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: The Mystery of Ted Lasso’s Optimism

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

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 Misplaced Fear that Atheists are Untrustworthy

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

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: 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: “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: Love is a Refuge from the Degradations of Public Life

Read on about why we prefer romantic intimacy to civility.

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: 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: 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: Atheistic Morality is Grounded in Horror for Nature

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

On Medium: Exploits of the Enlightened Supervillain

Read on about the paradoxes of rational enlightenment and selfish progress.

On Medium: Consumers Are Too Childish to Rule Over Nature

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

On Medium: Is it Better to Die Alone or Surrounded by Loved Ones?

Read on about a clash between movie memes that provide different advice on how to make the best of dying.

On Medium: We’re Sad Clowns Who Cling to Art

Read on about how fiction saves us from confronting nature's inhuman enormities.

On Medium: Who Best Represents Humanity, Winners or Losers?

Here's an article about the clash between the well-adjusted and alienated perspectives on life.

On Medium: Understanding the Horror of Liminal Places

Read on about the “Backrooms” phenomenon and the dread of wasted technology.