On Medium: There is No Scientific Understanding of Nature

Read on about how popularizers of science may understate what it means to objectify nature because the universe's inhumanity threatens science's humanistic ethos.

On Medium: Stephen Hawking’s Confused Pantheism

Read on about how Stephen Hawking's pantheistic confusions about the "laws of nature" derive from Spinoza's theistic packaging of nature's impersonal creativity.

On Medium: The Wildness of Nature’s Subversive Creativity

Read on about entropy, the unnaturalness of progress, and the nonarbitrariness of cosmic horror and the conception of nature as fundamentally wild.

On Medium: Mark Carney’s Misplaced Faith in Trump’s Rationality

Read on about Adam Curtis's view that irrational reality surprises liberal intellectuals, and how this explains the futility of the Canadian Liberals' handling of Trump.

On Medium: Should Secular Philosophy be Rooted in Cosmic Horror?

Read on for a dialogue on whether a cynical, Lovecraftian view of nature makes sense and could ever support a mainstream culture.

On Medium: Faith, Forensics, and the Absurd in Christianity

Read on for a dialogue on the upside and the downside of Christianity's mystical emphasis on theological absurdities.

On Medium: Love is Nature’s Compensation for Cosmic Horror

Read on about how nature prefers farce to tragedy in life’s evolution, so pleasures evolve to balance the inevitable suffering from nature's absurdity.

On Medium: The Cosmic Negation of Infantile Presumptions

Read on about ancient and early modern forerunners to the cosmic horror genre, from Greek tragedy and Buddhist nihilism to the Marquis de Sade and HP Lovecraft.

On Medium: Where’s the Left-Wing Version of Trump in America?

Read on about centrism, the asymmetry of conservative and liberal radicalism, and how Trump revealed the duplicity and ineffectiveness of centrist Democrats.

On Medium: Peter Thiel’s Incoherent Propaganda

Here's an article about how a Silicon Valley titan tries to square the circle with libertarianism, conservatism, transhumanism, and Christianity.

On Medium: Modern Self-Deification and the Array of Religions

Here's an article about the ideological resources the world’s religions have for accommodating the modern rise of science and secular humanism.

On Medium: Trump’s Strange Aversion to War

Read on about the paradox of Trumpism’s incomplete monstrousness, and some explanations of how Trump and MAGA could be odious but strangely not eager for WWIII.

On Medium: Don’t Insult the Worldview that’s Home to My Mind

Here's an article about individualism, the futile debate between theists and atheists, and why we attach ourselves to our worldviews.

On Medium: Science Should be More Lovecraftian

Read on about the physicist Sean Carroll’s half-hearted undermining of human vanities, and the need for a sharpening of science's humanist ethos with cosmic horror.

On Medium: Napoleonic Cynics and the Pejorative Sense of “Ideology”

Read on about the dubious grounds for the pessimistic dismissal of idealists, stemming from Napoleon's infamous cynicism.

On Medium: Religious Fundamentalism Isn't Humiliating Enough

Here's an article on the need for a deflationary perspective in deconstructing fundamentalism and making peace with religion's humble, natural origins that ought to humiliate tribal literalists. 

On Medium: Conservatives Have Always Been Antimodern

Read on about how Donald Trump’s crassness is just gloves-off conservatism, and conservatives have always been opposed to modernity's humanist ethos.

On Medium: Is Civilisation Doomed Without Religion?

Read on for a dialogue on secular faith, postmodern meaning in a godless cosmos, and whether a secular humanist society can sustain itself in the long run.

On Medium: The Scientific Whitewashing of Nature

Here's an article on how scientists are caught between nature’s monstrousness and their humanistic ethos, so they're tempted to whitewash existential facts in their popularizations.

On Medium: Science Made Theism Archaic

Read on about the simple dynamic that makes most religions preposterous, as science undermines the intuitions that sustain the vain personification of ultimate causes.

On Medium: How Objective is Science?

Read on for a dialogue on structural realism, the limits of objectivity, and the potential for neo-animistic scientific projections onto nature.

On Medium: What’s Behind Big Tech’s Cult of Transhumanism?

Read on about the philosophical issues that the big tech billionaires and their fad’s propaganda ignore by highlighting the role of revolutionary technologies.

On Medium: The Gods of Philosophers and the Unwashed Masses

Read on about the difference between the God of philosophers and the God of average religious folks, and the problem with Bishop Barron’s dismissal of New Atheism.

On Medium: Jesus’s Counterculture and the Christian Abomination

Read on about the meaning of those who are “poor in spirit,” according to the Beatitudes, and how that divides the initial Jesus movement from the later organized religion.

On Medium: Scientists’ Mathematical Confusions about Natural Necessities

Here's an article about the need to pivot from quaint reassurances to cosmic horror, and how the emphasis on math in the hard sciences disinclines us to make that pivot.

On Medium: Corporations Are Our Superheroes

Read on about how large corporations infantilize consumers and spare them late-modern cynicism, effectively rescuing them from the downside of the postmodern condition.

On Medium: What is a Human Body if the Universe Must be Disembodied?

Here's an article about the cosmic perspective, the conventional use of reassuring illusions, and the paradox of our apparent embodiment in a necessarily disembodied universe.

On Medium: Music for Strong and Weak Generations

Read on to compare the music produced by bands and “solo” artists, and to see how generations grow up to different kinds of music, which strengthens or weakens them.

On Medium: There’s No Final Word in Art or Religion

Here's an article about the blasphemy of believing that religious scriptures convey absolute truths, and the implications of the fact that art is never completed but only abandoned.

On Medium: “Dark Enlightenment” and the Tragedy of Corporate Hubris

Read on about the odiousness of Nick Land’s anarcho-capitalism, and why governments shouldn't be treated as businesses.

On Medium: Atheists Make Better Modern Citizens Than Theists

Read on for an exposé of the Christian apologist Richard John Neuhaus’s confusions about whether theists make for better citizens than atheists.

On Medium: Alex O’Connor’s Agnosticism and Access Journalism

Here's an article about softball interviews, truth-telling, and Alex O'Connor's centrist, access journalism, which increases his audience but muddies the waters. 

On Medium: The Stubborn Confusion that Natural Events are Lawful

Read on about why “laws of nature” persists as a figure of speech in science, and the philosophical implications of that conception of natural patterns.

On Medium: Bob Ross’s Mantras Tame Cthulhu

Read on about the Lovecraftian view of nature, and the secret of Bob Ross’s cult status as a painter of “happy” landscapes.

On Medium: The Myth of the Tranquil Sage

Read on for a dialogue on whether philosophy can make you happy, or whether philosophy is countercultural, so it alienates neo-prophets with subversive insights.

On Medium: Saint Paul’s Tribal Demonization of His Critics

Here's an article that exposes the numerous Christian fallacies in the first chapter of Romans, and how later apologists expand on them in response to atheists.

On Medium: There are No Relations in the Cosmic Monstrosity

Here's an article about neo-animism, nature’s pseudo-social causal relations, and the dubious slide from social relationships to nature's asocial "relations."

On Medium: Nature’s Art and the Whitewashing of Awe

Read on about secular humanist reverence, cosmic horror, and how the whitewashed version of awe is vulnerable to a critique that revives "awe's" original meaning. 

On Medium: Jordan Peterson’s Sophistry Against Atheism

Here's an article about the viral video in which young atheists trash Jordan Peterson's sophistry, and how to see through his obfuscation to what’s at stake in his psychological religion.

On Medium: The Clash Between American and Chinese Atheism

Read on about liberalism, authoritarian collectivism, the late-modern sidelining of religion, and the clash between American and Chinese versions of secularism.

On Medium: America’s Reasonable Dread of Progress

Read on about how Democratic urbanites and Republican ruralists opt for different escapes from nature’s grim reality.

On Medium: The Philosopher’s Inner Struggle

Here's an article about why the search for truth is opposed to the desire for happiness, and how the countercultural philosopher struggles with that conflict.

On Medium: The Meeting of Alien and Deluded Minds in Mahayana Buddhism

Read on about the clash between mysticism and pragmatism in the Lotus Sutra, and Buddhism's double truth doctrine for the enlightened and the unenlightened.

On Medium: The Irrelevance of New Atheists and Trumpian “Christians”

Here's an article about New Atheism's accomplishments, and the underlying conflict between fading American liberalism and China’s totalitarian atheism.

On Medium: Are We Many or One?

Read on for a dialogue on whether we're individual minds, or there's a single mind underlying our personal identities, and the pantheistic implications of computational thought experiments.

On Medium: The Counterproductive Love of Wisdom

Here's an article about the philosophy's downside, as shown by its history and social context, and whether philosophy's redeemed by some overriding advantage.

On Medium: The Internet Exposes Freedom’s Downside

Here's an article about the antisociality of social media, the flight to authoritarian regimes, and what the state of the internet tells us about liberalism's decline.

On Medium: Is God the All-Powerful Quantum Vacuum?

Here's a dialogue on the philosophical implications of a quantum mechanical view of nature, and the prospects of happiness for quantum resonances.

On Medium: Escaping Cosmic Dismay with Feel-Good Platitudes

Read on about a fallacy of gaslighting optimism that's based on dire premises, a sentimental fallacy found in what passes for philosophy on Instagram.

On Medium: Trumpism and the Rise of Meta-Christianity

Read on about how the medium is the message in Trump’s postmodern political cult, and Trumpism depends not on Christian theology, but theism's epistemological conceits.