On Medium: Trump’s Second Term Gifts Liberals a Dark Night of the Soul

Read on about a silver lining of the Trumpian apocalypse, as liberals must forge a sustainable humanist mission that forestalls the blowback of right-wing populism. 

On Medium: Which Lives are Best-Lived or Wasted?

Read on as I question Joan Didion’s advice on seizing the moment, and consider the difference between rich, full and wasted lives.

On Medium: The Scientific Threat to the Consumer’s Atomistic Ethos

Read on about whether the world is made of relations rather than things, and whether a relationalist metaphysics undermines the liberal values of individualism.

On Medium: A Blockheaded Bureaucracy’s Futile Mischief

Read on about the gauntlet of self-publishing anthologies of web content on Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing.

On Medium: Blame Effete Democrats’ Hollowness if Trump Beats Harris

Read on about why Democrats must understate the threat Trump poses, in calling him a mere "danger" because they laid the groundwork for the arrival of Trump's fascism.

On Medium: The Sordid Reasons Why Trump Might Win the 2024 Election

Read on for an unvarnished look at America’s political dynamics, including Trump's strengths and Harris's weaknesses that might lead to a second Trump presidency.

On Medium: Pygmy Marmosets Hold the Secret to Consciousness

Read on about oscillators, the brain's insufficiency, and how consciousness must be an amplification of nature's already pantheistically enchanted condition.

On Medium: The Farce of Fact-Checking a Hyperreality

Here's an article about the nature of Trump's big lies that can't be fruitfully fact-checked, and CNN’s smug pretentions about itself and the state of American democracy.

On Medium: The American Myth of the “Undecided Voter”

Read on about how corporate news media like CNN devise fake conflicts with the myth of the undecided voter to attract audiences to their infotainment.

On Medium: The Cosmic Horror in Psalm 8

Read on about Psalm 8's anticipation of HP Lovecraft's cosmic horror, the fear of our insignificance, and the cheap humanism that dispenses with existential dread.