Medium Articles

The following is a clickable reading list that maps out this blog’s more recent articles, the ones I've been posting on Medium, and this list will be updated as I add new ones. I’ve tried to arrange the readings in a logical order so that the more general, central, or background readings come before the others in each category. The older articles can be found here.

Secrets of Philosophy

Philosophy For Those Who Are Neither Vulgar Nor Wise

Tourette Syndrome and the Acquaintance with Absurdity

Should Secular Philosophy be Rooted in Cosmic Horror? A Dialogue 

The Precarious Role of Metaphysics in Nature: A Dialogue

Are People Special from a Cosmic Perspective? A Dialogue

Psychedelics: Forgotten Foundations of the Human Condition

The Strangeness of Ultimate Truth 

Is the Search for Truth a Game? 

Is Self-Deception the Bedrock of All Knowledge?  

We Know We’re Telling Tall Tales Because Our Mouths are Moving

Why We Should Reject the Conceit of "Objective Truth" 

Understanding the Facts Makes All Knowledge Partly Subjective 

The Pretense that Objective Truth is Neutral 

The Simplistic Myth We Tell about “Objective Truth” 

The Mirage of Facts in a Desert of Storytelling

How Even Science is as Arbitrary as the Taste in Art 

Even Scientists are Trapped by their Intuitions 

The Scientific Whitewashing of Nature 

There is No Scientific Understanding of Nature

Is Science Neutral or Imperialistic Towards Nature? 

Are Scientists So Ruthless that they Orphan their Brainchildren? 

Are Scientists as Objective as Thermometers? 

How Objective is Science?

Why Scientists Don’t Understand the Inhuman Wilderness 

Quantum Wildness and the Newtonian Myth of a Natural Order

Does Science Make Atheistic Naturalism Mandatory? 

Is Philosophical Naturalism a Dead End? 

Is Naturalism Coherent or Vacuous?

How Secularists Should Think of Metaphysics

The Reckoning for Our Routine Suppressions of Epiphany 

All Worldviews Cope with Life’s Absurdity

Is a Worldview Just a Weapon?  

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

How the Self’s Illusion is Like a Geode

What is the Nature of Ultimate Knowledge? 

The Trouble with Asking Why there’s Something Rather Than Nothing

Membranes, Alienation, and Nature’s Wild Creativity 

The Oversupply and Triviality of All Natural Beings 

The Scientific Threat to the Consumer’s Atomistic Ethos 

A Dialogue on whether Societies are Built on Infinite Relations 

Are We Many or One? A Dialogue

Is God the All-Powerful Quantum Vacuum?

Nature Includes Real Anomalies

The Limbo from the Labyrinth: Consciousness and the Brain 

Consciousness, the Crow’s Nest, and the Judo Throw of Nature 

Qualia, Alienation, and the Brain’s Mental Simulations

A Backdoor Solution to the Hard Problem of Consciousness 

Consciousness is Nature’s Warning that Living Things are Insurgents

Pygmy Marmosets Hold the Secret to Consciousness

If You’re Conscious, You’re Alienated 

Personhood as the Pinnacle of Alienation 

You’re either Free and Alienated or Enslaved to Physics or Society 

The Wallflower Niche

How the Fear of Death Adds to the Mystery of Consciousness 

How Black Holes Help Solve the Mystery of Consciousness 

We’re All Ghosts Haunting Our Bodies

How Physical Objects Submit to the Apparent Miracle of Human Consciousness 

Consciousness and the Transformation of Nature 

Consciousness is the Rupture that Drives Our Terraforming 

Civility as the Ghost in our Myriad Machines

Consciousness: The Nemesis of Naturalism? 

What if the Universe is All in God’s Head? 

Free Will is Possible Because Wild Nature Tries Everything

Some Basics of Cynical Sociology

The Spectrum of Collective Escapes from Reality 

Is Life an Absurd Game? 

None of Our Worldviews Matters to the Cosmos

John Vervaeke on Wisdom and the Meaning Crisis 

Vervaeke’s Glib Solution to the Meaning Crisis 

Why John Vervaeke Dances Around the Question of Life’s Meaning 

When Philosophers and Scientists Squabble about the Meaning Crisis 

The Clash Between Metamodernism and Existentialism: A Dialogue

Science Doesn’t Show that Life is Meaningless

Only Godlike Technology Can Save Us from Life’s Absurdity 

Why Animals and People have Different Meanings in Life

Is The Truth Necessarily Good for Us? 

Should the Masses be Taught Philosophy? 

Can Philosophy Save Humanity? 

Avoiding Madness with Philosophy

The Abyss That’s Engulfing Western Philosophy 

Liberalism Withstands the Decadence of European Cynics

Is Philosophy a Con? 

Why Philosophy is as Unpopular as Real Spirituality 

Hollow Philosophy and the Call for Neoshamans

The Counterproductive Love of Wisdom 

The Myth of the Tranquil Sage

The Philosopher’s Inner Struggle

The Philosopher’s Role in Shepherding High Culture through a Dark Age

Should Philosophy be Commonsensical? 

Compared to Science, is Philosophy Just a Nuisance? 

Philosophy Doesn’t Progress in the Existential Abyss

Top Three Criticisms of Philosophy 

Does Neuroscience Show that Mind is an Illusion? 

Why We’re All Spellbound by Myths 

The Existential Clash Between Childhood and Adulthood 

What it Means to Say Life is Absurd 

Who are the Best People in an Absurd Universe?

The Most Telling Fear of Death 

Stories Are Our Shields Against Life’s Absurdity

How Human Parasites Dupe Us By Running Out Our Clock 

Our Maker’s Creativity is Ambiguous

Creativity is the Bridge that Unites Civilizers with Nature

The Promethean Revolt And The Cosmic Meaning of Art 

The Cosmic Importance of Art

Glimpsing the Posthuman Mentality 

Beyond the Consumer's Dream of Ultimate Knowledge

Transhuman Epistemology: Knowledge in the Cosmic Scheme 

What Happens After Philosophy Eats its Tail? 

God or Monstrous Nature? The Mother of All Dichotomies

Enlightenment and Cosmic Horror 

The Cosmic Negation of Infantile Presumptions

Nature’s Art and the Whitewashing of Awe

The Horror of Nature’s Profound Dumbness

Nature’s Otherness and the Consolation of Madness

The Universe's Monstrous Character 

The Universe is Transcendentally Monstrous 

The Evolving Universe’s Monstrous Character

How We’re All Heroes Surrounded by Monsters

Nature’s Monstrousness Drives Human Progress 

The Prospect of Tragic Heroism in the Cosmic Scheme 

The Terrors of Outer Space and Deep Time 

Our Babyish Filters for Deep Time and Space

Nature is Deaf to Our Gratitude for Being Alive

Nature is a Haunted House, and Scientists Find the Ghosts

The One Religious Insight that Science and Philosophy Support

The Dread of Pantheistic Enlightenment 

A Clash of Pantheisms 

The Tempest in a Teapot for Pantheists

The Flaw in Goethean Pantheism 

Stephen Hawking’s Confused Pantheism

All Hail the Pantheist’s Impersonal Gods! 

Should Secular Humanists be Pantheists? (unlisted) 

Can Pantheists or Humanists Save our Dying Planet?

The Joy of Belonging to a Monstrous God 

Plant Philosophy should be Rooted in Pantheism

The Romantic Origin of Darwin’s Theory of Evolution

How the Youthful Universe Conjures its Structure 

The Secular Humanist’s Ontology 

The Cosmos Plays like a Wild Child 

Can We Intuit the Meaning of Nature’s Wild Creativity? 

We’re Tormented and Tantalized by Cosmic Wildness 

The Wildness of Nature’s Subversive Creativity 

The Engines of Cosmic Wildness

Is Nature Metaphysically Wild? 

God’s Dystopia and Nature’s Wild Origin 

How Science Enslaves the Natural Order 

Scientific Progress as the Ogling and Ravaging of Nature 

The Universe is Monstrous, Yet Scientists Adore Nature

The Miraculous Brute Fact of the Natural Order 

The Natural Order Must be Metaphysically Disordered 

The Stubborn Confusion that Natural Events are Lawful 

Science Should be More Lovecraftian

There are No Relations in the Cosmic Monstrosity

The Dread of Nature’s Lifeless Physical Energy

The Terror of Nature’s Impersonal Physicality

Why You Should be Haunted by Nature’s Physicality

Secular Ironies: From Pantheism to Hubristic Progress 

People are Anti-Natural, not Supernatural

How Civilization Devours Nature like a Black Hole 

The Mental Abyss Dividing Us from Nature

Are We Slaves to Nature or Rogue Actors? 

How Nature Made Us Virtually Supernatural

The Inherent Value of a Godless Universe 

The Enlightened Horror for the Wilderness

The Cosmos is Haunted by its Deep Inexplicability 

The Spell that Nature Keeps Casting Even on Scientists

Scientific Nihilism and the Resurrection of Morality 

Nature’s Creativity Proves the Downfall of Nihilism 

Nihilists are Incomplete Skeptics

How Pessimists Should Avoid Despair 

What is the Universe’s Godless Structure?

The Pythagorean Illuminati and their Mathematical Reality 

Deflating the Miracle of Mathematics

Mathematics: An Intimidating Game 

Mathematicians as Magicians: The Trick Behind their Pompous Formalities 

Scientists’ Mathematical Confusions about Natural Necessities

 

God's Funeral

The Futility of Arguing About God 

Reckoning with the Horrors of God and Nature 

Why We Should Worship Absurdity 

Sanctifying the Crutch of Religious Faith

God’s Lack of Religiosity Makes Fools of Most Worshippers 

The Cosmic Horror in Psalm 8

Why Think God is a Person? 

God’s Pearls Cast Before Human Swine

Why Would a Loving God have Created the Dinosaurs? 

The Insidious “Cute Eyes” Defense of Religion

A Loving God Would be Like a Pedophile 

Art Should be More Sacred than Religion 

There’s No Final Word in Art or Religion

Religion as Faulty Technology or Disposable Art

How Religious Traditions Exploit Signal Loss from the Past 

Deflating the Mystique of Religious Language

Why Scriptures Are Still Revered In An Age of Disposable Text

The Weak Magic of Praying to God

The Many Quaint Masks of God 

The Telltale Evolution of Our Concepts of God

How Monotheists Objectify Nature by Glorifying God 

Monotheism as Godlessness: The Hidden Meaning of Judaism

How Dead Gods can Live on as Zombies 

How Gods Hide in Plain Sight as Cultural Brands 

How the Creeds of Charlatans Exploit Prophetic Madness

Nietzsche’s Politicizing of Schopenhauer’s Pantheism 

Is God a Benevolent Dictator? 

Should God be Rejected at the Final Judgment?

Theists Insult God’s Integrity by Expecting Miracles

Religious and Secular Myths as Conspiracy “Theories” 

The Mystery of Religion’s Persistence 

How All Theological Statements Might be Subliminal 

How Flying in Planes Makes Nonsense of Religion 

Religious Fundamentalism Isn't Humiliating Enough

Touch Grass to Find God; Touch Concrete to Find Atheism

The Atheistic Argument from Religious Chutzpah

The Vanity of Cosmological Questions 

Why There are No Philistines in Foxholes 

Seeing Through Religion’s Branding of the Sublime 

Pragmatism and the New Atheist’s Irrelevant Victory

The Downsides of American and Chinese Atheism

Meet the Three Stooges of Monotheism 

Yahweh, the God of Alienation 

The Existential Stakes of Judaism

Muddled Christianity and Jewish Alienation

How Jesus Refuted Christianity 

The Existential Flaw of Christianity 

Kierkegaard’s Small-Minded Christian Existentialism

The Downside of Christian Literalism

How Kurt Cobain was More Christ-like than Any Pope

Islam’s Retcon of Jewish Monotheism 

Cosmic Horror and the Existential Problem of Islam 

Why the Muslim World Resents Judaism 

Waiting for Godot in the Middle East’s Holy Wars

Ancient India: The Citadel of Disaffection 

Hinduism’s Gambit of Inclusivity 

The Sage’s Mission in a Harmonious Universe

Are Buddhists Wrong to Try to End Suffering?

The Levelheadedness of Chinese Religions 

How Modernity Alienates Us from Nature and from Ourselves 

The Absurdity of God

The Man-made Gods of Monotheism 

The Irrelevance of All Philosophical Proofs of God 

Why Religion Shouldn’t Be Rational 

Why There Are No Religious Beliefs or Practices 

Why We’re Ashamed to Admit the Flaws of our Religion

The Mundane God Within Us and the Illusion of Divine Oversight 

The Divine Object that’s Mistaken for God

Natural Sources of the God Concept 

The Mundane Source of Religious Concepts

Sexual Intimacy was the First Holy Ground 

Religions are as Tribal as Baseball Teams

Godhood through Cannabis?

The Psychedelic Memory of our Divinity 

From On Psychedelic High: The Divine Terror of Entheogens 

How Religions Suppress Spiritual Epiphanies

The Gall of Imagining God’s Reality 

Tyranny and the Horror of Being God

The Forgotten Obsolescence of Faith 

Religious Faith: A Free Pass In A Trivial Game 

Is God a Trickster, Toying with Us to Make Faith Possible?

Why Miracle Stories are Irrational

The Greater Miracles of Science

Religious Faith in Scriptural Fiction

The Religious Apologist’s Toy Proofs of God

Is the Concept of God Miraculous?

Must God Exist Because Most People are Religious? 

Did God Design Consciousness to Work in Nature? 

Signs of God: The Minefield of Miracles 

The Ultimate Test of Religion’s Plausibility

Why God Can’t Help Us with Moral Choices

Self-Evolving Nature and the Design Argument 

Is Nature Too Divinely Self-Creative to Need an Intelligent Designer?

When Reasons Run Out: The Cosmological Argument 

Real by Definition: The Ontological Proof of God

God, Freewill, and the Strangeness of Morality 

The Religious Canard about “Objective Morality” 

A Critique of the Argument from Evil 

Absurd Mismatches and the Desire for God 

Are Religions More Helpful than Godless Cultures?

Does the Desire for God Show that God is Real? A Dialogue

Should All Pragmatists be Theists? A Dialogue

“Stand to Reason’s” Feeble Arguments for Theism

The Bogus Reasons an Atheist Converted to Christianity 

God and the Mystery of Nature’s Intelligibility

Are Sophisticated Theists Just Atheists in Disguise?

Is Theology as Rational as Science or as Arbitrary as Art? 

Scrutinizing the Religious Meaning of Life 

Scrutinizing the Secular Humanistic Meaning of Life 

Personhood, Humanism and the Cosmos: A Dialogue

Why Would God Care What You Do? 

What God Would Allow Donald Trump to Thrive?

Who Punishes God for Experimenting with Sentient life?

Why the Evolution of Religion Should Worry Believers

The Inevitability of Atheism 

Are Atheists Hypocritical for Rejecting Faith-Based Evidence? 

Theistic Overreach and the Audacity of Secular Humanism 

Debunking Ben Shapiro’s Debunking of Atheism

How The Desert Metaphor Shaped Monotheism 

Epic Heroes and the Timidity of the Garden of Eden Myth 

Christians Grossly Distort Our Relationship to Nature

How Jewish World-Weariness Puts Christianity and Islam to Shame

The Triumph of Jewish Comedy Over Monotheistic Brands 

The Satirical Gist of the World’s Religions 

Larry David: A Scapegoated Jewish Antihero 

How the Roman Empire Humiliated Monotheists 

Judaism Ends in Atheistic Humanism 

Is Religion Needed to Prevent Existential Despair? 

When Conservative Jewish Rabbis Hide their Atheism

Why would God Care about Morality? 

Why God is a Lovecraftian Monster

Christianity and Islam

Christianity’s Betrayal of the Axial Age 

Assessing the Christ Myth Theory 

Clarifying and Debating the Christ Myth Theory 

Clarifying and Debating the Christ Myth Theory: Round Two 

Should You Believe Jesus Was Historical?

The Mythic Core of the Christian Narrative

Jesus and Osiris: How Christianity Adapted Egyptian Myths 

The Impure Jewishness of Christianity’s Origin 

The Divergent Countercultures of Socrates and Jesus

How Christians Misunderstand the Nature of Religion 

How Apologists Evade the Christ Myth Theory 

Christianity’s Gross Expropriation of Judaism 

Did Jesus Conquer Rome or did Rome Conquer Jesus? 

The Irony of Jesus’s Short-Lived Victory Over Rome 

Christianity Turned Jesus into a Paper Tiger

Was Christian Self-Sacrifice Meant for the Dark Age? 

Augustine, Luther, and the Rise of Post-Christian Culture 

Surveying Christianity’s Internal Conflicts

Christianity’s Miracle: It’s the Planet’s Most Annoying Religion

The Mythic Jesus and the Fragmentation of Shamanism 

Jungians Use Psychology to Fudge the Merits of Religion

The Charade of Alvin Plantinga’s Philosophical Theism

An Atheist Eavesdrops on a Clash Between Christians 

The Ground of All Beings and the Question of Atheism’s Absurdity

Do Modern Liberals Owe Everything to Christianity? 

Catholic Sanctimony and the Alleged Naturalness of Moral law 

Edward Feser’s Casuistic Word Games and Bigotries 

Pointless Niceties in Wrangling with Catholic Pedantry 

The Classical Theist’s Naïve Optimism about Reason 

The So-Called Elite Conception of God

Atheists Make Better Modern Citizens Than Theists

The Vaunted Catholic Deconstruction of Our Secular Age 

The Catholic Church’s Feeble Lies About Atheism

Deconstructing Bishop Baron’s Case for Christianity 

The Gods of Philosophers and the Unwashed Masses

John Lennox’s Devious Reasons for being a Christian 

Is the Catholic’s God a Politician?

The Age-old Catholic Mastery of Disneyfication

Christianity’s Kafkaesque Hell 

Is Christianity so Bizarre that it Must be True? 

Christianity is the World’s Strangest Religion

Father Casey's Challenge to Find the Best Atheists 

Why Not Even Catholic Casuistry Can Hide the Scope of Human Freedom 

Christians Should Reject Christ Along with Thor and Hermes 

Catholic Obtuseness and Christianity’s Decline 

No, Christians, Morality Isn’t Miraculous 

Even Atheists Can Denounce Evil 

Who is Humbler, Theists or Atheists? 

Christians Downplay the Need to Fear a Monstrous God 

Has Christian History Been a Unique Benefit? 

The Atheistic Relevance of the World’s Many Religions

The Farce of Vox Day’s Alt-Right Case Against Atheism

The Futile Ploys of the Intellectual Christian 

The Lame Sophistry of Christian Apologetics 

Who’s More Obnoxious, Conservative or Liberal Christians? 

When the Cancer of Fundamentalism Migrates to Politics

Deconstructed Faith and the Comeuppance of Americanized Christianity 

The Fad of Wokefying Evangelical Christianity

The Platitudes of Reconstructed Christianity 

The False Fronts of Liberal and Conservative Christianity

The Feebleness of “Backyard Church’s” Ten Arguments for Theism 

Dan Foster’s Lame Test for the Divinity of Inner Voices 

If Religions are Natural, does that Undermine Atheism?

Let’s Go Shopping as I Explain Why Jesus had to Die

Retreating to Faith When Struck by Unarmed “Militant” Atheism 

Is Jesus’s Character Miraculous? 

Can Christians and Atheists Disagree in Good Faith? 

Christendom’s Betrayal of Jesus's Counterculture 

The Church’s Scandalous Betrayal of Jesus

Americanized Christianity: A Galaxy Apart from Jesus 

A Reminder to Modern Christians: Your Hypocrisy is Disgusting 

Jesus’s Counterculture and the Christian Abomination

Crocodile Tears for Cultural Christianity

Decrying the Prosperity Gospel of Americanized Christianity

The American Duo of Political Christianities

Trump is a Flawless American Christian

The Fake Religion Behind Trump's Fake Presidency 

The Clash of Progressive and Evangelical Christianity

Top Three Criticisms of Christianity 

The Sin of Trying to Rationally Justify Christian Beliefs 

No, Dear Christians, God isn’t Love 

Feeble Defenses of the Platitude that God is Love 

Does Metaphysics Show that God is Love?

Did Divine Love Create Black Holes and Quantum Weirdness?

Paul’s Epistles: Epitomes of Christian Obnoxiousness 

The Maker of Billions of Galaxies has a Grudge Against Gays 

Saint Paul’s Tribal Demonization of His Critics

The Wily Church's Switcheroo 

Faith, Forensics, and the Absurd in Christianity: A Dialogue

Atheists Should Welcome Christianity’s Secret Lesson

How Christianity Doomed Itself by Promoting its Myth as History 

The Contrivance of the Risen Jesus’s Short Time on Earth

Jesus’s Resurrection and Evangelical Showmanship: Part One

Jesus’s Resurrection and Evangelical Showmanship: Part Two 

Wouldn’t the Resurrected Jesus Have Been Just a Horrific Zombie Monster? 

The Eucharist: Source of the Zombie Cannibal Mythos 

Jesus the Lamb is Coming Soon to Rule 

The Enigma of Yahweh's Sole Avatar 

Jesus Died for God’s Sins 

Christianity Demonizes Modern Progress 

Christianity has Always Been Anti-Modern 

Is There a Good Reason to be Christian? 

The Deeper Reason Why Skeptics Should Scoff at Christian Miracles 

Why Tim Andersen Fails to Reconcile Science and Religion

Spoiling “Backyard Church’s” Idyllic Barbecue 

The Emptiness of Liberal Christianity

Christian Salesmanship and the Trivializing of Fiction 

Why Few Christians Carry “Jesus Saves!” Signs in the Rain

A Primer for Christians and Skeptics

Nietzsche and the Creativity of Losers 

The Christian Ethos and the Primacy of Aesthetic Meaning

The Audacity of the Quran 

Why Muslims Can’t Laugh at Themselves 

Why do Conservative Muslim Men Hate Women?

Eastern Religions and Mysticism

The Nightmare of God  

The Dark Secret of Spirituality 

The Antisocial Implications of Mystical Monism 

What is Life’s Cosmic Role?

The Clash Between Ancient and Modern Sages 

The Daoist’s Futile Rejection of Humanism 

The Clash Between Daoists, Buddhists, and Modern Humanists 

Religion's Coverups of Civilization’s Spiritual Purpose

Are We All Illusions that Lead God Astray?

Buddhism and The Venture of Limited Selves 

Buddhism and The Threat of Nihilism 

Buddhist Nirvana and The Consolation of Nihilism 

The Incoherence of Basic Buddhism

Enlightened Buddhists Shouldn’t be Compassionate 

Buddhas are Nihilist Observers, Not Compassionate Saints 

Buddhas Aren’t Slaves to Saintliness

Cosmic Neutrality and the Paradox of the Bodhisattva’s Virtue 

The Meeting of Alien and Deluded Minds in Mahayana Buddhism 

Where Are All the Buddhist Critics of Consumer Culture?

The Hypocrisies of Early Buddhists and Secular Humanists 

From Buddhist Serenity to Existential Horror

Marquis de Sade versus the Buddha

The Absurdity of Godlessness

Why Theism and Atheism are both Laughable 

The Best Religious Response to Atheism is Two Words Long 

Godless Societies are as Irrational as Religious Ones 

Consumerism is as Irrational as Fundamentalist Religion 

The Poison Pills of Liberal Institutions

Do Theists and Atheists have the same Deepest Experience? 

Do Atheists and Theists have the Same Burden of Proof? 

The Atheist’s Supposedly Grim Explanatory Burden

Do Atheists Have or Lack a Belief In God? 

Atheism and the Burden of Refuting the Preposterous 

The Pragmatic Case for Atheism

The Obvious Way that Science Proves Atheism 

Science Made Theism Archaic 

Modern Self-Deification and the Array of Religions

Why Babies are Right to be Atheists 

No, Atheists Aren’t Illogical, Cowardly Boors and Bigots

Thomas Huxley’s Scientism and the Agnostic’s False Modesty 

Alex O’Connor’s Agnosticism and Access Journalism

What's more Absurd, God or Godless Nature? 

Atheism’s Stunning Upshot: Life Derives from Nonlife 

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

Must Atheists Prove There’s No God? 

Is Atheism Just an Excuse to Sin? 

Does Science Preclude Atheism because Atheism Destroys Reason?

Are Atheists Impudent for Flouting Civilized Traditions?

What’s the Strongest Atheistic Argument?

Will There Ever be an Honourable Religion? 

Religion’s Existential Status and a Clash of Atheists

The Existential Choice between Modernity and Religion 

Atheists are More Spiritual than Most Religious Folks

Slaves of Religion and The Liberated Victims of Modernity

God, Idols, and the Incoherence of Secularism 

Why Existentialism Should Replace Spirituality 

Are Liberal Principles Just Godless Versions of Christian Myths?

Decoding the Cosmic Meaning of the Zombie Motif

What is Godlessness?

Hypermodern Religion from the Ashes

Top Three Criticisms of Atheism 

Why Even Atheists Cry Out to God 

The Ruse of the Conservative’s Pragmatic Case Against Atheism

Are Modern Secularists as Hypocritical as Most Christians?

Is Atheism Progressive? 

Is Secular Thought Progressive or Self-Destructive? 

Is Civilization Doomed Without Religion? A Dialogue

Should Atheists Respect the Placebo of Religion? 

Must Religions be Lamely Theistic to be Socially Useful? A Dialogue

Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s Muddled Response to the Nietzschean Challenge 

How Liberal Tolerance for Religious Absurdities Harms Atheists 

Is Atheism Driving Americans Towards Neo-Pagan Tribalism? 

The Call for an Atheist Counterattack Against Christian Nationalism

Do Humans Deserve Special Treatment? 

Humans Belong to a Unique Biological Kingdom

Secular Humanism’s Whitewashing of Our Relationship to Nature 

Can Humanism Solve the ‘Meaning Crisis?’

Should Dostoevsky’s Underground Man Embarrass Atheists?

Are Atheists Overconfident in Reason?

Scientism and the Downfall of New Atheism 

The Irrelevance of New Atheists and Trumpian “Christians”

Trampling the Record of Neil deGrasse Tyson’s Scientistic Confusions

Is Science Immune from Criticism if it Drives Civilizational Progress? 

Overtones of the Meme that Science Explains “How Nature Works” 

The Miracle of Human Ideals in a Cosmic Wasteland

The Kernel of Truth in Neil deGrasse Tyson’s Juvenile Scientism 

Is Science Enough for a Cosmic Perspective? 

How Philosophy Creates a Cosmic Perspective in God’s Absence 

The Cosmic Poem that Spoils Galileo’s Bleak Equations 

Prophets and Saints are Always on Their Deathbed 

Everyone’s Enlightened When They’re Dying 

Cosmic Perils and the Bright Side of Death

Syntheism and the Prospect of a Spiritual Atheistic Religion 

Can Atheists be Pantheists? 

The World Can be Sacred to Atheists Too

The Veiled Collusion of the Arts and Sciences 

God, Atheism, and the Astonishing Fact that Nature Exists 

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

Atheism and the Endlessness of Explanation 

Can Naturalness be Naturalized? 

The Profound Mystery of a Godless Natural Order

Our Hubristic Theories of Everything 

The Collapse of New Atheism and the Rise of Godless Culture 

The Social Butterfly’s Flight from Atheism

The Menace of Nihilism: Whether All Things Come to Nothing

A Flaw in Matt Dillahunty’s Atheism 

The Quest for Godless Honour 

Godless Honour for Human nature 

Godless Honour and the Descent of Reason 

Godless Honour and the Trap of Empowerment 

Godless Honour and the Free Fall of Liberty

Godless Honour and the Pursuit of Pleasure 

Godless Honour and the Tragedy of Art 

The Atheist Writer’s Conundrum in Engaging with Religious Commenters

Secular versus Religious Enlightenment 

Who’s More Enlightened, Meditating Monks or Progressive Industrialists? 

Prophetic Insights in the Cosmic Void: A Dialogue

Is Life an Accident or the Result of Monstrous Causes?

Life’s Absurdity and the True Threat of Nihilism

The Prospects of Heroism despite the Eventual Cosmic Equilibrium

History

From Prehistoric Naivety to Hypermodern Alienation 

Were Prehistoric People Childlike? 

How All Cultures Have Absurd Origins 

Psychopathy is the Linchpin of Civilizations 

Prehistoric Anarchists, Civilized Dominators, and Alienated Posthumans

Have We Been Conned Into Civilization? 

Civilization is like a Ponzi Scheme

Are Cultures Just Big, Compromised Cults? 

Unmasking the Cultish Traits of Mainstream Societies

How the Mass Mind Absorbs Potent Countercultures 

Tribal Antics and Sappy Humanist Scolding

The Bitter Ironies of Historical Progress 

America’s Reasonable Dread of Progress

Cycles, Progress, and the Clash of Civilizations 

Noble Lies and the Recurring Withdrawals of Neo-Shamans 

Must Civilization be Saved by Neoshamans? 

Modernity is Countercultural, So It’s Doomed 

A Lament for the Last Days of Modernity

Should We Psychoanalyze the Mystics of the Axial Age? 

The Alt-Right’s Reverence for the Naturalness of Capitalism 

How Artistic Standards Can Lead Philosophers Astray 

The Perverse Thanking of Christendom for Modern Progress 

No, Secular Humanists Don’t Owe Their Morals to Christianity

Facets of Childishness in Ancient and Modern Societies 

How to Find the Absurdist Comedy in Historical Progress 

How We Hallucinate the Legal Fiction of Private Property 

Philosophy’s Childishness and History’s Anticlimax 

Why Disneyland and Heaven are for Children 

The Vindication of Autocracy in the Face of Wild Nature 

The Top 3 Prizes in Nature’s Dangerous Game

Hotheads and Cooler Heads: How Climate Decides Who’s Free 

How the Ice Age Turbocharged Human Intelligence

Does Global Warming Guarantee Autocracy in the USA? 

Does the Nordic Model Work Only in a Cold Climate? 

How Africa’s Climate Bakes its Ethnic Divisions 

Why are the Planet’s Hottest Places Still War Torn? 

Trendy Liberals are Too Tribal to Help Us All Progress

Do American and Islamic Cultures Cater to Prairies and Deserts?

Is the Talk of Our “Modernity” Just an Empty Boast? 

Has Modernity Always Been Just a Sham?

Postmodernity: When Progress Becomes Poisonous 

From the Age of Reason to Postmodern Sophistry 

Faceless Masses and Cheap Tribal Identities 

Modernity Secularizes the Axial Age’s Moral Absolutes

Can Noble Lies Sustain Our Godless Progress? 

Hanzi Freinacht and the Apocalypse of Modern Enlightenment

Can Education Save Us From the Coming Dark Age?

The Quixotic Quest for Cosmic Progress 

Is Progress a Revolt Against Nature’s Wildness? 

The Wisdom History Teaches Us 

Is Justice a Lower-Class Conceit?

Shakespeare’s Pantheistic Deflation of Art

Is Progress Wise and Sustainable? 

The Impudence of Gardeners

Wokeness is a Triumph of Liberal Decadence

Mind and Civilization as Simulacra

What is Civilization’s Impact on Manliness? 

The Incoherence of Manliness 

Cultural Ironies and Men’s Expendability 

Toxic Masculinity and Late-Modernity’s Ideal Man 

The Neoshamanic Quest Can Solve the Crisis of Manliness 

The Centrist Conceits of Scott Galloway’s Advice for Men

Femininity and the Humanist Restoration of Goddess Culture

Why We’re Killing Off All Wildlife 

The Ancient Cold War Between Intellectuals and the Unreflective Masses 

Mass Society’s Triumph Over Intellectuals 

Alienated Intellectuals aren’t Fully Alive

The Last Laugh of the Intellectuals 

The Tension Between Winners and Losers in Life 

How Germany Thrived and Died by its Culture of Excellence

When Theists and Atheists Make for Strange Bedfellows 

Full Circle: The Resurgence of Animism in Modern Scientific Pantheism

Could Supernatural Agents be Disguised as Natural Processes?

Should Transhumanists be Pessimistic About Human Nature? 

Techno-Toys Don’t Make the Transhuman 

What’s Behind Big Tech’s Cult of Transhumanism?

Does Transhumanism Rehash the Delusions of Progressive Religion? 

The Stakes of Transhuman Godhood 

Is Technology Turning Our Species into a New Force of Nature? 

Religions are Tedious Obstacles to Transhuman Glory 

The Technological Atonement for Transhuman Gods

The Transhuman Judgment of Civilizations

The Transgendered are Pioneers of Transhumanism 

There Will be No Manly Transhumans 

The Theology of Artificial Intelligence

Will Religion be Vindicated When AIs Rule Over Us as Gods? 

Future History and Fear of the Transhuman

Ethics

How to Live Well in an Indifferent Universe 

What’s the Most Important Human Trait?

Are We Guilty of Progressing? 

Life’s Key Secrets are Theatrical 

Are We Ever Awake and Not Daydreaming? 

Turn Your Cynicism Into Wonder

The Uncomplicated Core of Existentialism 

The Link Between the Sublime and the Ridiculous 

Atlas and the Burden of Civilized Lifestyles 

Go Deeper than Aldous Huxley’s “Perennial Philosophy”

The Cosmic Role of Godless People

How to be Existentially Mature in an Infantile Society 

Why Personal Authenticity Still Matters 

A Moral Quandary in a Speeding Bus

Morality is the Heroically Creative Use of Awe and Dread 

Artistry Matters More than Truth in a Postmodern Society

No, Nihilists, Morality Isn’t Vacuous in Nature 

The Misanthropic Humanist

When Misanthropes Claim the Moral High Ground

The One Occult Project that’s Indispensable 

Human Pride Isn’t Just Arbitrary Arrogance

Must All Wisdom be Perverted for it to have Mass Appeal? 

Progress and the Daemonic Critique of Naturalness

The War on the Universe’s Strangeness

Is Civilization the Triumph of Slave Morality?

Can Pragmatists be Existentialists? 

The Myth that Truth, Beauty, and Goodness Go Together 

Can We Justify Humanist Values?

How Society Splinters when Life is Absurd 

Is Happiness Ever Honourable if Life is Absurd?

Happiness is for Sheep 

Who Deserves to be Happy? 

The Disgrace of the Happy Adult 

Improve Yourself by Earning Melancholy 

The Melancholia Industry for the Rest of Us 

Friendship is Social Engineering for the Self-Help Crowd 

A Sobering Look at the Self-Help Mindset

We’ve Outgrown Spiritual Pursuits

Being Happy is the Meaning of Life — for Adult Babies 

Which Lives are Best-Lived or Wasted? 

Hypocrisy is Inescapable for Internally Divided Brains

The Secret Known to Children and Near-Death Adults

Why Nice Guys Finish Last 

From Eckhart Tolle’s “Power of Now” to the Horror of Nature

The Sophistical Fiasco of Positive Thinking 

How a Positive-Thinking Self-Help Writer Deals with Criticism

How Trendy Stoicism Assimilates the Counterculture 

Stoicism Has Always Been Hackneyed Centrist Propaganda 

Stoic Pantheism and the Rise of the Alienated Sage 

The Fake Stoicism of Ryan Holiday’s Self-Help Advice 

Self-Help Know-it-Alls and the Cult of Happiness

Outgrowing the Drugs that Addict Us to Life

Individuality: A Burden of Elites and Paupers

Jordan Peterson’s Muddled Worldview 

Jordan Peterson’s Jumble of Grievances 

Jordan Peterson’s Five Dodges of the Question of God’s Existence 

Jordan Peterson Thinks Atheism is Groundless 

Jordan Peterson’s Sophistry Against Atheism

Why Does Jordan Peterson Resent His Critics? 

Just Two of Jordan Peterson’s Howlers 

The Cluelessness of Jordan Peterson’s “Conservative Manifesto” 

Does the Existence of Love Refute Cynicism? 

Know Yourself and Renounce Self-Help Therapy 

Help for the Fake Self-Help Industry 

Charlatans of the Self-Help Hoax

Childhood Innocence and Godless Morality

The Meaningful Life is Storied 

The Storied Self: How the “Spirit” is Just a Dramatic Plot

The Fictions of Moralists and Hypocrites

Childishness as the Root of Human Brutality 

The Childishness of Ordinary Adulthood 

The Ironic Nostalgia for Childhood Naivety 

There is No Pure Adulthood for Civilized Folks

Mental Illness as a Failing Departure from the Norms of Mass Illness

Is Success Ever Earned? 

Misaligned AI and Philosophy’s Surrender to Capitalism

Would Societal Collapse Improve or Degrade Us?

Why is Murder Abhorrent?

Popular Farces

American Infantilization and the Age of Reason 

Progress and American Infantilism 

Can Consumers Escape being Infantilized? 

The Acute Meaning Crisis for Spoiled Consumers

Corporations Are Our Superheroes

What is a Wasted Life? 

Selling Superstardom with the Myth of the Hero’s Journey 

The Villain’s Journey Towards Embracing Antisocial Reality 

Social Progress and the Taming of Modern Heroes 

The Philosophical Relevance of Science Fiction

UFOs as Apocalyptic Threats to Human Pride 

Apocalyptic Revelations and the UFO Coverup

Is the Mind the Tool-User or a Tool? 

How the Mind is the Brain’s Clothing that Mistakes Itself for a Spirit

How Technology Embodies our Alienation from Nature 

The Internet’s Role in Fostering Postmodern Nihilism

How the Mind’s Mastery of the Body is the Paradigm for Technologies 

The Technological Test of Human Pride 

High Tech’s Threat to Human Pride

Technology Sings Hymns to Our Impending Godhood 

Warhammer 40k’s Grimdark Challenge to Humanists 

Escaping Cosmic Dismay with Feel-Good Platitudes

The Varieties of Magic in a Disenchanted Cosmos

The Internet Exposes Freedom’s Downside 

Instagram at the Frontier of Our Hypocrisy in the Wild

How We Hide the Conflict Between Capitalism and Technological Progress 

Why Keep Hustling When Machines Do All the Real Work? 

Precious Charades and the Weird Surge of Bullshit Jobs 

Has the “Bullshit Jobs” Theory Been Debunked?

The Irony of Spiritual Bonds in a Decadent Technosphere 

Civility has Already Automated Our Jobs and Public Lives

Why are Sacred Spaces so Easily Spoiled? 

Death Desecrates the Only Holy Aberration

Consciousness and Rankings in the Labyrinth

Social Grooming and the Meeting of Naked Minds 

Helpless Passengers of Automated Progress 

The Dark Reality of Self-Help Therapy 

Is the Law of Attraction Infantile? 

The Haughtiness of “Success Magazine”

Modernity and the Anguish of Artists 

How Artists and Scientists Both See Through the World 

The Neoshamans of Standup Comedy

The Bizarre Biases in American Censorship

Why Art Shouldn’t be Bought or Sold 

Art’s Purpose When AIs Generate All Possible Contents 

Music for Strong and Weak Generations 

Taylor Swift and Art’s Neoshamanic Purpose

Bob Ross’s Mantras Tame Cthulhu

A Toast to Generation X

Woke Culture and Toxic Femininity 

Foucault And The Bogus War For Social Justice 

Woke Hollywood and the Dark Web

Woke Propaganda and the Fear of Art 

Is Hollywood’s Identity Politics “Humanistic”? 

The Wokeness Charade that Stifles Thought and Art 

Why Humanists Should Denounce Cancel Culture

The “Woke” are Sleepwalking in a Fog of Western Decadence 

When Leftist Political Correctness is Just Obnoxious Hypocrisy 

Left-Wing Decadence and the Return of Matriarchal Culture 

Is “Wokeness” a “Protected Category” on Medium?

Shakespeare Foreshadowed Alt-Right Sexism 

Who has the Best Takedown of Toxic “Wokeness”? 

“Wokeness” and the Corruption of Liberalism

The Twin Cults of Trumpism and Wokeness 

The Trump Cult and the Albatrosses Around America’s Neck

Why Conservatives are Better Than Liberals at Politics (and Why That’s Not a Compliment)

The Curse of Outer Beauty

The COVID Quarantine: Bane of Extroverts 

The Hypocrisy of Thanking First Responders 

A Toast to Introverts

Masculinity and Outsider Virtues

Incels and the Search for Posthuman Heroes 

What do Will Smith and Vladimir Putin have in Common?

Beyond the Shibboleth of “Racism”

The Tragic Overkilling of George Floyd

The Welcome Frauds of Religion and Secularism 

The Global Prominence of Bait-and-Switch Frauds

Secular Dominance and the Endpoints of Interfaith Dialogue 

Anxiety and the Condemnation of Foolish Societies 

Psychiatrists Don’t Dictate Who’s Mentally Healthy 

The Clash Between Conservative Psychiatrists and Liberal Philosophers 

Social Conformity and Psychiatry’s Authority as a Science: A Dialogue

The Peril of Taking Comfort in Alien Norms

Are Religionists and Capitalists Mentally Disordered? 

Should We Adapt to Vulgar or to Intellectual Environments? 

Death By Expertise: The Decadence of Economists and Medical Doctors

Craving Authenticity in a Flood of Lies 

How We Lose Ourselves in a Stream of Digital Refuse 

False Hope and the Secret of Superstardom 

Big Tech Killed the Superstar Artist

Can Americans Fix their Democracy with Social Media? 

Social Media and the Triumph of Extraverted Shallowness

Exposing the Sham of Televised Political Debates

Is Deadpool the Most Enlightened Superhero?

Mass Hallucination and The Dream of Waking Life

Saturated in Fiction: Consensus Reality as a Web of Stories

Movies and Television

Assessing the Meaning of Life in Pixar’s “Soul”

From Pipe to Software: “Brazil” and the Evolution of Bureaucracies 

Depths of Subversion in “The Green Knight” 

Outcasts in Cinema: “Saint Maud,” “Kajillionaire,” and “Nomadland” 

Existential Morality in “Crimes and Misdemeanors” 

Intimacy in “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind” 

Technopower and Strange Salvation in “Dune” 

“Barbie” Should Have Been More Existential

Revelatory Monologues in “Amanda Knox” 

Hyperreality In “Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain” 

The Rajneeshees’ Unmasking of American Hypocrisy in “Wild Wild Country” 

The Parody of Religion in “Midnight Mass” 

The Monstrous God of “Hellbound”

Rick and Morty: The Cosmic Horror of Perfected Science 

A Toast to Trustworthy Movie Reviews

The Art of Writing

Why Write Anything Anymore? 

Writing With Grit Against the Digital Tide

Should Writers Want Huge Audiences? 

Why I Must Now be Rude and Stop Replying to All the Comments I Get

The Lure of Chatty Writing 

How to Find Childlike Wonder in Your Writing 

No One Likes Talking About Men

How to be Popular and Fake on Medium 

Tool-Users and the Mastery of Writing

AI Slop and the Artist’s Struggle

The Hiding of Sophistry in Skimmable Texts 

The Corporate Source of Social Media Sophistry 

Spot the Difference Between Honest and Dishonest Writing 

Why Does Medium Still Allow Hit and Runs? 

The Audience’s Capture of Medium’s Curators 

The Mind of the Listicle Reader

A Paranoid End-of-the-Year Update

When You’re Too Refined to “Clap” on Social Media 

How Ranking Algorithms Favour Uplifting Content 

Artists versus the Algorithm: Is the Internet Good for Art?

Come See the Hacks at the Cyber Circus Freak Show!

From Academic To Freelance Writing: Coping With The Culture Shock 

How Would a Saint or a Prophet Reply to Rude Online Comments?

How Zulie Rane Whitewashes the Selling of Stories 

The Puzzle of Why Zulie Rane Blocked Me for Criticizing Her Sales Advice 

Nicolas Cole’s Popular Sophistry 

How Hacks Sell the “Law of Attraction” with Sophistry 

Should Writers Advertise for the Big Tech Platforms They Use? 

How a Commercial Success Can be an Artistic and a Moral Travesty

Mind Cafe's Infantilizing Standards 

The Deliberate Shallowness of “Writers’ Blokke”

The Telltale Confusions of “The Ascent’s” Submission Guidelines 

How “The Startup” Whitewashes the Exploitation of Content Creators 

Haunted by the Mythic Success of Lowbrow Content 

There Was No Poem At Biden’s Inauguration 

The Wonder and the Rarity of Poems

The Comical Sex Act

Sex: The Kryptonite for All High-Minded Saviours

Is Romantic Love Immoral? 

Tribalism and the Open Question of Love’s Moral Impact 

Why Sex Feels Weird to Proud Planet-Conquerors

Romanticizing the Crudity of Sex 

Shouldn’t Incels and Femcels Cancel Each Other Out? 

Mother Nature is a Pedophile 

Love is Nature’s Compensation for Cosmic Horror

Why Many Intellectuals Despise Romantic Love 

Do the Enlightened Few have Moral Obligations?

Ascetics are Harbingers of Transhuman Power Over Nature

Sex Between Minds: A Human Stamp On Our Animality 

Erotica and Some Hidden Meanings of Sex 

Political Travesties

The Theistic Priming of Oligarchy 

What Made Napoleon the Forerunner of Modern Dictators?

Are White Men Privileged Because They Aim to be Sociopathic?

What Does It Mean To Speak “Politically”?

The Repugnance of Politico-Speak 

Napoleonic Cynics and the Pejorative Sense of “Ideology”

“Public Relations” as an Elite PsyOp Targeting Human Herds

The Mystery of Why Journalists Still Interview Politicians

The Orwellian Ruse of the Political Apology 

The Bizarre Journalistic Pretense that All Oligarchs are Russian 

Tyranny is Unspeakable on Corporate Media

The American Myth of the “Undecided Voter” 

The Farce of Fact-Checking a Hyperreality

Bureaucrat meets Philosopher 

The Curse of Bureaucratic Myopia at Kindle Direct Publishing 

The Kafkaesque Blindness of Amazon’s Content Review Team

A Blockheaded Bureaucracy’s Futile Mischief

Politician meets Philosopher 

Why Winners are Cynical and Losers are Full of Ideologies

American Paranoia and the Modern Legacy of Nihilism 

Are Our Best Practices Evolved or Centrally Planned?

America’s Odd History of Close Elections

The Fake Pence-Harris Debate 

There Are No Conservative Debaters 

Charlie Kirk’s Epic Trolling of Colleges

Top Four Criticisms of Conservatism 

Conservatism's Hollowness and the Ruse of the Political Spectrum 

The Challenge for Anti-Trump Conservatives

Conservatives Must Think People are Just Animals 

Why Conservatives Only Grudgingly Approve of Modernity 

Nature Still Rules Us Through Conservative Prejudices 

The Conservative’s Bad-Faith Flight from Humanism

Telling the Brutal Truth about Conservatism

The Charade of Intellectual Conservatism 

The Mirage Of A Conservative Credo

How All Conservative Policies Stem From Social Darwinism

The Casuistry of Burke’s Moderate Conservatism 

Conservativism Began with Edmund Burke’s Fallacies 

Thomas Paine and the Perils of “Natural Rights”

Joseph de Maistre and Carl Schmitt: Conservatives Who Said the Quiet Part Out Loud 

Nazi Philosophy’s Revenge on Liberal Societies?

GK Chesterton’s Sneaky Ode to Tradition 

William F. Buckley Jr. had No Conservative Philosophy

The Red Herring of Michael Oakeshott’s “Conservative Character” 

Russell Kirk’s Futile Principles of Conservatism 

Why Conservatives Loved Eric Voegelin’s Take on Modern “Gnosticism”

The Lameness of Roger Scruton’s Conservative Euphemisms

Speaker Mike Johnson Hides the Medieval Essence of Conservatism 

There is No Conservative Philosophy 

A Failure of Gaslighting: The Decline of Project 2025 

American Conservatives Keep Hiding Their Medieval Prejudices 

Four Strains of Conservative Medievalism 

Family Values and Individualism: The Conservative’s Hodgepodge

The Ploy of the "Imaginative Conservative" 

The Oxymoron of “Conservative Humanism”

The Subterfuge of Neoconservatives 

Are Conservatives More Pragmatic Than Liberals?

The Flimsiness of Tucker Carlson’s Populism 

The Blind Lead the Blind in MAGA’s Idiocracy

How Trumpism Reveals the Black Hole of Conservatism 

Yes, Trump’s Fascism Makes Him Conservative  

The Pedantry of Wondering Whether Trump’s a Fascist

Conservatives Have Always Been Antimodern

MAGA Trumpers and Hippies Make Strange Bedfellows

Jordan Peterson’s Normalizing of Trump’s “Presidency” 

The Humanist Smackdown of Alt-Right Prejudices

“Intellectual Conservatives” and their Harmless Boogeymen 

Conservatives Only Wish Their Pet Resentments Were Righteous 

Conservative Savagery and the Overturning of Roe v Wade 

The Charade of the “Pro-Life” Stance on Abortion

Conservatives Revere the Wilderness, not Civilization 

Trouncing Yoram Hazony’s Nationalist Conservatism

The Abomination of Christian Nationalism 

The Grotesque Conceits of Christian Nationalists 

The Travesty of Christian Nationalism 

The Orwellian Gambit of Christian Nationalism

Is America being Punished with a Dark Age for Abandoning its "Christian" roots? 

The Sci-Fi Allure of Curtis Yarvin’s Anarcho-Capitalism 

What’s the Fastest Way to Forge an Intergalactic Empire? 

The Folly of Running Society like a Corporation 

Peter Thiel’s Incoherent Propaganda

“Dark Enlightenment” and the Tragedy of Corporate Hubris

Murray Rothbard’s Incoherent Libertarian Screed 

The Libertarian’s Sanctification of Capitalism

The Trojan Horse of George Will’s Conservatism

The Arbitrariness of George Will’s Conservatism 

The Slipperiness of Conservative Economics

Rebuffing Ben Shapiro’s Sales Pitch for God and Liberty  

The Sophistry of Ayn Rand’s Case for Ethical Selfishness 

The Inhumanity of Ayn Rand’s Libertarian Mythos

The Conservative Misunderstanding of Liberty 

A Critique of Libertarian Self-Ownership

Top Three Criticisms of Liberalism 

The Challenge for Enlightened Liberals

Aleksandr Dugin’s Critique of Liberalism 

Putin’s Hypocrisy and What’s at Stake in the Rule of Law 

The Laws of War are Feats of Orwellian Gaslighting 

The Smuggling of Chivalry into the Laws of War

Democratizing Decadence: From Monarch to Liberated Everyman 

Killing in the Names of Jesus and Canadian Imperialism 

Mark Carney’s Misplaced Faith in Trump’s Rationality

There Will be No Great Centrist Dialogue in America

The Ruse of Joe Biden’s Technocratic Centrism 

An Omen of Joe Biden’s Timidity 

Seeing Through the Platitudes of Biden's Neoliberalism 

How to Decode Trump’s Vileness and Biden’s Hollowness 

The Debacle of the Biden-Trump Debate 

Should an Immune Biden Order Trump’s Assassination?

The God Complex and the Prospects of Technocracy 

Why China’s Pragmatism Should Haunt the West 

The Façade of China’s Robotic Wisdom 

Does China’s Intolerance of the Arts Count Against Atheism? 

The Clash Between American and Chinese Atheism 

Why America Bet Everything on AI and China Excels at Manufacturing

Is Israel David or Goliath in the Middle East? 

Is Israel Blaming All Palestinians for Hamas’s Terrorism?

Reckoning with the Muslim World’s Loathing of Israeli Jews 

Israel as the Vanguard in a Clash of Civilizations 

The Clash between Medievalism and Modernity in the Middle East 

Confronting an Islamist Diatribe Against Modernity

Legal Fictions and Israel’s Status at the United Nations 

The Irony of Jewish Fundamentalism in Modern Israel 

Trumpian Israel Meets Arab Medievalism

Femininity and Masculinity in American Politics 

Why Democrats Are Inept At Politics 

The Hidden Depths of the Democrats’ Ineptitude 

How Democrats Bring a Knife to a Gun Fight 

Why Conservatism Still Exists in the Liberal Age 

The Horror of American Politics: All Dragons, No Knights 

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

There Will be No Left-Wing Version of Trump in America 

America’s Second, Lopsided Civil War

The Toothless Rage of Vaccinated Americans

How Democratic Triangulation Drove Republicans into Trumpian Lunacy 

How to Defuse Trumpian Trolling on Vaccines

How to Fake Politics in the USA

Donald Trump has Already Won Everything

The Mysterious Timing of Trump’s Ascent

Why Democrats are as Nihilistic as President Trump 

The Telltale Contrast Between Biden’s and Trump’s Speeches 

The Orwellian Meme about Biden’s “Weaponized Justice Department”

The Lame Pearl-Clutching After the Attempted Assassination of Trump 

The Sordid Reasons Why Trump Might Win the 2024 Election 

Blame Effete Democrats’ Hollowness if Trump Beats Harris 

Trump’s Second Term Gifts Liberals a Dark Night of the Soul 

The Reign of Civilized Psychopaths 

Why Trump’s Fascist Evil Conquered America 

Trumpian Evil Is More Seductive than Democratic Lameness

Socialist Fantasies and the Escape from Nature’s Prison

Economic Incantations

Technological Utopia and the Roots of Inequality 

Big Tech Tribalism Crowds Out Science’s Humanist Ethos

Capitalism and Fake Modernity 

Why We Protect Society from the Ravages of Capitalism 

Why We Can’t Imagine the End of Capitalism

Scientism and the Scam of Economic Incantations 

The Cults of Scientism in Philosophy and Economics 

The Scientistic Ruse of Hiding the Economist’s Morality

Is Economics a Pseudoscience? 

Ploys for Exaggerating the Scientific Status of Economics 

Economics and Physics Envy

Economic Canards and the Reality of Capitalism

Britain’s Libertarian Catastrophe and the “Science” of Economics 

Are Monopolies Evil Geniuses or Blundering Fools?

The Bogus Laws of Orthodox Economics

Economic Rationales For A Tyranny of Sociopaths 

How Modern Economics Still Serves the Plutocrats 

Do Economists Presume Everyone’s Selfish? 

How Neoliberals Exploit Economic Scientism to Justify Plutocracy

The Gimmick of Game Theory’s Deflation of Morality 

How the Prisoner of Game Theory Torches Adam Smith’s “Invisible Hand” 

Game-Theoretic Purgatory and the Neoliberal’s Faith in Capitalism 

Is Moral Cooperation Rooted in Nature’s Productivity?

The Ancient Cold War Against The Alienated Superrich 

How Superstars and Losers both Know Life’s Strangeness 

The Capitalist Tyranny of Extraversion 

Dispense with the Confused Ambition of Earning “F-You Money”

Georges Bataille on Free-Market Utopianism 

Whose Voice is Loudest in the Free World?

Why Real Art is Priceless and Most Artists are Poor 

Proof That Free Markets Don’t Reward The Best Work 

Why Only a Few Content Creators can be Superstars 

Should Most Content Creators Fail Because They’re Only Mediocre Talents?

Digitizing the Mind: Why Information won't be Owned 

Hubris and Alienation: The Roots of the Environmental Crisis 

Can We Submit to Nature’s Carbon Cycle?

Are We Naturally Wasteful? 

Should We Scale Back Civilization to Protect All Terrestrial Life?

The Monstrosity of Trump

The Full Monstrosity of Trump 

Trumpism as a Revelation of Evil

Trump, the Reality of Evil, and the Lesser Villainy of Democrats 

Shame on Us for Demonizing Donald Trump’s Mental Disorder

Sources of the Trumpian Ethos

Is President Trump a Tool of Tribal America?

Trump’s America is Un-American

The Enlightened Use of Donald Trump 

The Meaningful Coincidence of Trump and Covid-19 

Atheism and the Power Vacuum of President Trump 

Trump's Inept Totalitarianism 

Overwhelm with Malignancy: The Trump Technique

Why Hasn't Trump Started a War? 

President Trump: Master of Political Entertainment 

Trump, Trolling, and the Re-Wilding of the American Failed State 

The Menace and Conundrum of Trumpian Trolling 

The Masterful Prank of Trumpism

The Direct Democracy of Trump’s Cult 

Trump's Superpower and the Tragedy of the Pied Piper

Grim Theater: the Greater Rationality of Reelecting Donald Trump 

The Trump-Biden Debate and the Travesty of American Politics 

Why President Biden Would Pardon Trump 

Morality after Trump's Desecration of America  

The Guilty Pleasure of Hating Trump

American Malady and the Closeness of Biden’s Victory Over Trump  

The Top 7 Questions for Trapping Trump into Revealing He’s a Fraud  

Why the Trumpian Grotesquery is Happening Now to America 

Should Trump be a Hero to Generation X? 

What Trumpers Share with the OJ Simpson Jurors

Will Donald Trump be Punished or is Liberalism for Chumps?  

Trump’s the Joker for Revealing Our Dark Secret 

Trump’s Hyperreality and the Dread of Culture Creation 

Trump’s the Worst and the Best Nominee for American President 

The Claptrap of “Trump Derangement Syndrome” 

Trump’s Russia Connection Is Too Obvious to Be a Hoax

Trump’s an Avatar of Nature’s Inhumanity 

The Ecstasy and Agony of Being Donald Trump 

Donald Trump is a Nietzschean Hero 

Trump’s Grotesque Need for Gaslighting Isn’t Manly

Trump is the Real Postmodernist 

Postmodern Trump and his Absolute Evil 

Trumpism and the Rise of Meta-Christianity

Trump is a Boon for Cynical Misfits 

Trump’s Belittling of Canada and Obsolete Liberals 

Canadian Trauma and the Horror of Trumpism

Trump’s Second Term is a Natural Disaster 

Is Trumpism Ideological or Psychotic? 

Trump’s Strange Aversion to War 

Trumpism and the Cthulhu Antichrist

A Silver Lining of Trumpian Madness 

Trump’s Revenge Against the Loathsome Elites

Satire

A Plea for Gas-Powered Leaf-Blowers 

The Firing of a Sex Fiend Philosophy Professor 

A Pig Installs a Safe Space in a Slaughterhouse 

I’m Starving Because I Can’t Decide Which Groceries to Buy 

Animals Can Be Scoundrels Too 

A Nazi versus Virtue-Signalling Canadian Politicians