The Libertarian Opposition is Rising…
By Sean Dempsey | 06/03/2026 There is, in the modern Republic, no more reliable method of discovering an honest man than observing how much money is required to destroy him. The obedient congressman, that cheerful little instrument of appropriations, authorizations, emergency supplementals, continuing resolutions, foreign aid packages, surveillance renewals, debt-ceiling evasions, and all the other […]
by Sean Dempsey | 06/02/24 When I try to make sense of currency in the digital age, I start from a conviction that feels almost embarrassingly old-fashioned: money cannot survive without hard grounding; it must not subsist as mere style. It can be abstract, electronic, contractual, or symbolic, but it cannot be only mood. Philosophers […]
by Sean Dempsey | 05/26/26 There was once a gentle farmer,From troubles borne was he—His eyes were wan, his spirits low;But he’d unload his woe for free. The farmer sighed a grievous sigh,And gazed on through the trees;“Come sit thee upon this stump,And hear the tale from me….” Pippin was a spotted hound,As dear as […]
An excerpt from the book Trump Again? How Could America Let This Happen? (2024) by Sean Dempsey As illustrated in the previous chapters, Wokeism is often hard to properly describe or objectively criticize because of its over-reaching (and ever-changing) definition(s). “Woke” has to carry a lot of water for the Left because it has become […]
by Sean Dempsey The tragedy of the Libertarian Party is not merely that it has become weak, but that it has become weak while imagining itself righteous. At the very hour the republic sinks beneath debt, inflation, censorship, endless foreign entanglements, and the slow strangulation of liberty by the administrative state, the self-congratulating play-actors of […]
An Excerpt from Dempsey’s Book “Trump Again!? How Could America Let This Happen?” Third Rails: Religion & Politics It is not lost on this writer that faith-based discussions often land on “deaf ears” (or perhaps to keep the analogy I will say “blind eyes”). There is a reason why wise folks attest that in polite […]
Curated by Sean Dempsey (from other thought leaders) Since the CIA, State Department, and other U.S. intelligence agencies have confirmed countless times that Iran was not engaged in a nuclear weapons program, there are several competing theories for why the United States and Israel ultimately moved toward direct (unprovoked) war with Iran in 2025 despite […]
J’Accuse this inept and corrupt administration! J’Accuse it not in defense of a foreign regime, nor in blind loyalty to any rival power, but in defense of TRUTH itself, which is forever the first casualty of dogged empire. J’Accuse those who would drape every reckless adventure abroad in the crimson flag of patriotism, as though […]
By Sean Dempsey, 04/28/26 We stumbled into the sun like criminals fleeing a sex crime we could not remember committing. It felt like Monday. But time and sanity meant nothing to us in the fog of drink and this sublime orgy of heat-infused alcohol and sin. The El Dorado resort still stretched before us in […]
War, that most vain and venerated instrument of national pride, does not merely nudge the price of petrol upward, it rends asunder the delicate machinery of trade itself. Ships are halted, roads reduced to rubble, and the humble materials upon which industry depends are spirited away, so that fewer goods are fashioned while the public, […]