On Medium: The Age-old Catholic Mastery of Disneyfication

Read on about how the Church sanitized Roman polytheism, neutralized esoteric Christianity, and practiced Disneyfication long before Walt Disney co-created Mickey Mouse.

On Medium: Mass Society’s Triumph Over Intellectuals

Here's an article about modern skirmishes in the ancient cold war between deep thinkers and the unreflective masses, and how liberalism gives the masses the upper hand.

On Medium: Tribalism and the Open Question of Love’s Moral Impact

Here's an article that contrasts the animality of family bonds with the unnaturalness of the moral perspective, to question whether romantic love has an overall moral impact.

On Medium: Christianity’s Kafkaesque Hell

Read on about how a Catholic apologist attempts to defend the indefensible, rationalizing the absurd problem that Jesus's sacrificial death is supposed to have solved.

On Medium: The Ancient Cold War Between Intellectuals and the Unreflective Masses

Here's an article about modern equality, Leo Strauss, and how thought leaders have always been torn between helping and withdrawing from the less reflective society.

On Medium: What it Means to Say Life is Absurd

Read on for a simple analogy that bypasses pretentious existential jargon, and shows how absurdity is about the clash between objective and subjective perspectives.

On Medium: Debunking Ben Shapiro’s Debunking of Atheism

Here's an article on freewill, theological rationalism, the universe's fine-tuning, the grounding of morality, and the fiasco of a salesman’s attempt to be philosophical.

On Medium: Is Romantic Love Immoral?

Read on about love’s biological function, the difference between eros and agape, and whether romantic love facilitates or hinders the moral enterprise.

On Medium: A Clash of Pantheisms

Here's an article about how to preserve humanistic morality after nature’s re-enchantment, and why we should be dualistic rather than monistic pantheists.

On Medium: Dan Foster’s Lame Test for the Divinity of Inner Voices

Read on about how even liberal theists mythologize the self’s internal divisions, mistaking unconscious suspicions or other inner promptings for divine messages.