Out of Time
The modern view of time asserts it is an objective measurement; it ticks away and for everyone ends in death. So fight the clock; fight death. Hurry, hurry! Run, Rabbit,…
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.
The Silent Singing Bird of Flamboyant Plumage
Silence. Without it, we are bereft of meaningful words and end up talking repetitive gibberish, small talk.
Patrick Lawrence: De-Westernizing Ourselves
Embarking on a process of personal, individual “de–Westernization” is absolutely essential if we propose to defend the humanity of humanity.
Michael Brenner: The Moral Depravity of Western Imperialism
By Max Jones and Diego Ramos / ScheerPost Staff Writers Professor Michael Brenner joins this episode of Journalists for Sale to discuss the moral emptiness of Western empire, most visibly…
Gatekeeping Against a Shared Humanity
A basic foundation of shared humanity is enough to halt almost every ill.
Chris Hedges: The Pedagogy of Power
The ruling classes always work to keep the powerless from understanding how power functions. This assault has been aided by a cultural left determined to banish "dead white male" philosophers.
Lessons From Gramsci for Social Movements Today
From Gramsci’s political thinking and practical strategizing come a set of ideas that arguably have only grown more salient with time.
Patrick Lawrence: ‘Pessimism of the Mind, Optimism of the Will’
By Patrick Lawrence / Original to ScheerPost Some years ago now, while researching a book that eventually came out as Somebody Else’s Century, I spent time in Ahmedabad, a city…