Gamma Senmin, Soga Shōhaku (1730-1783). Freer Collection, Washington.
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Beyond a Failed Narrative - December 17, 2022 - Americans are living a failed national narrative. Our almost universal belief in our exceptional status as a providentially “chosen people” suspends us in a beguiling myth beyond the reality of history. On September 11, 2001, we reacted with an almost...Recent work.
WATCH: The World This Week — ‘The War: Putin’s View’ - June 6, 2026 - In St. Petersburg this week, the Russian president spoke frankly about Ukraine, NATO and the course of the war: there’s no end in sight. With Ray McGovern and Patrick Lawrence. Watch the replay. Guests: Scott Ritter, Ray McGovern, Patrick Lawrence. Host: Joe Lauria. Producer: Cathy...
PATRICK LAWRENCE: The Systematic Murder of International Law - June 2, 2026 - The Zionist regime is accelerating its long war against international law and justice and the institutions upholding them. What remains of a common human culture will only be kept alive by those willing to fight for it. Do we witness...
PATRICK LAWRENCE: The Cokehead of Kiev, Exposed - May 26, 2026 - Let all the delusions and illusions of the past five years — or 12, if you begin your count with the U.S.–sponsored coup in Kiev back in 2014 — finally fade like the flags. You see very few blue-above-yellow banners...Cú Chulainn.
Cú Chulainn stirred,
Stared on the horses of the sea, and heard
The cars of battle and his own name cried;
And fought with the invulnerable tide.
——Yeats, Cú Chulainn’s Fight with the Sea,
1892
