T. S. Eliot’s The Hollow Men and Sean Dempsey’s America, 2023 both confront the spiritual and moral decay of civilization, but they do so from opposite emotional poles. Eliot’s poem is elegiac: a whispered lament for a world hollowed out by inertia and disillusionment. His “stuffed men” drift without agency, trapped in the shadow between […]
by Sean Dempsey | March 23, 2026 Abstract: If Israel is God’s chosen people (and I devoutly believe they are), then why does their story so often read like a tragedy of leaders doing what is sublimely wicked? Stated another way, why does the biblical record return again and again to that solemn sentence, “he […]
