On Medium: Go Deeper than Aldous Huxley’s “Perennial Philosophy”

Read on about existentialism, religion’s prosocial propaganda, and shallowness of the uplifting perennial philosophy.

On Medium: Nihilists are Incomplete Skeptics

Here's an article about how, ironically, the most rigorous, reductive feats of objectification end up re-enchanting nature, so that nihilists miss how skepticism overcomes itself.

On Medium: High Tech’s Threat to Human Pride

Read on about how to navigate the historical cycle in which arrogant or humiliated cultures prevail, and how computers and AI threaten our pride in civilization.

On Medium: The Mundane Source of Religious Concepts

Here's an article about Occam’s razor, the mundane source of religious concepts, and the humiliating comedown for theists.

On Medium: America’s Second, Lopsided Civil War

Read on about why Democratic resistance to Trump's second presidency looks like Bambi standing up to Godzilla.

On Medium: Self-Help Know-it-Alls and the Cult of Happiness

Read on about how individualism is the source of many of our mental health problems, and why the self-help industry should be humiliating to psychiatrists and professional therapists.

On Medium: Atlas and the Burden of Civilized Lifestyles

Here's an article on how the Greek myth of Atlas helps us recognize the resolve that's needed to overcome enlightened alienation and take responsible for the worlds we create.

On Medium: Social Conformity and Psychiatry’s Authority as a Science

Read on for a dialogue on the basis of psychiatric evaluations of mental disorders, and the clash between psychiatrists' scientific status and their deference to social conventions.

On Medium: The Clash Between Conservative Psychiatrists and Liberal Philosophers

Read on to sort through the psychiatrist's conservative propaganda and the philosopher's liberal critique of society's conception of mental health.

On Medium: The Evolving Universe’s Monstrous Character

Here's an article about the clash between physical and evolutionary views of nature’s foundations, and whether the universe is timeless and impersonal, or it has a character befitting its narrative arc.

On Medium: Why Does Medium Still Allow Hit and Runs?

Read on about cancel culture, the abuse of “blocking” writers on social media, and the secular humanist ethos of critical thinking that should guide us.

On Medium: Why America Bet Everything on AI, and China Excels at Manufacturing

Here's an article about the culture clash between fraudulent individualism and pragmatic humanism, a clash that explains the difference between American and Chinese economic priorities.

On Medium: The Ultimate Test of Religion’s Plausibility

Here's an article about the test of which worldview best explains the uncontroversial data at hand, namely the existence of the world's multiplicity of religions.

On Medium: Are We Ever Awake and Not Daydreaming?

Here's an article about the cultural dreams of billions of sleepwalkers, and what it means psychologically and socially for life to be dreamlike.

On Medium: Psychiatrists Don’t Dictate Who’s Mentally Healthy

Read on about social conformity, the psychiatric struggle to define “mental disorder,” and the philosophical judgment of social norms.

On Medium: Taylor Swift and Art’s Neoshamanic Purpose

Here's an article about superstardom after the death of art, and whether Taylor Swift fulfills art's neoshamanic purpose.

On Medium: Hypocrisy is Inescapable for Internally Divided Brains

Read on about the cognitive and social causes of hypocrisy and the quixotic quest for flawless consistency.

On Medium: No One Likes Talking About Men

Here's an article about the strange disparity between between stories about maleness and femaleness on Medium.

On Medium: Why Humanists Should Denounce Cancel Culture

Read on about the dubious metaphor behind progressive and conservative dismissals of people, and why humanists should reject cancel culture.

On Medium: Instagram at the Frontier of Our Hypocrisy in the Wild

Read on about Instagrammers' confusion about role in nature, and whether we should help troubled wild animals or leave them to their fates.

On Medium: The Slipperiness of Conservative Economics

Read on about why conservatives have craved both free-market and centrally controlled economies, and whether these opposite views can be reconciled.

On Medium: There Will be No Left-Wing Version of Trump in America

Here's an article about the political asymmetries in the US that account for why Republicans needn’t fear a revolutionary left-wing presidency.

On Medium: The Ruse of the Conservative’s Pragmatic Case Against Atheism

Read on for a dissection of Niall Ferguson’s conservative Christian criticism of godless lifestyles, and to see whether there's merit in a pragmatic case against atheism.

On Medium: The Misanthropic Humanist

Here's an article about whether "misanthropic humanist" is oxymoronic, and how some secular humanists are bound to hold most people in contempt.

On Medium: William F. Buckley Jr. had No Conservative Philosophy

Here's an article about National Review’s fusionism, conservatism’s unspeakable core idea, and why William F Buckley Jr. wasn't a real debater.

On Medium: Trump’s Revenge Against the Loathsome Elites

Read on about why American liberals have some reason to cheer on Trump's immiseration of the neoliberal elites and his sabotaging of their country's institutions. 

On Medium: Tribal Antics and Sappy Humanist Scolding

Read on about the question of who’s more realistic, those who are immersed in social games or the marginalized who adopt a radical perspective?

On Medium: The Insidious “Cute Eyes” Defense of Religion

Here's an article about how apologists prey on our instinct to protect childish naivety and playfulness, and how skeptics can hoist theists on their own petard.

On Medium: The Pedantry of Wondering Whether Trump’s a Fascist

Read on about how words work, how liberals should oppose the far right, and why we needn't fuss over whether Trump is a fascist or only an authoritarian.

On Medium: Charlie Kirk’s Epic Trolling of Colleges

Read on about the stark difference between civil debates and conservative provocations, as exemplified by Charlie Kirk's exploitations of the defects of American college campuses.

On Medium: All Worldviews Cope with Life’s Absurdity

Read on about how existentialism levels the cultural playing field, by accounting for how worldviews address absurdity rather than just reason or utility.

On Medium: Why Trump’s Fascist Evil Conquered America

Here's an article about how the postwar dynamics of America’s military-industrial complex and the twin governmental fig leaves led to Trumpism.

On Medium: The Neoshamanic Quest Can Solve the Crisis of Manliness

Read on about how the manosphere overcompensates for men’s evolutionary pointlessness, leaving men with a crisis of manliness that neoshamanism can fix.

On Medium: Toxic Masculinity and Late-Modernity’s Ideal Man

Here's an article about how the men’s rights movement’s overcompensates for the incoherence of manliness, given the clash between civilized standards and evolution's prioritizing of sexuality.

On Medium: Tyranny is Unspeakable on Corporate Media

Here's an article about how corporate news anchors resort to weak labels like “authoritarian” and “dictator” when criticizing Trumpism.

On Medium: Godless Societies are as Irrational as Religious Ones

Read on about transhuman glory, the existential purpose of all cultures, and why even secular cultures aren't grounded in reason.

On Medium: There Are No Conservative Debaters

Read on about the corporate news media’s confusion about whether the assassinated conservative activist Charlie Kirk was a “debater.”

On Medium: Are People Special from a Cosmic Perspective?

Here's a dialogue on whether secular humanism is consistent with philosophical naturalism, or an objective view of our place in nature undermines the humanist's anthropocentrism.

On Medium: Tool-Users and the Mastery of Writing

Read on about why you shouldn’t publish if you can’t write well without computers, AI, and the internet, because publishing should be for masters, not students.

On Medium: Cultural Ironies and Men’s Expendability

Here's an article about how we overcompensate for nature’s unequal expectations for us, as masculinity copes with men's secondary status in nature, and femininity drags women down from their natural height.

On Medium: Our Maker’s Creativity is Ambiguous

Read on about how we project our longings onto natural transformations, as we prefer order to disorder even though the two are interconnected in nature, and disorder may prevail.

On Medium: The Precarious Role of Metaphysics in Nature

Here's a dialogue on what philosophy adds to science, religion, and art, and the role of metaphysics in philosophy, given the rise of the scientific picture of nature’s creativity.

On Medium: The Acute Meaning Crisis for Spoiled Consumers

Read on about how liberal progress produces a class of infantile adults that lacks a collective mother figure, resulting in an acute late-modern meaning crisis.

On Medium: The Reign of Civilized Psychopaths

Read on about why Democrats seem so feeble next to President Trump, and how subcriminal psychopathy might be a political superpower that undermines the liberal's faith in humanity.

On Medium: The Best Religious Response to Atheism is Two Words Long

Read on about why we must reckon with the existential basis of all cultures, and realize that neither religious nor secular worldviews are fully justified by reason.

On Medium: Religion as Faulty Technology or Disposable Art

Here's an article about the spectrum of artifacts in late-modern societies of abundance, and whether religious beliefs and rituals should be viewed more as tools or artworks.

On Medium: AI Slop and the Artist’s Struggle

Here's an article about the corporate prioritizing of output over process, and the implications of consumers' devaluing of the artistic process.

On Medium: Spot the Difference Between Honest and Dishonest Writing

Read on about how some nonfiction writers aren't trying to be truthtellers, and how to spot the difference between the two.

On Medium: Femininity and the Humanist Restoration of Goddess Culture

Here's an article about the search for women’s authentic self-expression, a search that would bypass the patriarchal conceptions of womanliness.

On Medium: The Clash Between Metamodernism and Existentialism

Here's a dialogue on John Vervaeke’s scientific reconstruction of spirituality, and the existential insight that people, unlike impersonal animals, inevitably experience alienation.