Here's an article about the nature of Trump's big lies that can't be fruitfully fact-checked, and CNN’s smug pretentions about itself and the state of American democracy.
Wednesday, October 23, 2024
On Medium: The American Myth of the “Undecided Voter”
Read on about how corporate news media like CNN devise fake conflicts with the myth of the undecided voter to attract audiences to their infotainment.
Tuesday, October 22, 2024
On Medium: The Cosmic Horror in Psalm 8
Read on about Psalm 8's anticipation of HP Lovecraft's cosmic horror, the fear of our insignificance, and the cheap humanism that dispenses with existential dread.
Monday, October 21, 2024
On Medium: Is Progress Wise and Sustainable?
Here's a dialogue on environmentalist and secular humanist perspectives on our relation to nature, and whether secular humanism ends up being incoherent.
Thursday, October 17, 2024
On Medium: Thomas Paine and the Perils of “Natural Rights”
Read on about humanism, the conservative’s cherry-picking of natural norms, and the naturalistic fallacy of appealing to natural facts to ground human rights.
Wednesday, October 16, 2024
On Medium: The Ecstasy and Agony of Being Donald Trump
Here's an article about how lying all the time is easy, but living with the aftermath is hard, in which case being like Donald Trump would only superficially be the easiest thing in the world.
Tuesday, October 15, 2024
On Medium: Why Even Atheists Cry Out to God
Read on about the ploys for escaping the alienated brain, and how they lead to instinctive cries to a deity and to the indulgence in conspiracy theories.
Monday, October 14, 2024
On Medium: Why do Conservative Muslim Men Hate Women?
Read on about the irony and paradox of being attracted to women and simultaneously needing to loathe them on conservative, religious grounds in the Muslim world.
Thursday, October 10, 2024
On Medium: America’s Odd History of Close Elections
Read on about the strangeness of America's evenly matched political parties, and the corporate media’s role in sustaining the tight race between Harris and Trump.
Tuesday, October 8, 2024
On Medium: Plant Philosophy should be Rooted in Pantheism
Read on about how pantheism rather than Aristotle's teleology, panpsychism, or monotheism should help us understand the similarities between plant and animal behaviour.
Monday, October 7, 2024
On Medium: Is Progress a Revolt Against Nature’s Wildness?
Here's a dialogue on the implications of secular humanism for progress, transhumanism, and our existential relationship to nature.
Thursday, October 3, 2024
On Medium: GK Chesterton’s Sneaky Ode to Tradition
Here's an article about GK Chesterton's dubious insinuation that the logic of democracy entails conservativism, and why we shouldn’t mistake masterful rhetoric for a logical argument.
Wednesday, October 2, 2024
On Medium: Nature is Deaf to Our Gratitude for Being Alive
Read on about the cosmic flaw that inspires the tragic heroism of history, and the lengths to which we go to find someone to thank and to blame for our life's circumstances.
Monday, September 30, 2024
On Medium: Christianity is the World’s Strangest Religion
Read on about the irony of GK Chesterton's apologetical emphasis on Christianity's uniqueness since what this religion features is God’s death, which entails atheism.
Thursday, September 26, 2024
On Medium: The Natural Order Must be Metaphysically Disordered
Read on about why science can’t explain the whole of nature without positing yet more nature, and the disorder that must underlie the natural order.
On Medium: The Lameness of Roger Scruton’s Conservative Euphemisms
Here's an article about the conservative’s denial of progress and retreat to relativism, as shown by Roger Scruton's explanation of conservative principles.
Tuesday, September 24, 2024
On Medium: Is Christianity so Bizarre that it Must be True?
Here's an article about GK Chesterton’s flights of sophistical apologetics, including his argument against natural selection, and his case for Christianity's miraculous strangeness.
Friday, September 20, 2024
On Medium: Four Strains of Conservative Medievalism
Read on about what religious, libertarian, neoconservative, and traditional conservatives have in common, and the liberal's elite, possibly doomed social benchmarks.
Thursday, September 19, 2024
On Medium: Has Christian History Been a Unique Benefit?
Read on about Christianity’s impacts on history, and whether Christianity improved the West more than natural and secular norms compromised and tainted this religion.
Tuesday, September 17, 2024
On Medium: American Conservatives Keep Hiding Their Medieval Prejudices
Read on about the subterfuge in Heritage’s definition of “conservatism,” and why American conservatives hide their medieval, prejudices behind modern liberal language.
On Medium: None of Our Worldviews Matters to the Cosmos
Here's an article about the threat of epistemological nihilism to the meaningfulness and dignity of our worldviews, in the scope of deep space and time.
Friday, September 13, 2024
On Medium: The Libertarian’s Sanctification of Capitalism
Here's an article about libertarianism's sanctification of capitalism, and Murray Rothbard’s faith-based construal of the Progressive Era.
Thursday, September 12, 2024
On Medium: Christians Downplay the Need to Fear a Monstrous God
Read on about Jewish counterculture, subversive monotheism, and the implications of the need to fear the Judeo-Christian God.
Wednesday, September 11, 2024
On Medium: Conservativism Began with Edmund Burke’s Fallacies
Read on about Edmund Burke's foundational sophistries for conservatism, and how this political pseudo-philosophy has been muddled and sophistical ever since that period.
Monday, September 9, 2024
On Medium: Is Life an Absurd Game?
Read on about the question of life’s meaning, and how philosophy reconciles the possible nihilistic implications of science with the naïve sense of our self-worth.
Sunday, September 8, 2024
Eleventh Anthology on Amazon: Mirages in the Cosmic Wasteland
My eleventh anthology is available now on Amazon in paperback and eBook. Over 500 pages, it's called "Mirages in the Cosmic Wasteland," and it focusses on philosophy and religion. The twelfth anthology, focusing on society and politics is on the way.
Friday, September 6, 2024
On Medium: What’s the Fastest Way to Forge an Intergalactic Empire?
Here's an article about alt-right resentment, and the Western conflict between feminine, relatively superficial, and masculine, sci-fi senses of social progress.
Thursday, September 5, 2024
On Medium: Who is Humbler, Theists or Atheists?
Read on about whether theists or atheists have more pride or humility in arguing about God's existence, according to the Catholic apologist Brian Holdsworth.
Wednesday, September 4, 2024
On Medium: The Sci-Fi Allure of Curtis Yarvin’s Anarcho-Capitalism
Read on about whether Curtis Yarvin's New Right political principles--timelessness, neutrality, vitality, realism, and absolutism--are incoherent, neomedieval, or both.
On Medium: The Orwellian Gambit of Christian Nationalism
Here's an article about Russell Vought’s ruse for imposing a Christian theocracy on America, including his weaselly way of redefining the key terms so his view seems coherent.
Friday, August 30, 2024
On Medium: Even Atheists Can Denounce Evil
Read on about the problem of evil that's supposed to apply to atheists, and where morality fits into nature, contrary to the apologist’s cheap demonization of nonbelievers.
Wednesday, August 28, 2024
On Medium: Sanctifying the Crutch of Religious Faith
Read on about the perversity of the Christian virtue of exercising faith rather than critical thinking, and the general role of stories in knowledge.
Tuesday, August 27, 2024
On Medium: Conservatives Must Think People are Just Animals
Read on about the anti-humanism behind Britannica’s diplomatic outline of “conservatism,” which shows how liberals tolerate conservatism by masking its anachronistic implications.
Friday, August 23, 2024
On Medium: Murray Rothbard’s Incoherent Libertarian Screed
Read on about humanism, the egalitarian’s revolt against nature, and how conservative libertarians like Murray Rothbard have lost the plot of civilization.
Thursday, August 22, 2024
On Medium: No, Christians, Morality Isn’t Miraculous
Here's an article on how morality naturally develops, and why we shouldn’t oversimplify science and the natural order to make room for God.
Tuesday, August 20, 2024
On Medium: The Travesty of Christian Nationalism
Here's an article about Stephen Wolfe’s feeble, Thomistic case for modern Christian theocracy, and why such a theocracy would have to be imposed by force and sophistry.
Monday, August 19, 2024
On Medium: The Church’s Scandalous Betrayal of Jesus
Read on about the existential lesson to draw from Christian absurdities, given how the politicized Church betrayed the ethos of Christianity's foundational counterculture.
Thursday, August 15, 2024
On Medium: Catholic Obtuseness and Christianity’s Decline
Here's an article about the weakness of Catholic apologetics, the decline of Western Christianity, and the rise of secular standards by which even Christian apologists on YouTube abide.
Wednesday, August 14, 2024
On Medium: The Grotesque Conceits of Christian Nationalists
Read on about the confusions and obfuscations of Christian nationalists, and about the phoniness of this politicized Evangelical religion in the United States.
Tuesday, August 13, 2024
On Medium: Trouncing Yoram Hazony’s Nationalist Conservatism
Read on about why conservative principles always come to nothing, as in the case of Yoram Hazony's reformulation of nationalism in his attempt to make it consistent with liberalism.
Monday, August 12, 2024
On Medium: Modernity is Countercultural, So It’s Doomed
Read on about how secular humanism is fit only for elites who reject the ancient social norms, and how since elites are always rare, we should expect the modern period to fade.
Thursday, August 8, 2024
On Medium: The Call for an Atheist Counterattack Against Christian Nationalism
Read on about Eastern Christianity, the call for a New New Atheism, and how conservative Christian politics is more threatening than fundamentalist theology.
Wednesday, August 7, 2024
On Medium: Christians Should Reject Christ Along with Thor and Hermes
Read on about special pleading, the sophistry of Catholic apologetics, and what it means to say the atheist denies just one more god than the monotheist.
Tuesday, August 6, 2024
On Medium: A Failure of Gaslighting: The Decline of Project 2025
Here's an article about the superficial decline of the Heritage Foundation's Project 2025, and why conservatives must disguise the medievalism of their policy agenda.
Monday, August 5, 2024
On Medium: We’re All Ghosts Haunting Our Bodies
Read on about some analogies for understanding the existential condition of being conscious, and why the conscious self is estranged from the physical universe.
Thursday, August 1, 2024
On Medium: Warhammer 40k’s Grimdark Challenge to Humanists
Here's an article about the paradoxical combination of cosmic horror and human progress, and how the paradox is resolved with the concept of tragic heroism in nature.
Wednesday, July 31, 2024
On Medium: When the Cancer of Fundamentalism Migrates to Politics
Read on about Evangelical Christianity, the cult of Trumpism, the conservative's authoritarian mindset, and the original sin of the Christian method of thinking.
Tuesday, July 30, 2024
On Medium: There is No Conservative Philosophy
Read on about the unspeakable medievalism of The Heritage Foundation's Project 2025, and how conservatism amounts to the promotion of medievalism.
Monday, July 29, 2024
On Medium: Nature’s Creativity Proves the Downfall of Nihilism
Here's an article about pantheism, the threat of nihilism, the aesthetic perspective on life, and how a philosophical overview of science recovers life’s meaning.
Thursday, July 25, 2024
On Medium: Speaker Mike Johnson Hides the Medieval Essence of Conservatism
Read on about Mike Johnson's "seven core principles of conservatism," and why the real difference between conservatives and liberals shouldn’t surprise you.
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