On Medium: The Divine Object that’s Mistaken for God

Here's a dialogue on whether there's a viable middle ground in using religious symbols, between being overly literalistic and objective in conceiving of God.

On Medium: The So-Called Elite Conception of God

Read on about how to dispense with David Bentley Hart’s classical theism and his so-called sophisticated, philosophical conception of God.

On Medium: Everyone’s Enlightened When They’re Dying

Read on about the shift from conventional to death-oriented perspectives that deflates the religious distinction between the profane and the sacred world orders.

On Medium: Is Nature Metaphysically Wild?

Here's a dialogue on whether there's an objective, informative sense in which nature is metaphysically wild.

On Medium: The Ground of All Beings and the Question of Atheism’s Absurdity

Here's an article that critiques the classical theist David Bentley Hart’s caricature of philosophical naturalism, the view that there are no supernatural miracles.

On Medium: Why Conservatism Still Exists in the Liberal Age

Here's an article about the clash between natural norms and cults of progress, a clash that accounts for why conservatism still exists, and why liberals are inept at politics.

On Medium: Touch Grass to Find God; Touch Concrete to Find Atheism

Read on about how religion and humanism are cultural adaptations to opposite environments, so that religion worked best when people lived in wild nature.

On Medium: Crocodile Tears for Cultural Christianity

Read on about the obvious problem with Russell Moore’s case against Richard Dawkins’ co-opting of Christianity, in "Christianity Today."

On Medium: The Secular Humanist’s Ontology

Read on about nature’s wildness, the language game of metaphysics, and the search for the secular humanist's broadest categories.

On Medium: There Will be No Manly Transhumans

Here's an article about whether technological progress is opposed to manly virtues, so that power and manliness are inversely related, and there will be no manly transhumans.

On Medium: From the Age of Reason to Postmodern Sophistry

Here's an article about the developed world's transition to postmodernity and how we awoke from the naïve “modern” dream of rational progress.

On Medium: Postmodern Trump and his Absolute Evil

Read on about the paradoxical combination of Trump's postmodern, post-truth character, and his absolutely evil behaviour.

On Medium: The Folly of Running Society like a Corporation

Here's an article about libertarian fantasies, Curtis Yarvin’s CEO-monarchs, and capitalism’s humanist purpose.

On Medium: The Philosophical Relevance of Science Fiction

Read on about science fiction's philosophical role in a humanist outlook, which is that SF narratives present us with a secular substitute for myth and theology.

On Medium: The Universe is Transcendentally Monstrous

Read on about how the scientific objectification of nature leaves us with philosophical and existential obligations to reckon with the cosmic wilderness.

On Medium: Alienated Intellectuals aren’t Fully Alive

Read on about the extravert’s rejoinder to elitist introverts, which is that the introvert occupies a deathly state that isn't fully committed to life's routines.

On Medium: Science Doesn’t Show that Life is Meaningless

Read on about the collapse of Western teleology, the rise of aesthetic humanism, how the Western meaning crisis occurred, and how it can be averted.

On Medium: Social Media and the Triumph of Extraverted Shallowness

Here's an article about how introspection isn’t to blame for the rise of parasocial relationships since there's more to introversion than being alone.

On Medium: The Divergent Countercultures of Socrates and Jesus

Read on about Jewish satire, Platonic humanism, Christian one-upmanship, and how Christians used the Socratic model as a foil to promote a Jewish prophet.

On Medium: The Philosopher’s Role in Shepherding High Culture through a Dark Age

Here's an article about neoshamanic explorations, intellectual luxuries, the retreat to religion, and whether philosophers would be needed to preserve knowledge in a dark age.

On Medium: Scrutinizing the Secular Humanistic Meaning of Life

Read on for a dialogue on how humanists approach the question of whether life has a purpose, and how theists challenge the secular lifestyle.

On Medium: Free Will is Possible Because Wild Nature Tries Everything

Read on about the emergence of minds, civilizations, and liberated social classes, and the levels of human freedom that nature's wildness makes possible.

On Medium: “Wokeness” and the Corruption of Liberalism

Read on for a dialogue on whether liberalism has gone awry or late-modern social justice advocates are only being unfairly and counterproductively maligned.

On Medium: Scrutinizing the Religious Meaning of Life

Read on for a dialogue on how theistic religions approach the question of what we should be doing in life, and whether religions can support the contention that human life has a purpose.

On Medium: Trump’s Belittling of Canada and Obsolete Liberals

Here's an article about the trolling and bullying of what the US was supposed to be, as President Trump shows in bullying Canada that he doesn't understand what friends are.

On Medium: When Philosophers and Scientists Squabble about the Meaning Crisis

Read on about how John Vervaeke minimizes the philosophical reasons for alienation, in taking the meaning crisis to be a problem mainly for psychologists and therapists.

On Medium: Modernity Secularizes the Axial Age’s Moral Absolutes

Here's an article about the varieties of progress from apocalyptic judgments to technoscientific advances, and how the modern world secularizes ancient revolutions.

On Medium: The Internet’s Role in Fostering Postmodern Nihilism

Read on for a dialogue on the internet's role in our descent into the postmodern condition, and potential remedies for late-modern angst and cynicism. 

On Medium: God’s Pearls Cast Before Human Swine

Here's an article about how the notion of divine revelation makes no sense since God would just be casting the pearls of his wisdom before human "swine."

On Medium: Can Humanism Solve the ‘Meaning Crisis?’

Read on for a dialogue about whether secular humanism has the resources to address the existential meaning crisis of modernity.

On Medium: A Backdoor Solution to the Hard Problem of Consciousness

Read on about a pantheistic reframing of the mystery of subjectivity, and some Western biases that make consciousness seem so bizarre. 

On Medium: Why Conservatives Only Grudgingly Approve of Modernity

Read on about the essential difference between conservatism and liberalism, and why conservatives should be grateful when liberal institutions go wrong.

On Medium: Who has the Best Takedown of Toxic “Wokeness”?

Here's a dialogue on the best grounds for criticizing some social justice advocates’ tribal distortion of liberalism: Christianity or secular humanism.

On Medium: Family Values and Individualism: The Conservative’s Hodgepodge

Read on about how the conservative's resort to familism preserves medieval prejudices and elite psychopathy, and conflicts with the individualism needed for capitalism.

On Medium: The Peril of Taking Comfort in Alien Norms

Read on about how routines reassure us, even as this paradigm is set by the paranoid fear of nature's wild reality that surpasses our self-serving inductive generalizations.

On Medium: The Capitalist Tyranny of Extraversion

Read on about how the social preference for the young over the old, men over women, or extraverts over introverts amounts to a structural cause of life’s unfairness.

On Medium: Sexual Intimacy was the First Holy Ground

Read on about how sex’s prominence in the earliest, Mother Goddess religions deflates theism since theological absurdities derive their mystique from mundane conflicts.

On Medium: Hanzi Freinacht and the Apocalypse of Modern Enlightenment

Here's an article that reckons with the pseudoproblems of metamodernists and explains the difference between overcomplicated and realistic views of postmodernity.

I Encountered the Epitome of “Wokeness”

The following is my December 19, 2024 article on "wokeness" that Medium recently took down. I refer to this article in another article about wokeness on Medium.

On Medium: Nazi Philosophy’s Revenge on Liberal Societies?

Read on for an assessment of Carl Schmitt’s case against liberalism, which tests whether the Nazis are avenging themselves with the global upsurge of authoritarianism.