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.

On Medium: The Claptrap of “Trump Derangement Syndrome”

Here's an article that exposes the laziness of Republicans’ Orwellian gaslighting about their critics' supposed mental disorder of noticing the egregiousness of American conservatism.

On Medium: Big Tech Tribalism Crowds Out Science’s Humanist Ethos

Here's an article about the irony of capitalism’s neofeudal impact on society, and the clash between science's humanism and capitalism's fostering of tribalism.

On Medium: The Technological Test of Human Pride

Here's an article about how technological progress inadvertently puts to the test liberal myths since if machines and AI can replace us, there's no basis for human pride.

On Medium: Prehistoric Anarchists, Civilized Masters and Slaves, and Alienated Posthumans

Read on about the history of our shifting environments, from the wilderness, to semi-artificial and automated societies, to fully-automated ones that make us obsolete.

On Medium: From Eckhart Tolle’s “Power of Now” to the Horror of Nature

Read on about pantheism, the artist’s perspective on perceptions, and the horror of recognizing the mindless artistry behind the qualia found in any present moment.

On Medium: The Lame Pearl-Clutching After the Attempted Assassination of Trump

Here's an article about the elite liberals' lame reaction to the near assassination of Trump, and how Democrats need Superman now to defeat Trump’s bid for reelection.

On Medium: Cosmic Neutrality and the Paradox of the Bodhisattva’s Virtue

Read on about the difference between philosophical and politically correct understandings of Buddhism, and how the enlightened Buddhist should be as inhuman as the universe.

On Medium: Psychopathy is the Linchpin of Civilizations

Here's an article about the history of how urban environments have sorted us like wild animals because psychopaths were needed initially to promote and to secure states.

On Medium: Should an Immune Biden Order Trump’s Assassination?

Here's an article about the potential for exquisite poetic justice for Trump, and how the Trumpian Supreme Court revealed there’s no such thing as conservative legal philosophy.

On Medium: Trump is a Flawless American Christian

Read on about how Trump is methodically, if not doctrinally a Christian, and how Christianity perverted itself for centuries so Evangelicals could idolize Trump.

On Medium: The Quixotic Quest for Cosmic Progress

Here's an article about humanist aspirations for progress, the disappointments of history, and whether an anti-natural stance is even metaphysically possible.

On Medium: Trendy Liberals are Too Tribal to Help Us All Progress

Here's an article about climate’s impact on culture, the burden of politically correct niceties, and why science should be evaluated on humanistic, not tribal grounds.

On Medium: The Debacle of the Biden-Trump Debate

Read on about self-sabotaging Democrats, the road to the American apocalypse, and the full extent of Biden's failure in his June 2024 debate with Trump.

On Medium: The Contrivance of the Risen Jesus’s Short Time on Earth

Here's an article about the suspicious interval that accounts for why the risen Jesus didn't remain longer to provide better evidence for Christianity in the long run.

On Medium: Enlightened Buddhists Shouldn’t be Compassionate

Read on about innocuous epiphanies, the false front of Buddhist morality, and whether the nihilism of adopting the cosmic perspective is fit only for transhumans.

On Medium: The Neoshamans of Standup Comedy

Here's an article about the neoshamanic role of the standup comedian, a taboo-breaker who heroically prompts us to laugh at our absurd existential condition.

On Medium: Trump’s an Avatar of Nature’s Inhumanity

Read on about the cosmic roles of liberalism and conservativism, and why it's a gross understatement to say that Trump poses an "inappropriate" "danger" to democracy.

On Medium: No, Secular Humanists Don’t Owe Their Morals to Christianity

Here's an article that lambastes Tom Holland’s specious remarks on liberalism and the American culture war, in his book Dominion, and why humanism doesn't depend on Christianity.

On Medium: The World Can be Sacred to Atheists Too

Read on about how atheists needn't deny the validity of a spiritual relationship to the world's sacredness, contrary to John Vervaeke’s weaselly resort to “nontheism.”

On Medium: Art’s Purpose When AIs Generate All Possible Contents

Read on about why human artists will carry on even when AIs dwarf human abilities by producing all possible human art and storing it on a mighty thumb drive.

On Medium: Trump’s the Worst and the Best Nominee for American President

Read on about the paradox of how Trump is both the worst and the best nominee for American president, to gain insight into American culture and politics.

On Medium: The Perverse Thanking of Christendom for Modern Progress

Here's an article that exposes the fallacies and sophistries from Tom Holland’s book Dominion about how modern secular progress derives exclusively from Christendom.

On Medium: Prophets and Saints are Always on Their Death Bed

Read on about how only few of us train for dying with “spiritual” philosophy, by keeping in mind the subversive awareness of our dire existential condition.

On Medium: Trump’s Hyperreality and the Dread of Culture Creation

Read on about the naivety of Democrats’ fascination with Trump’s mere “lies,” and Trump's superpower of creating the hyperreality of a conservative culture.

On Medium: Catholic Sanctimony and the Alleged Naturalness of Moral law

Here's an article on the Catholic Catechism’s lame attempt to assimilate ancient Greco-Roman philosophy, resulting in the dubious and offensive natural moral law theory.

On Medium: What is Life’s Cosmic Role?

Read on about the mystic's obligation to explain whether we're slaves to nature’s evolution, trapped in some cosmic role, or bridges to an unnatural order.

On Medium: The Clash Between Daoists, Buddhists, and Modern Humanists

Here's an article that compares some countercultural and mainstream philosophies, showing how secular humanism is a counter-revolt against neoshamanic criticisms of civilized social conventions.

On Medium: There is No Pure Adulthood for Civilized Folks

Here's an article about the different types of childishness and maturity for society’s losers and winners, or for the countercultural outsiders and the mainstream professionals.

On Medium: Why are the Planet’s Hottest Places Still War Torn?

Read on about the hypothesis that climate affects our ability to think well, which accounts for why military conflicts are currently concentrated in the planets' tropical regions.

On Medium: The Daoist’s Futile Rejection of Humanism

Here's an article about the ironies and double standards of Daoism, and how human progress is possible in nature despite the Daoist’s implicit nihilism.

On Medium: The Social Butterfly’s Flight from Atheism

Read on about the difference between socializing and philosophical atheists, and how politicized atheism drives out secularists who lack philosophical grounding.

On Medium: Do the Enlightened Few have Moral Obligations?

Here's a dialogue on whether wisdom entails the renunciation of vulgar norms, and specifically whether traditional or modern sages should indulge in sex.

On Medium: The Ironic Nostalgia for Childhood Naivety

Read on about the irony of nostalgia for the joys and freedoms of childhood since most adults are more childish than they presume.

On Medium: Confronting an Islamist Diatribe Against Modernity

Read on about how despite the flaws of modern progress in America and Israel, the Islamist invitation to return to medieval-style traditions should be unwelcome.

On Medium: Is America being Punished with a Dark Age for Abandoning its "Christian" Roots?

Here's an article that sorts through a Christian nationalist’s doubletalk, showing how modern conservatives rationalize their Trumpism with gross distortions of history and theology.

On Medium: Jordan Peterson Thinks Atheism is Groundless

Read on to sort through some of Jordan Peterson's conservative confusions and sophistries about religion to see why atheism is far from currently groundless.

On Medium: Who’s More Enlightened, Meditating Monks or Progressive Industrialists?

Here’s a dialogue I had over email about religious and secular humanistic conceptions of enlightenment.

On Medium: Left-Wing Decadence and the Return of Matriarchal Culture

Read on about corporate and technological infantilization of consumers, and why that process might be complemented by a surge of matriarchal, feminine values.

On Medium: The Charade of the “Pro-Life” Stance on Abortion

Here's an article about the conservative's sophistries about the abortion of fetuses, and why we humour the conservative’s toothless threats against modernity.

On Medium: Larry David: A Scapegoated Jewish Antihero

Read on about the hidden meanings of Judaism and of "Curb Your Enthusiasm," and the fate of the indignant satirist who thwarts a Kafkaesque bureaucracy.

On Medium: Is Moral Cooperation Rooted in Nature’s Productivity?

Read on about the progressive revolt against natural norms, and whether game theory shows that morality only repurposes the productivity built into nature's mathematical order.

On Medium: What if the Universe is All in God’s Head?

Here's an article that tests the merits of naturalism and metaphysical idealism, asking whether matter is real or whether only minds and their contents exist.

On Medium: Techno-Toys Don’t Make the Transhuman

Read on about the message of transhumanist science fiction that hides in plain sight since these stories are about secular humanism's impact on us and the planet here and now.

On Medium: Dispense with the Confused Ambition of Earning “F-You Money”

Here's an article about the popular goal of earning financial independence as a way to brush off social demands, and why the poor are likely mentally freer than the rich.

On Medium: The Terrors of Outer Space and Deep Time

Read on about how the source of cosmic horror is surprisingly something near and familiar, namely our conscious self, not the remoteness of faraway places or times.

On Medium: When Misanthropes Claim the Moral High Ground

Here's an article about the perversity and incoherence of preachy antinatalism, and how moralistic misanthropes resemble Hippies who want to retain their idealism even after their experience and worldview exclude it.

On Medium: Trumpian Israel Meets Arab Medievalism

Here's an article about Israel's Trumpian regime, the Muslim world's medievalism, and how to see past the Western Left’s one-sided assessment of the Israel-Hamas conflict.

On Medium: Decrying the Prosperity Gospel of Americanized Christianity

Read on about how Joel Osteen's Americanized prosperity gospel is just one more mainstream debasement of Jesus’s subversive ethos.

On Medium: The Prospect of Tragic Heroism in the Cosmic Scheme

Here's an article about why we should begin philosophizing by contemplating the worst-case existential scenario since that raises the stakes of our potential heroism.