On Medium: Cosmic Perils and the Bright Side of Death

Read on about the existential importance of the shift from adult vanity to the enlightened humility of old age.

On Medium: A Sobering Look at the Self-Help Mindset

Read on about the sophistry that counts for wisdom in the shallow, neoliberal, self-help marketplace.

On Medium: The Conservative’s Bad-Faith Flight from Humanism

Here's an article that sorts through some old conservative rationalizations of tribal squalor and brutal oppression.

On Substack: Should All Pragmatists be Theists?

Here's a dialogue about the pragmatic case for theism.

On Medium: Does the Desire for God Show that God is Real?

Here's a dialogue on whether the strangeness of subjective experience indicates that reality is exactly as strange as God.

On Medium: Artistry Matters More than Truth in a Postmodern Society

Here's an article on Trumpism, AI slop, and the rise of aesthetic standards in an Orwellian nightmare.

On Medium: Religion's Coverups of Civilization’s Spiritual Purpose

Read on about the awe-inspiring, existential stakes of mundane tasks, and the best spirituality is based on the most realistic secular humanism.

On Medium: The Challenge for Enlightened Liberals

Here's an article about how our existential predicament constrains what counts as social progress.

On Medium: Atheists Should Welcome Christianity’s Secret Lesson

Here's an article about how organized Christianity prospered only because the world is absurd, which is a lesson atheism entails.

On Medium: The Scientistic Ruse of Hiding the Economist’s Morality

Read on about scientism and the role of moral philosophy in the economic evaluation of communism and capitalism.