Economics

My Letter to the SEC

To the Most Exalted Lords, Commissioners, High Priests, and Keepers of the Ever-Elastic Definition of Fraud – the Venerable Securities & Exchange Commission: I write today with a humble plea that I fear has been overlooked by your otherwise flawless administration of financial justice. I shall cut right to the proverbial chase. Would you humbly […]

Current Events

The Deafening Echo Chamber: Our Victorious War We Won So HUGELY Until We Found Out We Maybe Lost It

by Sean Dempsey | 06/23/26 One must begin, in charity, with the invariable suffering of the average Fox News Boomer Republican. He is not a villain in this drama so much as a carefully cultivated specimen, raised under bright studio lights, fed a steady diet of certainty, and released each evening into the wilderness of […]

Short Stories

The Obsolete Mr. Sterling

by Sean Dempsey | 06/18/26 One hundred years after the United States of America had solved freedom, no one was free enough to say what exactly had been solved. The red, white, and blue cloth still flew proudly. The anthem still played before public ceremonies. And, yes, the revered U.S. Constitution still existed, sealed inside […]

Current Events

What’s in the DEAL?!?

By Sean Dempsey | 06/17/26 Somewhere in Washington, locked inside a mahogany box, wrapped in red ribbon, guarded by lawyers, lobbyists, oil executives, Gulf princes, cable-news shamans, and at least three retired generals who now sell Raytheon-flavored wisdom on television, there is allegedly a document. They call it a Memorandum of Understanding. Of course they […]

Culture Philosophy

The Meaning-Shaped Hole: Man Killed God and Started Worshiping Worse Gods

By Sean Dempsey For roughly two centuries, enlightened man was vainly assured that religion was simply a childhood illness from which civilization would eventually recover. God, so we were told, had served His temporary function. He had frightened the peasants into behaving, decorated the ceilings of Europe, inspired a tolerable amount of organ music, and […]

Current Events Foreign Policy

Campaign Promises vs. Political Reality: When the Slogan Met the Swamp

Disclaimer: Information Sourced with much Assistance from AI | 06/08/26 There was a time, not very long ago, when “America First” meant something almost embarrassingly easy to understand. It meant that American soldiers would not be used as disposable pawns in foreign wars. It meant that Congress, not cable-news hosts, foreign lobbyists, donor-class billionaires, or […]