On Medium: The Subterfuge of Neoconservatives

Read on about philosophical elitism, esoteric and exoteric writing, Judaism, the Iraq War, and Leo Strauss’s rebranding of nihilistic conservatism.

On Medium: Is Self-Deception the Bedrock of All Knowledge?

Read on about how the inhuman cosmos negates childlike pretenses, exposing our treasured plain facts as a smorgasbord of distractions, vain conceits, and lies of omission.

On Medium: Russell Kirk’s Futile Principles of Conservatism

Here's an article that tests a deflationary take on conservatism against Kirk’s “canons of the conservative mind.”

On Medium: Stoic Pantheism and the Rise of the Alienated Sage

Here's an article that fortifies Stoicism with Existentialism, contrasts Stoic pantheism with an updated, non-anthropocentric kind, and critiques virtue ethics.

On Medium: Joseph de Maistre and Carl Schmitt: Conservatives Who Said the Quiet Part Out Loud

Here's an article about the theological excuses for monarchy and some crass rationales for tyranny.

On Medium: How Would a Saint or a Prophet Reply to Rude Online Comments?

Here's an article that imagines the mythic ideal of handling toxic online comment sections, and how to cope with the dead-end of trying to excel on a degrading platform.

On Medium: Help for the Fake Self-Help Industry

Here's an article that unravels the paradoxes of the self-help industry, and imagines what a sustainable and honourable form of self-improvement would look like.

On Medium: The Red Herring of Michael Oakeshott’s “Conservative Character”

Read on about how Oakeshott confuses instinctive conservatism or inductive reasoning with a distinctive politically conservative disposition, and about how the true conservative character affects politics.

On Medium: Rebuffing Ben Shapiro’s Sales Pitch for God and Liberty

Here's a critique of Ben Shapiro's history of Western philosophy, a history which he uses to motivate his Judaism and libertarianism.

On Medium: Putin’s Hypocrisy and What’s at Stake in the Rule of Law

Here's an article about the Russian-Ukraine crisis, elite cynicism, noble lies, and the essence of secular progress.

On Medium: Are Our Best Practices Evolved or Centrally Planned?

Read on about a conflict between aphorisms, the strengths and drawbacks of free and of centrally controlled societies, and whether liberal societies have a hidden agenda.

On Medium: Erotica and Some Hidden Meanings of Sex

Read on about the degradations of pornography to artsy musings on sex’s absurdity, and the philosophical hope for escape from animality.

On Medium: Spoiling “Backyard Church’s” Idyllic Barbecue

Here's an article that questions Christianity's viability in the modern period, despite the attempts by liberal Christians to sanitize and to neuter the religion.

On Medium: The Arbitrariness of George Will’s Conservatism

Here's an article on how to see through George Will's libertarian rebranding of Old World social Darwinism.