On Medium: The Frustrating Sloppiness of Continental Philosophy

Here's an article about Slavoj Žižek’s rambling about the “parallax view,” and a better way of dealing with natural dichotomies.

On Medium: Slavoj Žižek: A Clownish Charlatan Who Abuses Philosophy

Read on about European nihilism and the worst of continental philosophical showboating.

On Medium: Hollow Philosophy and the Call for Neoshamans

Read on about scientism, the capitalist race to the bottom, and the question of liberalism’s sustainability.

On Medium: Avoiding Madness with Philosophy

Read on about how to gain perspective on 2025’s authoritarian nightmare, and what philosophy can do in the face of Trumpian absurdity.

On Medium: The Precarious Role of Metaphysics in Nature

Here's a dialogue on what philosophy adds to science, religion, and art, and the role of metaphysics in philosophy, given the rise of the scientific picture of nature’s creativity.

On Medium: The Myth of the Tranquil Sage

Read on for a dialogue on whether philosophy can make you happy, or whether philosophy is countercultural, so it alienates neo-prophets with subversive insights.

On Medium: The Philosopher’s Inner Struggle

Here's an article about why the search for truth is opposed to the desire for happiness, and how the countercultural philosopher struggles with that conflict.

On Medium: The Counterproductive Love of Wisdom

Here's an article about the philosophy's downside, as shown by its history and social context, and whether philosophy's redeemed by some overriding advantage.

On Medium: Can Philosophy Save Humanity?

Here's a dialogue on philosophy’s social potential and whether philosophers must be social outsiders or whether they can contribute directly to social progress.

On Medium: Should the Masses be Taught Philosophy?

Read on for a dialogue on the need for reason’s integration with intuition, and whether philosophers should be elitists or popularizers in dealing with the public.

On Medium: Is Nature Metaphysically Wild?

Here's a dialogue on whether there's an objective, informative sense in which nature is metaphysically wild.

On Medium: The Secular Humanist’s Ontology

Read on about nature’s wildness, the language game of metaphysics, and the search for the secular humanist's broadest categories.

On Medium: Alienated Intellectuals aren’t Fully Alive

Read on about the extravert’s rejoinder to elitist introverts, which is that the introvert occupies a deathly state that isn't fully committed to life's routines.

On Medium: The Divergent Countercultures of Socrates and Jesus

Read on about Jewish satire, Platonic humanism, Christian one-upmanship, and how Christians used the Socratic model as a foil to promote a Jewish prophet.

On Medium: The Philosopher’s Role in Shepherding High Culture through a Dark Age

Here's an article about neoshamanic explorations, intellectual luxuries, the retreat to religion, and whether philosophers would be needed to preserve knowledge in a dark age.

On Medium: Is Life an Absurd Game?

Read on about the question of life’s meaning, and how philosophy reconciles the possible nihilistic implications of science with the naïve sense of our self-worth.

On Medium: Philosophy Doesn’t Progress in the Existential Abyss

Here's an article about why philosophy shouldn’t be dismissed as defective science because philosophers deal with an existential conflict that has no final resolution. 

On Medium: How Artistic Standards Can Lead Philosophers Astray

Here's an article that delves into a case study of how muddled literary philosophy can get, using Alexander Bard’s and Jan Söderqvist’s book Process and Event.

On Medium: How Germany Thrived and Died by its Culture of Excellence

Read on about the genius behind modern Germany's rise and fall, and the danger of cultivating a middle class when the existential truth is bleak.

On Medium: The Abyss That’s Engulfing Western Philosophy

Here's an article that calls for honour in the clash between the scientific (analytic) and literary (Continental) traditions that divide Western approaches to philosophy.