by Sean Dempsey | 06/05/26 The Great Uncoupling We are living through a strange and exhausted age: an age in which almost every ancient anchor has been pulled from the seabed and cast adrift. Truth is no longer truth, but perspective. Morality is no longer morality, but preference. Value is no longer value, but momentum. […]
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 […]
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 […]
