by Sean Dempsey, 04/03/2015 Tariffs Explained Tariffs, often sold as shields to protect a nation’s workers and industries, are in reality a cruel tax that falls hardest on the poor and middle class of the very country that levies them. Far from safeguarding prosperity, they distort markets, inflate prices, and erode purchasing power, as some […]
2025: The Year the Wokeism Wave Crested?
By Sean Dempsey, 04/03/25 In hindsight, 2024 will likely be chronicled in history books as the year when the postmodern fever broke—an era marked by an unchecked commitment to relativism, the absurd elevation of subjectivity, and an almost religious rejection of objective truth. Beauty was no longer allowed to exist on its own terms; instead, […]
THE LOST TAPES OF DR. MICHEL SIFFRE
What you are about to read is 100% based off a TRUE story. Michel Siffre is REAL. =============== by Sean Dempsey, 04/02/25 A Chronicle of Isolation, Madness, and Savage Darkness In the early 1970s, as Cold War psychology and space exploration collided with radical ideas about human consciousness, a lesser-known but brilliant French geologist and […]
The Shelter-Door Was Strong and Thick
By Sean Dempsey, 03/31/25 The sun sank low on Lilac Lane; The stars began to peep. And laughter rang from mouths of men Who’d never yet known grief. With meat and wine their hearts were glad— Their tables richly spread. Till sudden came the radio’s cry: “A bomb shall strike,” it said! […]
A Fool’s Gold
Sean Dempsey, 04/01/2025 There was once a king so rich that other kings wept when they heard his name. His majesty, Kaiser My’Kael Sellur, High King of the Lost Isles of Bit’Quon, ruled over a land where wealth dripped from every rooftop and pooled in the gutters. His vaults ran so deep and wide that […]
The Obsolete Mr. Malum
By Sean Dempsey, 03/28/2025 This echo-filled chamber of judgment was not built to house men, but to erase them. Its walls were clean, without seams, without windows, without warmth. Light spilled from hidden fixtures like surgical lamps—cold, clinical, sterilizing. Every sound echoed twice. Each breath of the men and women in this dim legal sanctuary […]
The Innocents Among Us: An Analysis of the Human Spirit from Dostoevsky’s “The Idiot” to “Ted Lasso”
By Sean Dempsey, 03/23/25 “The main idea of the novel is to depict the positively good man. There is nothing more difficult than this in the world, especially nowadays… the task is immeasurable…” – Fyodor Dostoevsky In the intricate interplay of characters and their societal backdrops, the portrayal of characters imbued with an almost divine […]
The Myth of Constitutional America: How a Nation Betrayed Its Own Founding Document
To Those Just Now Waking Up—Where Have You Been? By Sean Dempsey, 3/20/25 Oh, so now you see it? Now, after decades of rampant government abuse, after endless wars, after a surveillance state that tracks your every move, after a Federal Reserve that devalues your savings into dust—now you’re realizing that the U.S. government doesn’t follow the Constitution? […]
The Real Cause of Rising Commodity Prices: Inflation, Not a Bubble
By Sean Dempsey, 3/19/25 This is a response to Max Baecker’s terribly misguided recent piece in Forbes. The Real Cause of Rising Commodity Prices: Inflation, Not a Bubble The surge in commodity prices today is not the result of a speculative bubble but rather a direct consequence of inflation caused by a massive expansion of […]
Postmodernists
The Postmodernists applaud when grifters and the mentally compromised enter women’s sports leagues. They call this “acceptance.” The Postmodernists applaud consumerism and the shaving of our gold coins; they label this “stimulus.” The Postmodernists celebrate child abusers who mutilate the fragile bodies and psyches of the impressionable young. They call this “progressive.” The Postmodernists bathe […]