by Sean Dempsey, 04/03/2015 Tariffs Explained Tariffs, often sold as shields to protect a nation’s workers and industries, are in reality a cruel tax that falls hardest on the poor and middle class of the very country that levies them. Far from safeguarding prosperity, they distort markets, inflate prices, and erode purchasing power, as some […]
By Sean Dempsey, 07/20/25 Let no one say the following is allegory or invention. It is, I assure the reader, entirely true, having been performed not upon the floor of Parliament nor the pages of moralist tracts, but in a respectable laboratory, by a respectable scientist, using respectable mice. In the Year of our Lord […]
Why almost everyone (i.e. the uninformed, politically-ignorant masses) should stay home this November! Wearing an “I Voted” sticker on Election Day announces that you are a proud participant in the grand tradition of representative democracy, the worst system except all the others. It says “I care,” “I’m informed,” and perhaps also “this shirt is machine […]
