Here's an article about a theodicy that expects a solid case for atheism, so the evidence for God would be ambiguous to leave room for a choice to exercise religious faith.
Read on about two lessons that should be drawn about Medium and American politics, from a run-in I had with a shallow, complacent, fragile social justice warrior.
Here's an article about why the most plausible reason for the coverup of UFOs would also be the most terrifying, assuming for the sake of argument that there's been such a coverup.
Read on about secular humanism’s downside, the scientific objectification of people, and the postmodern distractions from our transhuman calling.
Read on about the pantheistic insight that alleviates alienation better than alternative views of our position in the world, such as theism, mysticism, and physicalism.
Read on about how the Republicans’ masterful sophistry suits the developed world’s culture of cynical relativism, so that Trump is the epitome of postmodernism.
Here's a dialogue about the postmodern obstacles to the overcoming of populist barbarism, and whether education can preserve our humanist principles of civility and critical thinking.
Here's an article about the problem with the “metamodern” oscillation that's supposed to mediate between modern confidence in reason, and postmodern doubt and cynicism.
Here's an article about how all relationships have natural endings, even Jews’ covenant with God, so that Judaism ends properly in something like secular humanism.
Read on about how feminists should answer the conservative's appeal to the natural differences between men and women, an appeal that's meant to justify sexist policies.
Here's an article about how the idea of God is a political metaphor that reflects the structure of the human mind, meaning that God is modelled on ordinary types of experience.
Read on about how conservatives have always been anti-modern, even those who seem to be part of the establishment rather than the counterculture.
Read on about the persistence of wildness in civility, the refusal to submit to natural facts, and how we simplify nature's unfathomability with ideological models.
Read on about why we should dispense with politically correct relativism in history and the social sciences, and judge societies according to transhuman standards.
Read on about how we can learn a lot about God or nature from Trump’s heinousness, depending on whether Trump's ultimate amoral source is supernatural or natural.
Read on about the trivial difference between pantheism and panentheism, given that pantheism should be based more on science than on theistic sensibilities.
Read on about why we should dispense with the ruse that conservatives are institutionalists since fascists rather present conservatism's unvarnished essence, namely medievalism.
Read on about the pettiness of conservative grievances in the cosmic scheme, and how secular humanists should respond to the best of alt-right conservatism.
Here's an article about how in progressing with wily techniques, we sever ourselves from nature’s appalling magic, and how tamed nature in suburban settings differs from the wild variety.
Read on about the subversive implications of the Buddhist repudiation of egoism, and the reconciling of Eastern and Western conceptions of enlightenment.
Read on for a dialogue on alienation, renunciation, and the moral calling in Hindu monism and the secular Enlightenment.
Here's an article about how we degrade and doom our descendants by overcoming harsh environments, and the humiliating cycle of historical ups and downs that results from "progress."
Read on about the core of why Trump’s victories are so disheartening, from a Nietzschean perspective that re-evaluates the so-called worst and best members of society.
Read on about the incoherence of the standard Western conception of Buddhism, and why enlightened Buddhists would be unattached even to selfless or moral desires.
Here's an article about a Catholic apologist’s obfuscation of the problems with monotheism, and the atheistic relevance of the fact that there are many religions.
Here's a dialogue I had with Pierz Newton-John about the implications of late-modern science for humanist values: is egoism as naïve as the Newtonian conception of atoms, if metaphysically there are only relations, not things?
Read on about a silver lining of the Trumpian apocalypse, as liberals must forge a sustainable humanist mission that forestalls the blowback of right-wing populism.
Read on as I question Joan Didion’s advice on seizing the moment, and consider the difference between rich, full and wasted lives.
Read on about whether the world is made of relations rather than things, and whether a relationalist metaphysics undermines the liberal values of individualism.
Read on about the gauntlet of self-publishing anthologies of web content on Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing.
Read on about why Democrats must understate the threat Trump poses, in calling him a mere "danger" because they laid the groundwork for the arrival of Trump's fascism.
Read on for an unvarnished look at America’s political dynamics, including Trump's strengths and Harris's weaknesses that might lead to a second Trump presidency.
Read on about oscillators, the brain's insufficiency, and how consciousness must be an amplification of nature's already pantheistically enchanted condition.
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.
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.
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.
Here's a dialogue on environmentalist and secular humanist perspectives on our relation to nature, and whether secular humanism ends up being incoherent.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Read on about how pantheism rather than Aristotle's teleology, panpsychism, or monotheism should help us understand the similarities between plant and animal behaviour.
Here's a dialogue on the implications of secular humanism for progress, transhumanism, and our existential relationship to nature.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
