The Libertarian Opposition is Rising…
By Sean Dempsey | 07/02/26 It is interesting, inspiring, and invigorating that at no other time in all of human history has truth mattered so little and the diligent construction of one’s own fantasy reality been so universally revered. Previous agess labored under the quaint superstition that the world existed independently of our preferences. They […]
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 instructed to regard them as […]
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 U.S. Constitution still existed, sealed inside […]
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 […]
by Sean Dempsey | 06/14/26 There is a temptation, when discussing artificial intelligence, to speak of it as an accident: a clever tool that escaped the garage, a chatbot that wandered into the temple, a spreadsheet that began composing sonnets, a calculator that suddenly acquired opinions. This is comforting, because accidents do not indict us. […]
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 […]