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.

On Medium: The Gods of Philosophers and the Unwashed Masses

Read on about the difference between the God of philosophers and the God of average religious folks, and the problem with Bishop Barron’s dismissal of New Atheism.

On Medium: Jesus’s Counterculture and the Christian Abomination

Read on about the meaning of those who are “poor in spirit,” according to the Beatitudes, and how that divides the initial Jesus movement from the later organized religion.