It’s Called the American Dream Because You Have To Be Asleep to Believe It
A thorough dissection of America’s capitalist mythology reveals the sham to which lots of people continue to subscribe, despite growing nationwide suffering.
America’s Slavery-Ridden Origin Story: Facing the Uncomfortable Reality
Writer Dionne Ford dives deep into her ancestry and confronts the complexities of being a Black woman in America with the blood of both the enslaved and the enslaver.
Chris Hedges: 2023 Book TV Interview
Chris Hedges joins Book TV for an interview and live question call-in on C-SPAN 2.
Robert Scheer: Remembering Mikhail Gorbachev, the Greatest Modern Champion of World Peace
ScheerPost revisits Robert Scheer’s 1987 Los Angeles Times review: “From Moscow, First Report of an Unprecedented Call for Change: The Gorbachev Manifesto.”
What Is Class Struggle Unionism?
Joe Burns’ new Class Struggle Unionism comes at a key time. That’s because the long-slumbering union movement looks like it could be starting to stir again.
Thaddeus Stevens and John Marshall: Mythical American Figures Who Still Loom Large
Two highly readable biographies delve into the indelible mark left on American politics by Thaddeus Stevens and John Marshall.
A Hell of America’s Own Making
The Pentagon’s escalating dystopian scenarios, its fixation with being overstretched by climate crises and great power conflict to the point of collapse, and its more recent goal of reducing its…
The Forged Gospel of Jesus’s Wife
Ariel Sabar masterfully dissects the dishonesty and narcissism inherent in nearly all Christian theological work in his book “Veritas: A Harvard Professor, A Con Man and the Gospel of Jesus’s…
Hedges: Kucinich Memoir Is a Moving Account of a Battle Against Corporate Power
When the 'boy mayor' of Cleveland took a stand against privatization of public power, the region's elites deployed every weapon in their arsenal against him, including attempted assassination.
How People in Trouble Created a Radical Health Care Movement
Scott Tucker reviews "Let the Record Show: A Political History of ACT UP New York, 1987 – 1993" by Sarah Schulman, who was a rank-and-file member of one of the…
Book Review: Driving the Samburu Bride
Driving the Samburu BrideBy Diane C. Perlov Reviewed by H Patricia Hynes / Original to ScheerPost Diane Perlov’s memoir of the two years she lived among semi-nomadic people in northern…
Wise Observations on White Racism
By Paul Von Blum / Original to ScheerPost A review of Dispatches from the Race War, by Tim Wise On May 25, 2020, George Floyd was murdered by white police…
Battling White Supremacy in the Ring
Boxing, the historian Gerald Horne argues in his engaging and meticulously researched new book, was effectively weaponized by Blacks in the battle against white supremacy.
‘Out of Mesopotamia’ Is a Great War Novel
Iranian-American author captures how combat has a Peter Pan quality, allowing fighters, as well as war correspondents, to escape from the drudgery of daily life and never grow up.
Plague Journal #21: Caste In America
Should be required reading in any school genuinely concerned about what they should be concerned about: the future of the United States.