On Medium: The Dire Choice Between Two Evils: Trumpistan and Iran

Read on about the difficulty of how decent people should choose in a war between villainous regimes.

On Medium: H.P. Lovecraft’s Satirical Takedown of Islam

Read on about the relation between Islam and Lovecraft's cosmic horror, and why the unconditional surrender to God is dystopian.

On Medium: The Terrifying Bridge Between Modernity and the Muslim World

Here's an article about cosmic horror and monotheism’s reconciliation with science.

On Medium: The Bible and Quran are Proto-Lovecraftian Satires

Here's an article about the hidden message of monotheistic scriptures, and how Jews are the only monotheists who have understood the prophets’ implicit critique of religion.

On Medium: Modern Self-Deification and the Array of Religions

Here's an article about the ideological resources the world’s religions have for accommodating the modern rise of science and secular humanism.

On Medium: Why do Conservative Muslim Men Hate Women?

Read on about the irony and paradox of being attracted to women and simultaneously needing to loathe them on conservative, religious grounds in the Muslim world.

On Medium: Confronting an Islamist Diatribe Against Modernity

Read on about how despite the flaws of modern progress in America and Israel, the Islamist invitation to return to medieval-style traditions should be unwelcome.

On Medium: Trumpian Israel Meets Arab Medievalism

Here's an article about Israel's Trumpian regime, the Muslim world's medievalism, and how to see past the Western Left’s one-sided assessment of the Israel-Hamas conflict.

On Medium: How Liberal Tolerance for Religious Absurdities Harms Atheists

Read on about the diabolical mismatch between religion and liberalism, between the social test of devoutness and the secular protection of freedom of speech.

On Medium: Do American and Islamic Cultures Cater to Prairies and Deserts?

Here's an article about Sayyid Qutb’s jeremiad against America’s “primitive” values, and whether Islamic culture, too, can be explained as a consequence of geography.

On Medium: Whose Voice is Loudest in the Free World?

Read on about the Western equivalent of the daily Muslim call to prayer, and how we often surrender to the dominant voices to escape our freedom.

On Medium: Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s Muddled Response to the Nietzschean Challenge

Read on about a leading new atheist's pseudo-conversion to Christianity, and the search for a viable Western religion in the conflict between civilizations.

On Medium: Waiting for Godot in the Middle East’s Holy Wars

Here's an article about the clash between Jewish and Islamic idols, and the absurdity of a war between Abrahamic monotheists when the deity likely doesn't even exist.

On Medium: The Clash between Medievalism and Modernity in the Middle East

Read on about the unrealistic options for peace in the Middle East, given the temporal clash of civilizations, and why Israel will never be at peace until the Muslim world is modernized.

On Medium: Israel as the Vanguard in a Clash of Civilizations

Read on about Islamic illiberalism, the West’s surpassing of medievalism, and Israel's hostile environment and vanguard status in a clash of time periods.

On Medium: Is Israel David or Goliath in the Middle East?

Here's an article about the biblical David and Goliath metaphor, and how we grasp for cognitive filters to overcompensate for paradoxical ambiguity in the Middle East.

On Medium: Reckoning with the Muslim World’s Loathing of Israeli Jews

Read on about the key imbalances that explain the Arab-Israeli conflict, namely Muslims' racist hatred of Jews, and Israel's disproportionate power in the region.

On Medium: Why Scriptures Are Still Revered In An Age of Disposable Text

Here's an article about the Bible’s structural advantage of forming its mystique in the ancient world when texts were inherently mysterious, long before our Age of Disposable Text.

On Medium: Why the Muslim World Resents Judaism

Read on about the scapegoating of secular liberal Israel, the wounding of Muslims’ pride, and the deeper reason for the conflict between Israel and Palestinians.

On Medium: Cosmic Horror and the Existential Problem of Islam

Here's an article that reflects on tyranny, progress, modern alienation, and how Islam might be modernized via its similarity to HP Lovecraft's take on cosmic horror.