On Medium: Jesus’s Counterculture and the Christian Abomination

Read on about the meaning of those who are “poor in spirit,” according to the Beatitudes, and how that divides the initial Jesus movement from the later organized religion.

On Medium: Scientists’ Mathematical Confusions about Natural Necessities

Here's an article about the need to pivot from quaint reassurances to cosmic horror, and how the emphasis on math in the hard sciences disinclines us to make that pivot.

On Medium: Corporations Are Our Superheroes

Read on about how large corporations infantilize consumers and spare them late-modern cynicism, effectively rescuing them from the downside of the postmodern condition.

On Medium: What is a Human Body if the Universe Must be Disembodied?

Here's an article about the cosmic perspective, the conventional use of reassuring illusions, and the paradox of our apparent embodiment in a necessarily disembodied universe.

On Medium: Music for Strong and Weak Generations

Read on to compare the music produced by bands and “solo” artists, and to see how generations grow up to different kinds of music, which strengthens or weakens them.

On Medium: There’s No Final Word in Art or Religion

Here's an article about the blasphemy of believing that religious scriptures convey absolute truths, and the implications of the fact that art is never completed but only abandoned.

On Medium: “Dark Enlightenment” and the Tragedy of Corporate Hubris

Read on about the odiousness of Nick Land’s anarcho-capitalism, and why governments shouldn't be treated as businesses.

On Medium: Atheists Make Better Modern Citizens Than Theists

Read on for an exposé of the Christian apologist Richard John Neuhaus’s confusions about whether theists make for better citizens than atheists.

On Medium: Alex O’Connor’s Agnosticism and Access Journalism

Here's an article about softball interviews, truth-telling, and Alex O'Connor's centrist, access journalism, which increases his audience but muddies the waters. 

On Medium: The Stubborn Confusion that Natural Events are Lawful

Read on about why “laws of nature” persists as a figure of speech in science, and the philosophical implications of that conception of natural patterns.