Patrick Lawrence: Our Age of Unreason
We have lost that connection between reason and morality …. We have decisively lost our idea of the commonweal as the anchor from which reason will make its case.
Patrick Lawrence: To Whom Goes the Good?
We find ourselves plunging well beyond the apple-pie authoritarianism that threatened a few years ago. No apple pie this time.
Patrick Lawrence: A Nation of Narcissists
Narcissism is the open-and-shut condition of the elites who fashion and execute American foreign policy. And they are utterly incapable of seeing their country as it is.
Patrick Lawrence: The State of the ‘State of Palestine’
To put the point simply, Israel has murdered, starved and terrorized too many Palestinians for this year’s gathering at the Secretariat in Manhattan to conclude without some conclusions.
Patrick Lawrence: Trump & the Russophobes
The extent to which Trump’s démarche toward Moscow succeeds will be the extent to which the U.S. can transcend a long, regrettable history and finally embrace the 21st century.
Patrick Lawrence: Yes, It’s a Genocide
We are now urged — and required by law in many jurisdictions — to accept a definition of “antisemitism” that is beyond preposterous.
Patrick Lawrence: Washington Takes on the BRICS
Trump’s lashing out at the group of non-Western nations is so clumsy, so off the mark, so utterly unaware of where the hands are on history’s clock.
Patrick Lawrence: Sun Valley vs. Queensbridge
This will be a riveting campaign season; in my read it is unlikely to be a pretty one.
Patrick Lawrence: Trump Dead-Ends Putin
For a good long time what’s been happening in Ukraine is nothing more than postwar gore. If you have lost a war but cannot admit it, you are playing the…
Patrick Lawrence: Now What?
“How can you tell,” Reuters asked in a June 29 report, “if enriched uranium stocks, some of them near weapons grade, were buried beneath the rubble or secretly hidden away?”
Patrick Lawrence: ‘Completely & Totally Obliterated’
The Iraq invasion and the bombing of Iran are acts of desperation — the conduct of a wounded, uncertain nation that went on the defensive when the Twin Towers went…
Patrick Lawrence: The World’s Most Dangerous Man and His Enabler
Trump and Netanyahu just executed the cheapest sort of good-cop, bad-cop routine with Tehran.
Journalists and Their Shadows (w/ Patrick Lawrence) | The Chris Hedges Report
Patrick Lawrence and Chris Hedges chronicle the decline of mainstream media and the craft of journalism, and the dark psychological reality behind media complicity in schemes of the powerful.
Patrick Lawrence: For Whom the Drones Buzz
If military drones are “revolutionizing” instruments, then wherever we are, we are in a field of battle.
Patrick Lawrence: War in Our Time
It is well to remind ourselves that Russians view Merz’s ambitions on the military side, including his apparent determination to escalate Germany’s military support for Ukraine, through history’s lens.