On Medium: Do Atheists and Theists have the Same Burden of Proof?

Read on about how historic shifts in default assumptions have stacked the deck against theists.

On Medium: Intimacy in “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind”

Here's an article about "Eternal Sunshine's" bittersweetness, how the movie's medium reflects its message, and the primacy of selfish love.

On Medium: Retreating to Faith When Struck by Unarmed “Militant” Atheism

Read on about why even “Backyard Church’s” easy-going Christianity is bad enough. 

This article responds to Eric Sentell's reply to my previous article on the feebleness of Dan Foster's ten arguments for Christian theism.

On Medium: Would Societal Collapse Degrade or Improve Us?

Here's an article about postapocalyptic fiction, original sin, and salvation by philosophy.

On Medium: The Rajneeshees’ Unmasking of American Hypocrisy in “Wild Wild Country”

Here's on article about how a documentary series shows that American culture is unlikely to be upgraded.

On Medium: An Atheist Eavesdrops on a Clash Between Christians

Here's an article on how to understand the conflict between classical theists and theistic personalists.

On Medium: Must Atheists Prove There’s No God?

Here's an article about how we play the odds with rational generalizations, due to the pragmatic side of atheistic epistemology, and why proof is irrelevant in nature. 

This is the first in a series on some confusions about the nature of atheism.

On Medium: Exposing the Sham of Televised Political Debates

Real on about narcissism, infantilization, and the fear of exposing the humiliating truth: why real debating is alien to politics and to television, but not to all new media.

On Medium: Existential Morality in “Crimes and Misdemeanors”

Read on about how Woody Allen wrestles with God’s absence in a rotten world: the argument from evil, and comic relief from the incel critique of conventional hypocrisy.

On Medium: Hyperreality In “Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain”

Read on about Bourdain’s life, suicide, and quasi-enlightened alienation from drugs, writing, travelling, filming, and fame.