The following is a clickable reading list that maps out this blog’s more recent articles, the ones I've been posting on Medium, and this list will be updated as I add new ones. I’ve tried to arrange the readings in a logical order so that the more general, central, or background readings come before the others in each category. The older articles can be found here.
Here's an article about why we seek political apocalypse and tire of routine mediocrities.
Read on about an analogy that shows how people are anomalies in the animal kingdom.
Read on about the pseudo-intellectual rhetoric that excuses the reversion to savagery.
Read on to compare the coping strategies for rational alienation, which are sex, civilized distractions, and artistic spirituality.
Read on to weigh the pragmatic, moral, and aesthetic comparisons of worldviews to determine whether religious cultures are better than irreligious ones.
Read on about the existential importance of the shift from adult vanity to the enlightened humility of old age.
Read on about the sophistry that counts for wisdom in the shallow, neoliberal, self-help marketplace.
Here's an article that sorts through some old conservative rationalizations of tribal squalor and brutal oppression.
Here's a dialogue about the pragmatic case for theism.
