The Libertarian Opposition is Rising…
By Sean Dempsey | 06/17/26 Somewhere in Washington, locked inside a mahogany box, wrapped in red ribbon, guarded by lawyers, lobbyists, oil executives, Gulf princes, cable-news shamans, and at least three retired generals who now sell Raytheon-flavored wisdom on television, there is allegedly a document. They call it a Memorandum of Understanding. Of course they […]
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 […]
Disclaimer: Information Sourced with much Assistance from AI | 06/08/26 There was a time, not very long ago, when “America First” meant something almost embarrassingly easy to understand. It meant that American soldiers would not be used as disposable pawns in foreign wars. It meant that Congress, not cable-news hosts, foreign lobbyists, donor-class billionaires, or […]
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 all of them possess the ever-inconvenient slight defect of being completely impossible. For example, some require the capture of Washington DC, that bile-filled swamp where reformers arrive as missionaries and depart as taxidermy. Others require a miraculous […]
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 […]
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 […]
by Sean Dempsey | 05/26/26 There was once a gentle farmer,From troubles borne was he—His eyes were wan, his spirits low;But he’d unload his woe for free. The farmer sighed a grievous sigh,And gazed on through the trees;“Come sit thee upon this stump,And hear the tale from me….” Pippin was a spotted hound,As dear as […]
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 […]