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.