By Sean Dempsey, 7/15/23 ‘The lives of the benevolent are perhaps the most besieged.’ The Archbishop of Cheshire whispered madly into the darkness as he made his way between foul-smelling passageways and across dirty streets. Hot tears fell from his eyes and he beat his fists against stone walls as he trudged — almost stumbled […]
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, 6/25/23 Once upon a time in a far away land there lived a mercurial king. The people adored their king for the simple reason that he was their king. One day, driven by a peculiar whim, the King passed a decree that all citizens must wear a large hat adorned with a […]
