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 […]
Useful Political Convo #2 (Education)
(I’m enjoying “strongman’ing” each position as a way to show what each side actually believes instead of painting a cartoonish caricature of the opposing viewpoint — as 99.999% of the corporate media does these days.) Here’s my attempt to show a viable political argument on the state of education in America: CONSERVATIVE: The problem with […]
Useful Political Convo #1
A fictional political argument I penned this am. If only they all actually ended this way progress might actually be made… * * * CONSERVATIVE: The problem with you liberals is you want to raise kids in a padded playpen, keeping them safe from every bump and bruise so they never learn how to stand […]
Thomas Massie Was Right in 2020—And America Paid the Price for Ignoring Him
By Sean Dempsey, 3/13/25 Congressman Thomas Massie is once again standing as one of the last true fiscal warriors in Washington, boldly opposing yet another reckless Continuing Resolution (CR) that will further drown America in unsustainable debt. And make no mistake—Massie has been right before, even when it was unpopular. Massie Was Right in 2020—And America Paid […]
COLLEGE: THE BIGGEST SCAM IN AMERICA
To pick up from Warp Whistle 11 of “The Investor’s Warp Whistles,” what follows are specific examples of administrative bloat as well as lessons from what a college looks like today. Administrative Bloat These excessive expenditures serve to enhance the university’s brand or to attract prospective students—but they do nothing to improve the quality of […]
The Religion of Ideology
Given a lack of meaningful information, Man is blind; he will seek instead to use his intuition, “instincts,” and naked assumptions to form an opinion. This is not wrong, per se; it is a natural reaction to seek to fill gaps in one’s knowledge. When the matter is of great importance, these opinions unfortunately will […]