On Medium: The Horror of American Politics: All Dragons, No Knights

Here's an article on the nightmare that prepared Americans for Trump's authoritarianism and kakistocracy, and how Democrats can regain their honour.

On Medium: What is the Universe’s Godless Structure?

Read on about the role of mathematical abstraction in the absence of a divine plan, and the relevance of the two main senses of "structure" to metaphysics.

On Medium: Who Has the Self-Reinforcing Delusion, Theists or Atheists?

Here's an article that corrects the Catholic philosopher William Desmond’s confusions about godlessness and self-reinforcing presuppositions.

On Medium: Can Pantheists or Humanists Save our Dying Planet?

Read on for a dialogue on competing mindsets for addressing the ecological crisis, namely nature-worshipping pantheism and progress-seeking secular humanism.

On Medium: Christianity Turned Jesus into a Paper Tiger

Read on about how the Church’s brand nullified Jesus’s countercultural idealism to excuse the rise of godless Christendom.

On Medium: Morality is the Heroically Creative Use of Awe and Dread

Here's an article that recovers secular morality by combining the standard philosophies (virtue theory, deontology, utilitarianism, and existentialism).

On Medium: God, Atheism, and the Astonishing Fact that Nature Exists

Read on for a critique of William Desmond’s wonder-based, apologetical philosophy of religion and his conception of atheism as a presupposed ethos.

On Medium: Surveying Christianity’s Internal Conflicts

Read on for a dialogue on whether Christianity is deeply incoherent, given, for instance, how the deification of Jesus implies both monotheism and polytheism.

On Medium: Nature’s Otherness and the Consolation of Madness

Read on about the futile bridges of philosophy, science, mysticism, and horror fiction: by always simplifying to understand things, the facts always include a terrifying unknown or ignored side.

On Medium: Consciousness and the Transformation of Nature

Here's an article about the role of qualia in nature’s taming of itself, or how consciousness acts as an alienating limbo that motivates degrees of terraforming.

On Medium: Trump’s Second Term is a Natural Disaster

Read on about Canada’s options for riding out the storm of Trump's tariffs, imperial threats, and authoritarian dismantling of America's liberal institutions. 

On Medium: The Atheist’s Supposedly Grim Explanatory Burden

Read on about the atheist's supposed special difficulties explaining the universe's origin, free will, and morality, and why religious folks have it much worse.

On Medium: The Bogus Reasons an Atheist Converted to Christianity

Here's an article that sorts through the hogwash of Christian apologetics, including some weak arguments why a supposed atheist converted to Christianity.

On Medium: The Cosmic Horror of Nature’s Profound Dumbness

Read on about the pejorative sense of life's being an accident, which some secular humanists whitewash by saying we should be grateful for life's unlikelihood.

On Medium: A Lament for the Last Days of Modernity

Read on about Trumpism, the historic reversion to global barbarity, and the obligations of history's last liberals as they look on at modernity's imminent demise.

On Medium: The Mental Abyss Dividing Us from Nature

Here's an article about the cosmic and mental abysses that make nonsense of the mystical sentiment that everything is united.

On Medium: The Charade of Alvin Plantinga’s Philosophical Theism

Here's an article about how even sophisticated theism is child’s play, as shown by the confusions of even the sophisticated Christian philosopher, Alvin Plantinga.

On Medium: God and the Mystery of Nature’s Intelligibility

Read on for a disposal of a weak argument for theism, namely that God must exist for the world to have been made intelligible to us.

On Medium: Personhood, Humanism and the Cosmos: A Dialogue

Here's a dialogue on whether secular humanists can account for people’s anomalousness, or whether religion is needed to recognize that people are precious.

On Medium: The Cosmic Role of Godless People

Read on for a reconstruction of the question of life’s meaning so the question still makes sense after the collapse of a theistic rationale for human teleology.

On Medium: The Religious Canard about “Objective Morality”

Read on about how preposterous religious convictions can taint the theist’s philosophical analyses, as in the case of the religious talk of the need for "objective morality."

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."