Read on about the atheist's positive task of grappling with the enigmas of how life could derive from nonlife, and thus what the nature of sheer lifelessness might be.
Here's an article about the amoral disparity between puberty’s onset and the brain’s maturation, and the clash between nature's preoccupation and humanistic morality.
Read on about the pejorative sense of "wokeness" and the danger of overprotecting some ideologues with a double standard of censorship.
Read on about what Shakespeare calls “Nature’s bastards,” the Romantic overcompensation for Christianity's demonization of nature, and the progressive revolt against wildness.
Read on about how maladjusted outsiders fantasize about tearing down wayward institutions, and thus how Trumpism may appeal even to idealistic outsiders who know better.
Here's a dialogue on nonduality, Western and Eastern views of enlightenment, and the implications of regarding our personal minds as misleading illusions.
Here's an article about a theodicy that expects a solid case for atheism, so the evidence for God would be ambiguous to leave room for a choice to exercise religious faith.
Here's an article about why the most plausible reason for the coverup of UFOs would also be the most terrifying, assuming for the sake of argument that there's been such a coverup.
Read on about secular humanism’s downside, the scientific objectification of people, and the postmodern distractions from our transhuman calling.
Read on about the pantheistic insight that alleviates alienation better than alternative views of our position in the world, such as theism, mysticism, and physicalism.
Read on about how the Republicans’ masterful sophistry suits the developed world’s culture of cynical relativism, so that Trump is the epitome of postmodernism.
Here's a dialogue about the postmodern obstacles to the overcoming of populist barbarism, and whether education can preserve our humanist principles of civility and critical thinking.
Here's an article about the problem with the “metamodern” oscillation that's supposed to mediate between modern confidence in reason, and postmodern doubt and cynicism.
Here's an article about how all relationships have natural endings, even Jews’ covenant with God, so that Judaism ends properly in something like secular humanism.
Read on about how feminists should answer the conservative's appeal to the natural differences between men and women, an appeal that's meant to justify sexist policies.
Here's an article about how the idea of God is a political metaphor that reflects the structure of the human mind, meaning that God is modelled on ordinary types of experience.
Read on about how conservatives have always been anti-modern, even those who seem to be part of the establishment rather than the counterculture.
