On Medium: Conservatism's Hollowness and the Ruse of the Political Spectrum

Here's an article on Roger Scruton, the oxymoron of "conservative thought," and why conservatism is best thought of as an instinct, not as an idea, since the idea of conservatism refutes itself.

On Medium: Why We’re All Spellbound by Myths

Here's an article on how the myth of the self makes us susceptible to religious and to secular fictions, and how those fictions are politicized, as in the case of Christian literalism.

On Medium: The Dread of Pantheistic Enlightenment

An article on whether transhuman enlightenment will be required to manage the pantheistic upshot of naturalism and to recapture the prehistoric animist's sense of wonder.

On Medium: The Wonder and the Rarity of Poems

The second of my articles on Amanda Gorman's phony poems, and on the difference between prose and poetry. The first one is here.

On Medium: Know Yourself and Renounce Self-Help Therapy

Read on about enlightened humility, the audacity of therapy culture, and why we shouldn't oversimplify the self's nature or expect easy answers in life.

A Critique of Libertarian Self-Ownership

Here's an article on personal freedom, morality, the market, and our existential predicament.

On Medium: Is There a Good Reason to be Christian?

Read on for a debate I had recently by email with a Bible-believing Christian, as he called himself.

On Medium: The Christian Ethos and the Primacy of Aesthetic Meaning

This article extrapolates from Yuval Harari's comparison between organized religions and business corporations, to deal with the fictions of our collective and personal brands.

On Medium: How Democratic Triangulation Drove Republicans into Trumpian Lunacy

Here's an article on centrist liberalism and the slide into a right-wing cult.

On Medium: There Was No Poem At Biden’s Inauguration

An article about how prose is passed off as poetry in an infantilized society.