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.

On Medium: Bob Ross’s Mantras Tame Cthulhu

Read on about the Lovecraftian view of nature, and the secret of Bob Ross’s cult status as a painter of “happy” landscapes.

On Medium: The Myth of the Tranquil Sage

Read on for a dialogue on whether philosophy can make you happy, or whether philosophy is countercultural, so it alienates neo-prophets with subversive insights.

On Medium: Saint Paul’s Tribal Demonization of His Critics

Here's an article that exposes the numerous Christian fallacies in the first chapter of Romans, and how later apologists expand on them in response to atheists.

On Medium: There are No Relations in the Cosmic Monstrosity

Here's an article about neo-animism, nature’s pseudo-social causal relations, and the dubious slide from social relationships to nature's asocial "relations."

On Medium: Nature’s Art and the Whitewashing of Awe

Read on about secular humanist reverence, cosmic horror, and how the whitewashed version of awe is vulnerable to a critique that revives "awe's" original meaning. 

On Medium: Jordan Peterson’s Sophistry Against Atheism

Here's an article about the viral video in which young atheists trash Jordan Peterson's sophistry, and how to see through his obfuscation to what’s at stake in his psychological religion.

On Medium: The Clash Between American and Chinese Atheism

Read on about liberalism, authoritarian collectivism, the late-modern sidelining of religion, and the clash between American and Chinese versions of secularism.

On Medium: America’s Reasonable Dread of Progress

Read on about how Democratic urbanites and Republican ruralists opt for different escapes from nature’s grim reality.

On Medium: The Philosopher’s Inner Struggle

Here's an article about why the search for truth is opposed to the desire for happiness, and how the countercultural philosopher struggles with that conflict.

On Medium: The Meeting of Alien and Deluded Minds in Mahayana Buddhism

Read on about the clash between mysticism and pragmatism in the Lotus Sutra, and Buddhism's double truth doctrine for the enlightened and the unenlightened.

On Medium: The Irrelevance of New Atheists and Trumpian “Christians”

Here's an article about New Atheism's accomplishments, and the underlying conflict between fading American liberalism and China’s totalitarian atheism.

On Medium: Are We Many or One?

Read on for a dialogue on whether we're individual minds, or there's a single mind underlying our personal identities, and the pantheistic implications of computational thought experiments.

On Medium: The Counterproductive Love of Wisdom

Here's an article about the philosophy's downside, as shown by its history and social context, and whether philosophy's redeemed by some overriding advantage.

On Medium: The Internet Exposes Freedom’s Downside

Here's an article about the antisociality of social media, the flight to authoritarian regimes, and what the state of the internet tells us about liberalism's decline.

On Medium: Is God the All-Powerful Quantum Vacuum?

Here's a dialogue on the philosophical implications of a quantum mechanical view of nature, and the prospects of happiness for quantum resonances.

On Medium: Escaping Cosmic Dismay with Feel-Good Platitudes

Read on about a fallacy of gaslighting optimism that's based on dire premises, a sentimental fallacy found in what passes for philosophy on Instagram.

On Medium: Trumpism and the Rise of Meta-Christianity

Read on about how the medium is the message in Trump’s postmodern political cult, and Trumpism depends not on Christian theology, but theism's epistemological conceits.

On Medium: The War on the Universe’s Strangeness

Here's an article about how the brain develops cultural strategies such as religion for avoiding the implications of our inhuman, natural foundations.

On Medium: Is Justice a Lower-Class Conceit?

Here's a dialogue on whether history is progressive, or whether Trumpism shows we shouldn’t expect much social justice from history.

On Medium: Is Trumpism Ideological or Psychotic?

Here's an article about a superficial clash between explanations of Trump’s second presidential term, and whether his regime is guided by mental disorder or right-wing ideology.

On Medium: Civility as the Ghost in our Myriad Machines

Here's an article about how the apparent ghostliness of qualia transfers to the normativity of the cultural programs that run the civilized megamachine. 

On Medium: A Moral Quandary in a Speeding Bus

Read on about how empathy is a balm for our common haplessness, as illustrated by a personal anecdote about a moral dilemma on a speeding bus.

On Medium: The Incoherence of Basic Buddhism

Here's an article about the clash between early Buddhist naturalism and morality, and whether the Buddhist is committed to a double truth doctrine for insiders and outsiders.

On Medium: Can Philosophy Save Humanity?

Here's a dialogue on philosophy’s social potential and whether philosophers must be social outsiders or whether they can contribute directly to social progress.

On Medium: The Fear of Nature’s Impersonal Physicality

Read on about the naturalist's confused talk of nature’s lawfulness, which might compensate for our fear of nature's monstrous, impersonal physicality.

On Medium: Consciousness is Nature’s Warning that Living Things are Insurgents

Read on about the brain's relevance to the hard problem of consciousness, the uncanny valley, why we’re not all zombies, and life's rebellion against nature.

On Medium: No, Atheists Aren’t Illogical, Cowardly Boors and Bigots

Here's an article that corrects a crude caricature of atheism and delves into the epistemology that supports atheism and discounts the cheap pose of agnosticism.

On Medium: “Stand to Reason’s” Feeble Arguments for Theism

Read on for how to dispose of the moral and cosmological arguments for theism, and why Christian apologetics is a fraud.

On Medium: Qualia, Alienation, and the Brain’s Mental Simulations

Read on for a critique of Joscha Bach’s computational theory of consciousness that emphasizing the role of alienation from physical reality.

On Medium: God’s Dystopia and Nature’s Wild Origin

Here's an article that contrasts religious and godless models of nature’s inhuman enormity, showing how Plato's and Aristotle's dualisms speak to a wild disunity in nature.

On Medium: Should the Masses be Taught Philosophy?

Read on for a dialogue on the need for reason’s integration with intuition, and whether philosophers should be elitists or popularizers in dealing with the public.

On Medium: The Dread of Nature’s Lifeless Physical Energy

Read on about how the nature of scientific explanation entails a dark pantheistic evaluation that acknowledges the monstrousness of physical energy.

On Medium: Nature Includes Real Anomalies

Read on about the rise of organic deviations from the cosmic flow, and how the so-called unified natural order includes objective anomalies.

On Medium: A Silver Lining of Trumpian Madness

Read on about how the travesty of Trump’s hyperreality can inadvertently humble and enlighten us, by illustrating how all knowledge filters the facts.

On Medium: The Wisdom History Teaches Us

Read on for a dialogue on what liberals should learn from the global rise of authoritarianism, and whether history provides the wisdom to overcome this threat.

On Medium: The Horror of American Politics: All Dragons, No Knights

Here's an article on the nightmare that prepared Americans for Trump's authoritarianism and kakistocracy, and how Democrats can regain their honour.

On Medium: What is the Universe’s Godless Structure?

Read on about the role of mathematical abstraction in the absence of a divine plan, and the relevance of the two main senses of "structure" to metaphysics.

On Medium: Who Has the Self-Reinforcing Delusion, Theists or Atheists?

Here's an article that corrects the Catholic philosopher William Desmond’s confusions about godlessness and self-reinforcing presuppositions.

On Medium: Can Pantheists or Humanists Save our Dying Planet?

Read on for a dialogue on competing mindsets for addressing the ecological crisis, namely nature-worshipping pantheism and progress-seeking secular humanism.

On Medium: Christianity Turned Jesus into a Paper Tiger

Read on about how the Church’s brand nullified Jesus’s countercultural idealism to excuse the rise of godless Christendom.

On Medium: Morality is the Heroically Creative Use of Awe and Dread

Here's an article that recovers secular morality by combining the standard philosophies (virtue theory, deontology, utilitarianism, and existentialism).

On Medium: God, Atheism, and the Astonishing Fact that Nature Exists

Read on for a critique of William Desmond’s wonder-based, apologetical philosophy of religion and his conception of atheism as a presupposed ethos.

On Medium: Surveying Christianity’s Internal Conflicts

Read on for a dialogue on whether Christianity is deeply incoherent, given, for instance, how the deification of Jesus implies both monotheism and polytheism.

On Medium: Nature’s Otherness and the Consolation of Madness

Read on about the futile bridges of philosophy, science, mysticism, and horror fiction: by always simplifying to understand things, the facts always include a terrifying unknown or ignored side.