The Libertarian Opposition is Rising…
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 | 07/02/26 Never before in history have we, once poor mortal men, been more akin to gods. It is truly miraculous the world we have invented for ourselves and the reality we have forcefully bent to our undying will! For it is beyond interesting. It is inspiring and invigorating that at no […]
by Sean Dempsey | 06/14/26 There is a temptation, when discussing artificial intelligence, to speak of it as an accident: a clever tool that escaped the garage, a chatbot that wandered into the temple, a spreadsheet that began composing sonnets, a calculator that suddenly acquired opinions. This is comforting, because accidents do not indict us. […]
By Sean Dempsey For roughly two centuries, enlightened man was vainly assured that religion was simply a childhood illness from which civilization would eventually recover. God, so we were told, had served His temporary function. He had frightened the peasants into behaving, decorated the ceilings of Europe, inspired a tolerable amount of organ music, and […]
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. […]
by Sean Dempsey (Free State Mover #84) There are many plans for saving liberty in America, and most of them possess the grave defect of being impossible. Some require the capture of Washington, D.C., that enchanted swamp where reformers arrive as missionaries and depart as taxidermy. Others require a third party to awaken fifty states […]
by Sean Dempsey | 06/02/24 When I try to make sense of currency in the digital age, I start from a conviction that feels almost embarrassingly old-fashioned: money cannot survive without hard grounding; it must not subsist as mere style. It can be abstract, electronic, contractual, or symbolic, but it cannot be only mood. Philosophers […]
An excerpt from the book Trump Again? How Could America Let This Happen? (2024) by Sean Dempsey As illustrated in the previous chapters, Wokeism is often hard to properly describe or objectively criticize because of its over-reaching (and ever-changing) definition(s). “Woke” has to carry a lot of water for the Left because it has become […]
An Excerpt from Dempsey’s Book “Trump Again!? How Could America Let This Happen?” Third Rails: Religion & Politics It is not lost on this writer that faith-based discussions often land on “deaf ears” (or perhaps to keep the analogy I will say “blind eyes”). There is a reason why wise folks attest that in polite […]
Curated by Sean Dempsey (from other thought leaders) Since the CIA, State Department, and other U.S. intelligence agencies have confirmed countless times that Iran was not engaged in a nuclear weapons program, there are several competing theories for why the United States and Israel ultimately moved toward direct (unprovoked) war with Iran in 2025 despite […]