Culture Current Events

The GOP’s Macho Tantrum: Tough Talk is Cheap and Juvenile…Where are Results?

By Sean Dempsey February 12, 2026 Today’s Republican Party often resembles an 11-year-old boy’s action-figure fantasy. Many in the GOP base, predominantly angry men, are acting out a macho daydream: blustering about “toughness” toward enemies foreign and domestic. They thump their chests about cracking down on Iran, putting the boot on the head of illegal […]

Culture

The Innocents Among Us: An Analysis of the Human Spirit from Dostoevsky’s “The Idiot” to “Ted Lasso”

By Sean Dempsey, 03/23/25 “The main idea of the novel is to depict the positively good man. There is nothing more difficult than this in the world, especially nowadays… the task is immeasurable…” – Fyodor Dostoevsky In the intricate interplay of characters and their societal backdrops, the portrayal of characters imbued with an almost divine […]

Culture Current Events

The Myth of Constitutional America: How a Nation Betrayed Its Own Founding Document

To Those Just Now Waking Up—Where Have You Been? By Sean Dempsey, 3/20/25 Oh, so now you see it? Now, after decades of rampant government abuse, after endless wars, after a surveillance state that tracks your every move, after a Federal Reserve that devalues your savings into dust—now you’re realizing that the U.S. government doesn’t follow the Constitution? […]

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Postmodernists

The Postmodernists applaud when grifters and the mentally compromised enter women’s sports leagues. They call this “acceptance.” The Postmodernists applaud consumerism and the shaving of our gold coins; they label this “stimulus.” The Postmodernists celebrate child abusers who mutilate the fragile bodies and psyches of the impressionable young. They call this “progressive.” The Postmodernists bathe […]

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Culture Current Events

UVM Adds an Intervarsity Poker Club

BURLINGTON VT—This week the University of Vermont launched a new Texas Hold’em Poker Club for amateur card players and aspiring professionals alike. The new collegiate program boasts over a hundred and sixty-six members (a decade-long record for intervarsity extracurricular participation). The founders of the UVM Poker Club have a unique spin on the game that […]

Culture Philosophy

Plato’s Allegory of the Cave & Its Connection to the Present

by Sean Dempsey1/23/24 Plato’s allegory of the cave is one of the greatest stories of philosophy. It allows us to understand how the Greek philosophers once perceived the world. The tale involves a metaphorical explanation in which a human is faced with raw knowledge and unfiltered Truth. In his allegory, Plato explains how the existence […]