On Medium: The Blind Lead the Blind in MAGA’s Idiocracy

Here's an article that exposes the feebleness of Ben Shapiro’s and Tucker Carlson’s “conservative principles.”

On Medium: Absurd Mismatches and the Desire for God

Read on about how the difference between religious and rationally enlightened personalities affects the theistic argument for the existence of God.

On Medium: The Mind of the Listicle Reader

Here's an article about why listicles are popular, and some of us nevertheless resent them.

On Substack: The Universe is Monstrous, Yet Scientists Adore Nature

Here's an article about the paradox of existential inauthenticity in the sciences, or how scientists tend to love nature, even as they're best poised to appreciate cosmic horror.

On Medium: A Paranoid End-of-the-Year Update

Read on for an end-of-the-year update about some signs that the universe may be telling me to stop writing.

On Medium: The Global Prominence of Bait-and-Switch Frauds

Read on about how to notice the hooks hiding behind the flashy lures in the normalized frauds of religion and capitalism.

On Medium: Friendship is Social Engineering for the Self-Help Crowd

Read on for a critique of the self-help industry and specifically Dale Carnegie’s foundational advice on how to increase profits by being friendly at work.

On Medium: Trump’s Grotesque Need for Gaslighting Isn’t Manly

Here's an article about how Trumpism isn't manly since Donald Trump skipped over the first step of being a Nietzschean hero.

On Medium: Hollow Philosophy and the Call for Neoshamans

Read on about scientism, the capitalist race to the bottom, and the question of liberalism’s sustainability.

On Medium: The Melancholia Industry for the Rest of Us

Read on about how self-help consumerism is for some and visionary art is for others.

On Medium: The Audience’s Capture of Medium’s Curators

Here's an article that solves the mystery of the recent shift in Medium's boosting criteria.

On Substack: The Profound Mystery of a Godless Natural Order

Read on about why there are no viable scientific or religious answers to the question of why or how a natural order came into being.

On Medium: Improve Yourself by Earning Melancholy

Here's an article about the happiness industry and the countercultural obligation to maximize enlightening alienation, not childish contentment.

On Medium: Turn Your Cynicism Into Wonder

Read on about how to recover the realization that all things are fundamentally strange and sacred, and how cynicism can be converted into wonder.

On Medium: The Mirage of Facts in a Desert of Storytelling

Read on about the question of what’s more fundamental, storytelling or objective knowledge, and whether the possibility of objective truth is the deepest fiction.

On Medium: Tourette Syndrome and the Acquaintance with Absurdity

Read on about the extent to which your personal background might be relevant to the philosophical evaluation of your worldview.

On Medium: Civility has Already Automated Our Jobs and Public Lives

Here's an article about big-city dehumanization, the faux pas of giving “too much information,” and the social scripts that automate our behaviour to cover up our existential condition.

On Medium: The Disgrace of the Happy Adult

Here's an article that critiques the self-improvement and happiness industries, and asks what’s better than joy and contentment in an unjust, absurd world.