On Medium: Is Deadpool the Most Enlightened Superhero?

Read on about comic book subversions and the dread of superpowers: from WWII propaganda and Nietzschean transhumanism to psychedelics and posthuman enlightenment.

On Medium: Revelatory Monologues in “Amanda Knox”

Here's an article on how a documentary uses its characters’ vices against them to present the deeper truth.

On Medium: The Feebleness of “Backyard Church’s” Ten Arguments for Theism

Explore what happens when a hapless Christian runs the gauntlet of reason.

On Medium: Outcasts in Cinema: “Saint Maud,” “Kajillionaire,” and “Nomadland”

Read on about how pop culture reckons with its excesses and victims.

On Medium: The Toothless Rage of Vaccinated Americans

An article about infantilization, hypocrisy, and the lopsided radicalism in the American culture war: why Democrats are so easy for bad-faith Republicans to troll.

On Medium: Depths of Subversion in “The Green Knight”

An article that explores the movie’s somewhat muddled post-Christian themes, including chivalry, Gnosticism, paganism, deep ecology, and feminism.

On Medium: From Pipe to Software: “Brazil” and the Evolution of Bureaucracies

Read on about the mechanisms of total control, and the relevance of Terry Gilliam's movie to a paperless dystopia.

On Medium: Tyranny and the Horror of Being God

Here's a thought experiment of recognizing the plight of being a deity, and how human tyrannies reflect the relation God would have to the world he created.

On Medium: How Religions Suppress Spiritual Epiphanies

Read on about religious divisions, existential unity, and the secret of entheogens: why religions are against real religious experiences (peak states of consciousness).

On Medium: Why Art Shouldn’t be Bought or Sold

Read on about art's ancient relevance to our existential mission, and capitalism’s degradation of artists in the pyramid schemes of showbusiness and the gig economy.

On Medium: Why the Evolution of Religion Should Worry Believers

An article about the telltale history of religions and why we should compare religious sanctimony with secular hubris.

On Medium: How to Defuse Trumpian Trolling on Vaccines

Read on for why Trumpian anti-vaxxers are only trolling and why they should be treated by intellectual elites like "acts of God" or like wayward children throwing a tantrum.