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.