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 […]
Sean Dempsey’s short story “Justice” (which is an extract from his 2022 work “A Sad Collection of Short Stories, Cheap Parables, Amusing Anecdotes, & Covid-Inspired Bad Poetry”) works best when read not as a replacement for Kafka, but as a narrowing of Kafka’s nightmare. Kafka gives us the whole disease. Dempsey gives us the moment […]
Human rights advocates were floored on Monday night when NBC News published the details of an alarming Justice Department memo detailing the protocol for sending drones after United States citizens. It’s not as if they hadn’t suspected that the Obama administration’s top secret drone attack protocol contained some unsavory details. They just didn’t expect them […]
