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

Read on about why we prefer romantic intimacy to civility.

On Medium: Love is Nature’s Compensation for Cosmic Horror

Read on about how nature prefers farce to tragedy in life’s evolution, so pleasures evolve to balance the inevitable suffering from nature's absurdity.

On Medium: Does Metaphysics Show that God is Love?

Here's an article about the numerous problems with a Neoplatonic defense of the maudlin monotheistic sentiment that God is simply love.

On Medium: A Loving God Would be Like a Pedophile

Here's an article that corrects the Evangelical Christian's love-bombing cliché that God loves us personally, with a dash of cosmic perspective that returns us to reality.

On Medium: Did Divine Love Create Black Holes and Quantum Weirdness?

Read on for whether God is love and whether that sentiment follows from our ability to think in metaphors and to have psychedelic and mystical experiences. 

On Medium: Feeble Defenses of the Platitude that God is Love

Here's an article that considers some reasons to identify God with love, stemming from the concepts of evolution, Jesus, mysticism, and near-death experiences.

On Medium: Why Many Intellectuals Despise Romantic Love

Read on about two pitfalls in life: romantic love as a vestige of animality, and intellectualism as a gateway to transhuman alienation.

On Medium: Tribalism and the Open Question of Love’s Moral Impact

Here's an article that contrasts the animality of family bonds with the unnaturalness of the moral perspective, to question whether romantic love has an overall moral impact.

On Medium: Is Romantic Love Immoral?

Read on about love’s biological function, the difference between eros and agape, and whether romantic love facilitates or hinders the moral enterprise.

On Medium: Intimacy in “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind”

Here's an article about "Eternal Sunshine's" bittersweetness, how the movie's medium reflects its message, and the primacy of selfish love.

On Medium: The Dark Secret of Spirituality

This article is about going beyond the platitudes of spirituality, especially the one about the need for unconditional love. What would really be involved in spiritual love? Should spiritually enlightened people be expected to love everything?

On Medium: Does the Existence of Love Refute Cynicism?

This article is about some surprising social implications of intimacy, such as that we treasure love because we have contempt for the dishonesty that's rife in public life, and we keep our love a secret because our true self is despicable, so we assume that we don't deserve love or that love must be a miracle.