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.
Read on about what religious, libertarian, neoconservative, and traditional conservatives have in common, and the liberal's elite, possibly doomed social benchmarks.
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.
Read on about the subterfuge in Heritage’s definition of “conservatism,” and why American conservatives hide their medieval, prejudices behind modern liberal language.
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.
Here's an article about libertarianism's sanctification of capitalism, and Murray Rothbard’s faith-based construal of the Progressive Era.
Read on about Jewish counterculture, subversive monotheism, and the implications of the need to fear the Judeo-Christian God.
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.
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.
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.
Here's an article about alt-right resentment, and the Western conflict between feminine, relatively superficial, and masculine, sci-fi senses of social progress.
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.
Read on about whether Curtis Yarvin's New Right political principles--timelessness, neutrality, vitality, realism, and absolutism--are incoherent, neomedieval, or both.
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.
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.
Read on about the perversity of the Christian virtue of exercising faith rather than critical thinking, and the general role of stories in knowledge.
Read on about the anti-humanism behind Britannica’s diplomatic outline of “conservatism,” which shows how liberals tolerate conservatism by masking its anachronistic implications.
Read on about humanism, the egalitarian’s revolt against nature, and how conservative libertarians like Murray Rothbard have lost the plot of civilization.
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.
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.
Read on about the existential lesson to draw from Christian absurdities, given how the politicized Church betrayed the ethos of Christianity's foundational counterculture.
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.
Read on about the confusions and obfuscations of Christian nationalists, and about the phoniness of this politicized Evangelical religion in the United States.
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.
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.
Read on about Eastern Christianity, the call for a New New Atheism, and how conservative Christian politics is more threatening than fundamentalist theology.
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.
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.
Read on about some analogies for understanding the existential condition of being conscious, and why the conscious self is estranged from the physical universe.
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.
Read on about Evangelical Christianity, the cult of Trumpism, the conservative's authoritarian mindset, and the original sin of the Christian method of thinking.
Read on about the unspeakable medievalism of The Heritage Foundation's Project 2025, and how conservatism amounts to the promotion of medievalism.
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.
Read on about Mike Johnson's "seven core principles of conservatism," and why the real difference between conservatives and liberals shouldn’t surprise you.
