The Libertarian Opposition is Rising…
by Sean Dempsey | 07/21/26 Dear reader, before you begin this story please know that every fact is real. I embellished nothing, save my typical literary flare. Always remember this simple truth: human injustice is not the exception, it is the rule… ===== I first learned that I no longer existed inside a bank. Well, […]
Sean Dempsey | 07/14/26 It is a circumstance of no small moment, upon the fortunate death of Senator Lindsey Graham on the 12th of July in the year 2026, that the customary veil of funeral oratory should be torn aside. This is not the season for misty recollections of a “true American patriot” or a […]
A Treatise on Metamodern Patriotism By Sean Dempsey | 07/08/24 It has become fashionable among the well-fed and self-serving flatterers of power to insist that a man must either adore his government or despise his country. They say this as though America were a marble idol seated behind a mahogany desk in Washington DC, signing […]
By Sean Dempsey | 07/02/26 Never before in history have we, once poor mortal men, been more akin to gods. It is truly miraculous the world we have invented for ourselves and the reality we have forcefully bent to our undying will! For it is beyond interesting. It is inspiring and invigorating that at no […]
The Fall and Rise and Fall of a Founding Father It has long been the custom of civilized nations to adorn the memory of their founders with such quantities of marble, bronze, and reverence that no ordinary citizen dares inquire whether those gentlemen ever committed the smallest error. We are often instructed to regard them […]
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 […]
Created by Sean Dempsey with sources compiled by AI and some paragraphs tweaked by AI There is a scene in Titanic that ought to be carved over the entrance to every treasury department, congressional cloakroom, central bank, defense ministry, think tank, and marble-walled office where men with clean fingernails discuss the future sacrifices of people […]
by Sean Dempsey | June 25, 2026 It is a matter of great comfort to the people of the United States that, upon reaching the venerable age of two hundred and fifty years, the Republic has at last achieved the maturity of a venerable old man who loudly praises his cherished Bible, meanwhile cheating at […]
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 […]
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 USConstitution still existed, sealed, of course, […]