By Sean Dempsey | 06/03/2026 There is, in the modern Republic, no more reliable method of discovering an honest man than observing how much money is required to destroy him. The obedient congressman, that cheerful little instrument of appropriations, authorizations, emergency supplementals, continuing resolutions, foreign aid packages, surveillance renewals, debt-ceiling evasions, and all the other […]
War, that most vain and venerated instrument of national pride, does not merely nudge the price of petrol upward, it rends asunder the delicate machinery of trade itself. Ships are halted, roads reduced to rubble, and the humble materials upon which industry depends are spirited away, so that fewer goods are fashioned while the public, […]
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. […]
