On Medium: Anne Applebaum on MAGA’s Predatory Criminality

Here's an article about how Applebaum misses the big political picture by giving conservatives too much credit in her explanation of Trump's corruption.

On Medium: The Capitalist Theology of Risk-Taking

Here's an article about Scott Galloway’s specious framing of business and romance.

On Medium: From Cosmic Horror to Moral Purpose

Here's an article that provides my answers to AI Claude’s ten existential questions.

On Medium: Trump, Holmes, and the Villain’s Revelatory Monologuing

Read on about the documentary “You Can See Everything” and the fantasy of intellectually trapping Trump.

On Medium: The Mystery of Kyle Kulinski’s Israel Blind Spot

Here's an article on secular humanism, the tragedy of the Middle East, and the leftists' blind spot when it comes to demonizing Israel and revering Palestinians.

On Medium: The Trumpian Apocalypse for Philosophy

Here's an article about whether Trump’s presidency vindicates the postmodern cynics.

On Medium: Conservatism Has Never Been a Real Thing

Read on about the secret behind the phony political spectrum that features liberalism and conservatism.

On Medium: The Muddle of Christian Values

Here's an article that sorts through the implications of religious and secular individualism.

On Medium: Does AI make Philosophy Obsolete?

Read on about philosophy’s role in the age of AI and whether AI undermines modernity's secular humanist ethos.

On Medium: Christian Dystopia and Cosmic Horror

Here's an article about William Lane Craig's account of how Christianity overcomes existential absurdity.

On Medium: The Psychedelic Origin of Religious Concepts

Here's an article about how theology is likely a garbled transmission of altered states of consciousness.

On Medium: We Scapegoat AI-Generated Art by Calling it “Slop”

Read on about how we psyche ourselves up even as we're an increasingly outclassed species.

On Medium: A Secret, Elite Conception of God?

Here's a dialogue on the coherence of arcane theism and whether mysticism withstands naturalist criticism.

On Medium: Scott Jennings’ Orwellian Apology for Trump’s Presidency

Here's an article about Scott Jennings' bizarre Orwellian case for Donald Trump being a commonsensical, pragmatic, empathetic defender of Western civilization.

On Medium: William Lane Craig is Wrong: Atheists Can Overcome Life’s Absurdity

Here's an article about the nonarbitrary grounding of happiness and morality in the civilized revolt against nature.

On Medium: Are There Any Worthy Cults?

Read on about the clash between visionary charisma and social or business skills, a clash that casts doubt on the likelihood of worthy, nonfraudulent cults.

On Medium: Where does Mysticism Fit Into a Naturalist Worldview?

Read on for a dialogue on naturalist criticisms of esoteric theism and mysticism.

On Medium: Mike Johnson’s Stunning Inability to Define “Conservatism”

Here's an article about the reality behind the whitewashing of the Republican agenda.

On Medium: The Sordid Psychology of Conservatism

Read on for a dialogue on conservatism’s untenability in modern times.

On Medium: Pity the Hipster Art Critic

Read on for a review of "the internet's busiest music nerd's" review of a Phoebe Bridgers album.

On Medium: Nature’s Monstrousness and the Manosphere

Read on about whether conservative men scapegoat women for being more “natural.”

On Medium: Commercialized Nerddom at Fan Conventions

Here's a personal report on the commercialized nerddom at Fan Expo Canada.

On Medium: New Atheism and the Herd of WALL-E Slobs

Read on about how the New Atheist’s Trojan horse carried scientism and consumerism.

On Medium: Ryan Holiday is a Sophist, not a Stoic

Read on about how the crucial difference between ancient and modern enlightenment explains the ruse of Ryan Holiday's promotion of self-help Stoicism.

On Medium: Science Traps Philosophical Christian Apologists

Read on about how the fine-tuning argument supports atheism, not theism.

On Medium: Which is Worse for Artists, AI or Capitalism?

Read on for a dialogue on AI, capitalism, and the late-modern artistic struggle.

On Medium: Death Might Be as Unreasonable as the Universe

Here's an article about how existential absurdity is bad news for atheists.

On Medium: Odysseus Got Lost in Christianity

Here's an article about some insights about Christianity gained from a semi-epic struggle in a movie theater.

On Medium: The Strongest Case for the Greatness of Trump’s Presidency

Read on about how President Trump may be like Batman and Dexter Morgan rolled into one.

On Medium: The Mystery of Ted Lasso’s Optimism

Read on about the type of world that could produce a secular Ned Flanders.

On Medium: Why Would God have Created Life?

Here's an article about alienation and the fine-tuning argument for theism.

On Medium: Digital Music Producers Scapegoat Suno

Read on about how the real threat isn’t what digital music producers think it is, and how they shoot the messenger.

On Medium: Do We Envy the Silence of Wild Animals?

Read on for a critique of John Gray’s conservative, Buddhist belittlement of human progress.

On Medium: The Unparalleled Audacity of Trumpian “Christians”

Here's an article about how a grotesque culture like conservative American Christianity can have an unsurprising tribal function.

On Medium: The Best Businesses Are Evil

Read on about capitalism’s amoral logic and the incoherence of liberalism.

On Medium: The Misplaced Fear that Atheists are Untrustworthy

Here's an article that compares monotheistic and natural rationales for morality.

On Medium: The Theist’s Self-Centered Abuse of Probability Theory

Read on about the fallacies of the Anthropic Argument for God's existence.

On Medium: Handy Instructions for Writing Great Poetry

Read on for some advice on writing poetry to avoid saddling readers with poems that ought to be ignored or burned.

On Medium: Dark Pantheism and Our Hollow Maker

Read on about the dire inference from scientific objectification to a horrific ontology that fuels our quest for civilized progress.

On Medium: Is Theism the Best Remedy for Skepticism?

Read on about how to shut down a loony argument for God’s existence, from the need to undermine skeptical doubts.

On Medium: Conservatism is Freakish in Modern Humanist Societies

Read on to see how to correct the confusion in Stephen Miller’s authoritarian screed.

On Medium: Liberal Technocracies are Now Kafkaesque

Read on about the need to critique liberalism after the Trumpian apocalypse.

On Medium: Do Minds Relate Miraculously to the World?

Here's an article that disposes of a frivolous argument for God’s existence, based on the supposed mystery of psychophysical harmony.

On Medium: Trump Triumphs Because His Opponents Are Feeble

Read on about the political conditions of Trump’s revolutionary regime change within the US.

On Medium: Kant and the Mystic: Enlightenment through Cosmic Horror

Read on about whether Kantian epistemology is a mental prison or whether it leaves room for transhuman insights.

On Medium: Faith in a Skygod Must be Absurd

Read on about the problems with monotheism and the social benefit of preposterous lies.

On Medium: “Trumpian Apocalypse” Isn’t Just Hyperbole

Here's an article about the existential implications of Trump’s supervillainy.

On Medium: The Lunatic Sprawl of Deep Time

Here's an article about the inescapable strangeness of nature’s creativity.

On Medium: The Obviousness of God’s “Death” or Modern Cultural Irrelevance

Here's an article about the death of God concept and the irony of Christian theology.

On Medium: Writing About Trump Without Being Preachy

Read on about the meaning of my song about Trump, "We Want it Medieval," and the deeper issues for each side of a tribal dispute.