On Medium: Why Conservatives Loved Eric Voegelin’s Take on Modern “Gnosticism”

Read on about the pseudo-intellectual rhetoric that excuses the reversion to savagery.

On Medium: The Top 3 Prizes in Nature’s Dangerous Game

Read on to compare the coping strategies for rational alienation, which are sex, civilized distractions, and artistic spirituality.

On Medium: Are Religions More Helpful than Godless Cultures?

Read on to weigh the pragmatic, moral, and aesthetic comparisons of worldviews to determine whether religious cultures are better than irreligious ones.

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.