On Medium: How to Find Childlike Wonder in Your Writing

Read on about bliss, flow states, the long road to self-discovery, and how to fulfill our creative potential as writers, by connecting the act of writing to the search for deeper meaning.

On Medium: Enlightenment and Cosmic Horror

Read on about H.P. Lovecraft, existentialism, Eastern renunciation and escapism, and the dark side of modernity: the relevance of cosmic horror to philosophy.

On Medium: The Satirical Gist of the World’s Religions

Here's an article on how the satirical gist of the world’s religions is implicit in the Jewish bedrock of monotheistic religions and in the mystical subversion of worldly illusions.

On Medium: The Direct Democracy of Trump’s Cult

Here's an article on demagoguery, self-restraint, and Republican derangement: how the cult of Trump's GOP confirms the ancient Greek philosophical critique of democracy.

On Medium: The Lure of Chatty Writing

Here's an article on why writing needn't be confessional and editorials needn’t be autobiographical, contrary to the social butterfly's attempted takeover of intellectualism in the name of extroverted socialization.

On Medium: Father Casey’s Challenge to Find the Best Atheists

Here's an article on YouTuber Father Casey Cole's challenge for atheists to be the best they can be, and on the historical ironies of morality, progress, and reason.

On Medium: Why Democrats Are Inept At Politics

Here's an article on how politics as ideological warfare, psychopathy, infantilization, and the dream of post-political technocracy join together to emasculate Democrats.

On Medium: Anxiety and the Condemnation of Foolish Societies

Read on about how the limits of psychiatry are overcome by philosophy and religion, which provide the means of evaluating whole societies, including the self-destructive West.

On Medium: The Triumph of Jewish Comedy Over Monotheistic Brands

An article on making sense of the multiplicity of religions, by contrasting dystopian, monotheistic ones with humbler, less ambitious or satirical religious brands.

On Medium: Writing With Grit Against the Digital Tide

Read on to find the silver lining of late-modern writing’s futility.

On Medium: Beyond the Shibboleth of “Racism”

A politically incorrect analysis of racism and of the hard problem of cultural variety that's ignored by progressives and that should disturb white supremacists.

On Medium: Sex Between Minds: A Human Stamp On Our Animality

Read on about our sexual games of subjugation, the narrowmindedness of intimacy, and the impetus behind the ascetic revulsion towards them. 

This article follows up on "Romanticizing the Crudity of Sex."

On Medium: Buddhism and The Threat of Nihilism

Read on for an article about Buddhist pragmatism and the secular reconstruction of morality, and how the Buddhist's therapeutic coyness with metaphysics flirts with self-defeating nihilism.