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

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

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

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

Here's an article about the re-enchantment of our digital environments and the inversion of Gnostic longing.

Read on about the sophistry that counts for wisdom in the shallow, neoliberal, self-help marketplace.

Read on about how Buddhism is supposed to be so much more insightful and relevant than Christian warnings, yet you don't hear many Budd...

Read on about how the self-help industry fools us into thinking we’re still serious about personal growth.

Here's an article about why listicles are popular, and some of us nevertheless resent them.

Read on about how self-help consumerism is for some and visionary art is for others.

Here's an article that critiques the self-improvement and happiness industries, and asks what’s better than joy and contentment in an u...

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

Here's an article about the culture clash between fraudulent individualism and pragmatic humanism, a clash that explains the difference...

Read on about the dubious metaphor behind progressive and conservative dismissals of people, and why humanists should reject cancel culture...

Read on about Instagrammers' confusion about role in nature, and whether we should help troubled wild animals or leave them to their fa...

Read on about transhuman glory, the existential purpose of all cultures, and why even secular cultures aren't grounded in reason.

Read on about why you shouldn’t publish if you can’t write well without computers, AI, and the internet, because publishing should be for m...

Read on about how liberal progress produces a class of infantile adults that lacks a collective mother figure, resulting in an acute late-m...

Here's an article about the corporate prioritizing of output over process, and the implications of consumers' devaluing of the arti...

Read on about how busy consumers must choose between infantilizing infotainment and honourable philosophical and artistic content.