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.

On Medium: Vagaries of Deep Time

Here's an invitation to listen to my second music album on YouTube, Vagaries of Deep Time.

On Medium: Love is a Refuge from the Degradations of Public Life

Read on about why we prefer romantic intimacy to civility.

On Medium: Can Digital Content Still be Precious?

Read on about the “remixes” of my first album that are out on YouTube.

On Medium: “Rational Proof of God” is Oxymoronic

Read on about a bogus mathematical proof of God's existence, and how theistic apologists often forget how religions work.

On Medium: Tracing the Alienation of the Rich and the Poor

Here's an article about the social dynamics of the billionaire’s partial enlightenment, and what the rich have in common with the poor.

On Medium: Make Friends with Absurdity in Your Worldview

Read on about how we should confront our existential condition with honourable humility.

On Medium: Algos in the Cave

Read on about my first music album, "Algos in the Cave," which is now out on YouTube.

On Medium: Morality’s Grounding in Nature’s Godlessness

Read on about how right and wrong are for people in nature, so theistic rationales for morality are obsolete.

On Medium: Where is Trump’s Impact on the Self-Help Industry?

Read on about whether we should all be striving to be supervillains now.

On Medium: Homeowners Conquer Nature by Mowing the Lawn

Here's an article about the face-saving rationales we use for infantile chores, like mowing the lawn.

On Medium: Monotheists Lack the Moral High Ground

Read on about how divine commandments are for slaves or artifacts, not godlike people.

On Medium: Musical Mana from the AI Gods

Read on about the current algorithmic reckoning for human musicians.

On Medium: The Visceral Sense of Nature’s Unfairness

Read on about how we feel the religious problem of evil in our bones.

On Medium: The Sad Confusions in William Lane Craig’s Case for Christianity

Read on about what happens when an atheist needs to teach a renowned apologist how explanations and myths work.

On Medium: The Perennial Clash Between Normalizers and Radicals

Here's an article about the underlying historical dynamic of social conformity and the prophet’s apocalypse.

On Medium: The Horror of Being a Singularity

Read on about the amorality of Buddhist enlightenment and the nihilistic nature of enlightenment.

On Medium: Did the Early Modern Atheists Personally Attack Religious Folks?

Here's an article that clarifies the roles of argument and explanation in atheism.

On Medium: Shower President Trump with Praise!

Read on about how the obviousness of Trumpian evil gives away the conservative game.

On Medium: The Frustrating Sloppiness of Continental Philosophy

Here's an article about Slavoj Žižek’s rambling about the “parallax view,” and a better way of dealing with natural dichotomies.

On Medium: Trumper Christians Have No Moral High Ground

Here's an article that compares Christian and secular liberal views of morality.

On Medium: Atheistic Morality is Grounded in Horror for Nature

Read on about how the existential perspective makes our taste in moral values nonarbitrary.

On Medium: The Downside of Progressive Bureaucracies

Here's an article about how secular societies may be as flawed and unsustainable as religious ones.

On Medium: Should We Shun a God who Hides from Us?

Read on about the Christian conundrum of the world’s many religions.

On Medium: The Awesome Revelation of Real Evil

Here's an article about Satanic auras and the supervillain’s reality distortion field.