Wednesday, February 26, 2025

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.

Tuesday, February 25, 2025

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.

Monday, February 24, 2025

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.

Thursday, February 20, 2025

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."

Wednesday, February 19, 2025

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.

Tuesday, February 18, 2025

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.

Monday, February 17, 2025

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.

Thursday, February 13, 2025

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.

Wednesday, February 12, 2025

Tuesday, February 11, 2025

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.

Monday, February 10, 2025

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.

Thursday, February 6, 2025

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.

Wednesday, February 5, 2025

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.

Tuesday, February 4, 2025

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.

Monday, February 3, 2025

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.