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.
Wednesday, February 26, 2025
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.
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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
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.
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.
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