On Medium: The Theology of Artificial Intelligence

Read on about godlike anomalies in nature, the folly of studying God, and the theological status of artificial intelligence.

On Medium: Religions are as Tribal as Baseball Teams

Here's an article about the arbitrariness of identifying with your “home team,” both in sports and religion.

On Medium: Consumerism is as Irrational as Fundamentalist Religion

Here's an article about the need for an existential perspective on all cultures, one that can compare, for instance, the rationality of atheistic and religious cultures.

On Medium: The Centrist Conceits of Scott Galloway’s Advice for Men

Here's an article about Scott Galloway's praises for quaint manliness for posthumans in the progressive age of machines.

On Medium: Avoiding Madness with Philosophy

Read on about how to gain perspective on 2025’s authoritarian nightmare, and what philosophy can do in the face of Trumpian absurdity.

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.