024 election season in some kind of official way, with the Republicans scheduled to hold their first primary…
Patrick Lawrence: Biden’s Pointless Asian Summit
Let us consider the grist of the talks the U.S. president hosted at the presidential retreat in Maryland last week. This will not take long.
Patrick Lawrence: Niger and the ‘New World Order’
By Patrick Lawrence / Original to ScheerPost How shall we understand the July 26th coup in Niger, in which military officers ousted Mohamed Bazoum, the nation’s Western-tilted president? It is…
Patrick Lawrence: The Dialectic of the Draft
Americans will understand themselves less fantastically if they consider the extent to which the end of the Selective Service System a half century ago gave them permission to put their…
Patrick Lawrence: Independent Journalism as It Was
By Patrick Lawrence / Original to ScheerPost This is an extract from Lawrence’s Journalists and Their Shadows, available now from Clarity Press, or as a pre-order from Google Books or…
Patrick Lawrence: Reading the Mess the Democrats Have Made
By Patrick Lawrence / Original to ScheerPost At writing, we are 16 months and five days from the 2024 presidential election. If a week is a long time in politics,…
Patrick Lawrence: No, The Truth About Biden Is Not Democratic
By Patrick Lawrence / Original to ScheerPost Let us cast our minds back just briefly to the very fine afternoon of July 22, 2016. It was an especially bright Friday,…
Patrick Lawrence: The US Press, Spooks & the Church Committee
Nineteen fifty-three was a peculiar year for The Washington Post to question the C.I.A.’s drift into activist intrigues, writes Patrick Lawrence in this excerpt from his forthcoming book, Journalists and…
Patrick Lawrence: Anything Anything Anything To Avoid Debating R.F.K. Jr.
By Patrick Lawrence / Original to ScheerPost Our corporate newspapers and broadcasters went into attack mode as soon as Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. announced, in mid–April, he would seek the…