The Libertarian Opposition is Rising…
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. […]
For roughly two centuries, the enlightened man was assured that religion was a childhood illness from which civilization would eventually recover. God, 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 then, having outlived His usefulness, […]
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 […]
J’Accuse this inept and corrupt administration! J’Accuse it not in defense of a foreign regime, nor in blind loyalty to any rival power, but in defense of TRUTH itself, which is forever the first casualty of dogged empire. J’Accuse those who would drape every reckless adventure abroad in the crimson flag of patriotism, as though […]
by Sean Dempsey03/01/2026 I staunchly believe President Trump should be impeached from office for war crimes and for violating his oath of office with respect to unilaterally waging a war without seeking authorization from Congress, as is constitutionally required under Article 1 Section 8 of the US Constitution. And, guess what? I also staunchly believe […]