Metamodernism Uncensored

This episode explores Sean Dempsey’s 2025 novel The Lost Tapes of Doctor Michel Siffre not merely as a historical thriller, but as a profound cultural allegory for the spiritual condition of the modern West. While Michel Siffre was a real French geologist who famously isolated himself deep underground in the 1960s and 1970s to study human perception of time, Dempsey transforms those experiments in...

This episode of Metamodernism Uncensored asks the brutal question: when did America First become America Last? The hosts first dissect Donald Trump’s most sacred campaign promise (i.e. “no new wars!”) by walking through his own words from CPAC, the RNC, State College, and election night, where he repeatedly vowed to avoid foolish foreign wars and stop global conflict. They then contrast those prom...

What if the problem with our age is not that we are too naïve, but that we are no longer innocent enough to be saved? This episode puts Dostoevsky’s The Idiot and the AppleTV comedy Ted Lasso into philosophical combat, asking why one holy fool is destroyed by the world while the other somehow redeems it. Prince Myshkin enters a diseased Russian society armed with radical goodness, only to be humil...

This episode of Metamodernism Uncensored takes aim at what the hosts see as the widening gap between Donald Trump’s America First rhetoric and the reality of U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East. They argue that Trump’s recent statements about Iran and Israel sound less like independent presidential judgment and more like a repackaging of Israeli hardline talking points: regime change in Iran, a...

In this special rebroadcast episode of Metamodernism Uncensored , Sean Dempsey revisits a 2023 conversation from Brendan Graham Dempsey’s Metamodern Meaning Podcast, in which a wide-ranging brotherly dialogue unfolds on postmodernism, money, culture, morality, and the strange modern fiction we call “value.” Brendan and Sean explore what happens when value becomes detached from reality. The convers...

This episode of  Metamodernism Uncensored  features a deep-dive conversation between Sean Dempsey and Claire Brooks on the strategy, mechanics, and concrete victories of the Free State Project (FSP) in New Hampshire. Moving past the frustration of national politics—which the hosts liken to a "rooster crowing the sun into existence"—they argue that the physical concentration of liberty-minded activ...

Politicians call tariffs "economic patriotism." This episode calls them what they really are: a tax on your family disguised as punishment for someone else. Using history, economics, and a few uncomfortable examples, we examine the claim that tariffs protect American workers. The hosts argue instead that trade wars are self-inflicted wounds. They functionally perform to raise prices on everything...

Sean Dempsey's article "Metamodernism in The Age of Shifting Sand: Can a Broken World Build the Next Stable One?" serves as the foundation for a provocative discussion about whether today's social, economic, and cultural instability is actually laying the groundwork for a more stable future. The hosts argue that modern society has become untethered from traditional notions of tru...

Derek Fisher, a New Hampshire fisherman, spent 30 years building his business. Then the government destroyed it over a form filed a couple days late. In this episode, we examine the story of Derek Fisher, a commercial lobsterman who survived brutal weather, backbreaking labor, and decades of regulation—only to have his livelihood taken away after missing a paperwork deadline while medically incapa...

For generations, Americans were told that college was the surest path to success. This debate asks a heretical question: what if that promise has become one of the most expensive lies ever sold? Sean Dempsey and Nancy clash over soaring student debt, administrative bloat, and the real cost of higher education, from Yale’s staffing ratios to UC Berkeley’s stadium spending. The debate digs into whet...

In this episode, we tackle a provocative question that would have been considered heresy a generation ago: Has college become the biggest scam in America? Drawing on two essays written more than a decade apart, we examine the argument that higher education has transformed from a pathway to opportunity into a sprawling credentialing industry. The discussion explores how employers increasingly deman...

What happens when the one politician who actually votes the way he campaigns gets destroyed by his own movement? In this explosive episode, we examine the rise and fall of Congressman Thomas Massie… the man many supporters called the last true America First constitutionalist in Washington. While Republicans and Democrats alike voted for trillion-dollar spending bills, foreign aid packages, warrant...

In this episode of Metamodernism Uncensored , my two hosts explore a provocative question: Is cryptocurrency company MicroStrategy the posterchild for economic postmodernism? The conversation traces the evolution of money in the digital age, arguing that modern finance has increasingly embraced a worldview in which value is detached from tangible reality. From the abandonment of the gold standard...

New Hampshire businessman Sean Dempsey sits down with fellow entrepreneur Jason Summerfield to discuss a question that most investors would rather avoid: Are we staring down the biggest economic storm of our lifetimes, or is this just another round of doom-and-gloom predictions? The conversation is based on an article Sean published in January 2026, where he argued that the United States is facing...

In this episode, we peel back the layers of the official narrative surrounding the 2026 war with Iran to uncover the structural, historical, and geopolitical drivers actually pulling the strings. For years, the public has been told that a nuclear-armed Iran is an imminent threat requiring preemptive military action. But what if the data from our own intelligence agencies says otherwise? Drawing on...

In this debate, one side advocates for the Libertarian Party of New Hampshire (LPNH) and other other takes the side of the Libertarian Party (LP). The debaters square off over one of the most contentious controversies in modern libertarian politics: the disaffiliation of LPNH and the future direction of the broader libertarian movement. Representing the LPNH perspective, one side argues that the L...

In this episode, the hosts examine and critique Sean Dempsey's essay They Did Evil in the Eyes of the LORD , which explores the recurring biblical theme of Israel's kings falling into corruption, pride, and injustice. The discussion analyzes Dempsey's argument that the biblical books of Kings provide a timeless warning about the dangers of political power, nationalism, and tribal loyalty, while dr...

Did Corporate 'Wokeness' Hijack a Revolution? In this explosive interview from Sean Dempsey's 2024 book Trump Again?! How Could America Let This Happen? , Dempsey sits down with political activist, commentator, and grassroots organizer Kevin Maley to tackle a provocative question: Did America's largest corporations and financial institutions deliberately co-opt the energy of Occupy Wall Street to...

In chapter 9 of the 2024 book "Trump Again?! How Could America Let This Happen?", Sean Dempsey interviews New Hampshire businessman Timothy Baxter. This interview kicks off a debate of the topic around the content of the discussion/interview. Tim discusses his opposition to identity politics, characterizing the movement as a strategic tool used by political figures to prioritize collecti...

In his critically acclaimed 2024 political expose " Trump Again? How Could America Let This Happen? " Sean Dempsey examines the concept of 'Wokeism' through a Metamodern lens, exploring how language, identity, and political ideology have become deeply intertwined in contemporary culture. Drawing on George Orwell's warnings about the corruption of language, he critiques the ri...

Chapter 9 of Sean Dempsey's 2024 book "Trump Again?! How Could America Let This Happen?" explores the evolution of cultural paradigms, moving from the deconstructive nature of Postmodernism toward a more integrated framework called Metamodernism . The Sean Dempsey and his brother Brendan discuss how " Wokeism " may represent a simplified, often distorted version of academic...