On Medium: Quantum Wildness and the Newtonian Myth of a Natural Order

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.

On Medium: The Transhuman Judgment of Civilizations

Read on about why we should dispense with politically correct relativism in history and the social sciences, and judge societies according to transhuman standards.

On Medium: What God Would Allow Donald Trump to Thrive?

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.

On Medium: The Tempest in a Teapot for Pantheists

Read on about the trivial difference between pantheism and panentheism, given that pantheism should be based more on science than on theistic sensibilities.

On Medium: Yes, Trump’s Fascism Makes Him Conservative

Read on about why we should dispense with the ruse that conservatives are institutionalists since fascists rather present conservatism's unvarnished essence, namely medievalism.

On Medium: The Humanist Smackdown of Alt-Right Prejudices

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.

On Medium: The Impudence of Gardeners

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.

On Medium: Buddhas Aren’t Slaves to Saintliness

Read on about the subversive implications of the Buddhist repudiation of egoism, and the reconciling of Eastern and Western conceptions of enlightenment.

On Medium: The Sage’s Mission in a Harmonious Universe

Read on for a dialogue on alienation, renunciation, and the moral calling in Hindu monism and the secular Enlightenment.

On Medium: The Bitter Ironies of Historical Progress

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."

On Medium: Donald Trump is a Nietzschean Hero

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.

On Medium: Buddhas are Nihilist Observers, Not Compassionate Saints

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.

On Medium: The Atheistic Relevance of the World’s Many Religions

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.

On Medium: A Dialogue on Whether Societies are Built on Infinite Relations

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?

On Medium: Trump’s Second Term Gifts Liberals a Dark Night of the Soul

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. 

On Medium: Which Lives are Best-Lived or Wasted?

Read on as I question Joan Didion’s advice on seizing the moment, and consider the difference between rich, full and wasted lives.

On Medium: The Scientific Threat to the Consumer’s Atomistic Ethos

Read on about whether the world is made of relations rather than things, and whether a relationalist metaphysics undermines the liberal values of individualism.

On Medium: A Blockheaded Bureaucracy’s Futile Mischief

Read on about the gauntlet of self-publishing anthologies of web content on Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing.