Read on about the myopia of Chinese prudence and the necessity of nonrational ideals.
This article follows up on "Why China’s Pragmatism Should Haunt the West."
Read on about the myopia of Chinese prudence and the necessity of nonrational ideals.
This article follows up on "Why China’s Pragmatism Should Haunt the West."
I did an email interview with a writer, Sarah Simon, who came across my Medium articles on cultural infantilization, and her article which includes a broader discussion of the phenomenon along with my interpretations of it can be found here.
An article on the naturalization of Plato’s pessimism about nature: scientific dualism, the oversupply of digital content, and the trivialization of abundant being.
You can find an earlier take on this idea in "Horror for the Codes of Creation."
Read on about how philosophical doubts expose the effrontery of math textbooks, and how mathematical rules are game-like, contrary to the platonic conceits.
Here's an article on how modernity triumphs over obsolete religions, and on the need for religions to syncretize a viable rival to secularism, neoliberalism, materialism, consumerism, and the like.
An exploration of Chinese secularism and reason which lack the West's Christian underpinnings, including our individualistic delusions of grandeur.
Here's an article on modernity and the phony wisdom of wokeness, comparing the two types of alleged enlightenment.
Read on about Gnosticism, courtly love, hypermodern disenchantment, and the stories we tell to redeem the grotesqueness of the sex act.
Join me on a tour of Edward Feser’s casuistic word games and bigotries as we sort through his circular proofs for theism and his condemnation of homosexuality.
Read on about Machiavellian centrism, the secret weariness of progressives and Trumpian conservatives, and how American politics is nihilistic despite all the hot air.
Here's an article on the lullabies needed to transition from Trump’s desecrations to “centrist” normality.
Read on about the inexplicable pettiness of the Christian god, as shown by Paul's Epistle to the Romans.
Here's an article on why morality isn't as rational as game theory suggests, and why we shouldn't think of morality as prudence or as the result of bargaining or technocratic calculations.
Here's an article on why reason, autonomy, and creativity aren’t for everyone, and the freedom that makes for individuality is for social outsiders, for the elites and paupers.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Read on for a debate I had recently by email with a Bible-believing Christian, as he called himself.
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.
An article on why neither kind of Christianity is on safe ground, since progressive Christianity slides into secular humanism, and the evangelical kind is obtuse and self-refuting.
Read on about whether democracy is wise or foolish in breaking nature's quarantine, by potentially corrupting us all with a king's power of sovereignty over ourselves.
Another in a series of articles on the emptiness of conservative philosophy. This one's on how, contrary to the casuistry of Burke's conservatism, natural societies have no divine approval, and Christianity provides no reliable basis for social reform.
Read on to see how a contemptible religion can have sane and moral members.
This is in reply to the "thinking Christian" Tom Gilson's Stream article that picked up from our earlier debate on his blog.
A critique of Dillahunty's atheism and of the science-centered assumption that religion should be evidentiary as opposed to fundamentally—like all other worldviews.
In light of the Capitol Hill riot, read on about cultish zeal, warped Christianity, and the emasculation of white America, that is, about the sources of Trumpian conservatism.
As late-modernists, can we still justify our revulsion for murder? Read on as I play devil's advocate and take apart most of the reasons we'd likely offer.
This article is about how, judging from the content of their apologies, we pretend that the worst politicians can do is commit an innocent, absentminded mistake. We minimize their inherent vice.