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.