On Medium: Stephen Hawking’s Confused Pantheism

Read on about how Stephen Hawking's pantheistic confusions about the "laws of nature" derive from Spinoza's theistic packaging of nature's impersonal creativity.

On Medium: The Wildness of Nature’s Subversive Creativity

Read on about entropy, the unnaturalness of progress, and the nonarbitrariness of cosmic horror and the conception of nature as fundamentally wild.

On Medium: Mark Carney’s Misplaced Faith in Trump’s Rationality

Read on about Adam Curtis's view that irrational reality surprises liberal intellectuals, and how this explains the futility of the Canadian Liberals' handling of Trump.

On Medium: Should Secular Philosophy be Rooted in Cosmic Horror?

Read on for a dialogue on whether a cynical, Lovecraftian view of nature makes sense and could ever support a mainstream culture.

On Medium: Faith, Forensics, and the Absurd in Christianity

Read on for a dialogue on the upside and the downside of Christianity's mystical emphasis on theological absurdities.

On Medium: Love is Nature’s Compensation for Cosmic Horror

Read on about how nature prefers farce to tragedy in life’s evolution, so pleasures evolve to balance the inevitable suffering from nature's absurdity.

On Medium: The Cosmic Negation of Infantile Presumptions

Read on about ancient and early modern forerunners to the cosmic horror genre, from Greek tragedy and Buddhist nihilism to the Marquis de Sade and HP Lovecraft.

On Medium: Where’s the Left-Wing Version of Trump in America?

Read on about centrism, the asymmetry of conservative and liberal radicalism, and how Trump revealed the duplicity and ineffectiveness of centrist Democrats.

On Medium: Peter Thiel’s Incoherent Propaganda

Here's an article about how a Silicon Valley titan tries to square the circle with libertarianism, conservatism, transhumanism, and Christianity.

On Medium: Modern Self-Deification and the Array of Religions

Here's an article about the ideological resources the world’s religions have for accommodating the modern rise of science and secular humanism.

On Medium: Trump’s Strange Aversion to War

Read on about the paradox of Trumpism’s incomplete monstrousness, and some explanations of how Trump and MAGA could be odious but strangely not eager for WWIII.

On Medium: Don’t Insult the Worldview that’s Home to My Mind

Here's an article about individualism, the futile debate between theists and atheists, and why we attach ourselves to our worldviews.

On Medium: Science Should be More Lovecraftian

Read on about the physicist Sean Carroll’s half-hearted undermining of human vanities, and the need for a sharpening of science's humanist ethos with cosmic horror.

On Medium: Napoleonic Cynics and the Pejorative Sense of “Ideology”

Read on about the dubious grounds for the pessimistic dismissal of idealists, stemming from Napoleon's infamous cynicism.

On Medium: Religious Fundamentalism Isn't Humiliating Enough

Here's an article on the need for a deflationary perspective in deconstructing fundamentalism and making peace with religion's humble, natural origins that ought to humiliate tribal literalists. 

On Medium: Conservatives Have Always Been Antimodern

Read on about how Donald Trump’s crassness is just gloves-off conservatism, and conservatives have always been opposed to modernity's humanist ethos.

On Medium: Is Civilisation Doomed Without Religion?

Read on for a dialogue on secular faith, postmodern meaning in a godless cosmos, and whether a secular humanist society can sustain itself in the long run.

On Medium: The Scientific Whitewashing of Nature

Here's an article on how scientists are caught between nature’s monstrousness and their humanistic ethos, so they're tempted to whitewash existential facts in their popularizations.

On Medium: Science Made Theism Archaic

Read on about the simple dynamic that makes most religions preposterous, as science undermines the intuitions that sustain the vain personification of ultimate causes.

On Medium: How Objective is Science?

Read on for a dialogue on structural realism, the limits of objectivity, and the potential for neo-animistic scientific projections onto nature.

On Medium: What’s Behind Big Tech’s Cult of Transhumanism?

Read on about the philosophical issues that the big tech billionaires and their fad’s propaganda ignore by highlighting the role of revolutionary technologies.