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: 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: Why Liberal Men and Women Resent Each Other

Read on about the battle between the sexes, and how feminism is humanism that entails transhumanism.

On Medium: The Merry Consumer’s Resentment Towards Intellectuals

Here's an article about the self-help industry’s sophistical slander against high intelligence.

On Medium: Why does the Mainstream Media Normalize Trump’s “Presidency”?

Read on about radicalism, excuses for political absurdities, and the mainstream media's need to gaslight and keep decorum.

On Medium: The Hysteria of Cosmic Horror in our Terrestrial Romper Room

Here's an article about the risks of existential philosophy and the benefits of ordinary life.

On Medium: We’ve Outgrown Spiritual Pursuits

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

On Medium: Friendship is Social Engineering for the Self-Help Crowd

Read on for a critique of the self-help industry and specifically Dale Carnegie’s foundational advice on how to increase profits by being friendly at work.

On Medium: Civility has Already Automated Our Jobs and Public Lives

Here's an article about big-city dehumanization, the faux pas of giving “too much information,” and the social scripts that automate our behaviour to cover up our existential condition.

On Medium: The Disgrace of the Happy Adult

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

On Medium: America’s Second, Lopsided Civil War

Read on about why Democratic resistance to Trump's second presidency looks like Bambi standing up to Godzilla.

On Medium: Social Conformity and Psychiatry’s Authority as a Science

Read on for a dialogue on the basis of psychiatric evaluations of mental disorders, and the clash between psychiatrists' scientific status and their deference to social conventions.

On Medium: Why Does Medium Still Allow Hit and Runs?

Read on about cancel culture, the abuse of “blocking” writers on social media, and the secular humanist ethos of critical thinking that should guide us.

On Medium: Why Humanists Should Denounce Cancel Culture

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

On Medium: Alex O’Connor’s Agnosticism and Access Journalism

Here's an article about softball interviews, truth-telling, and Alex O'Connor's centrist, access journalism, which increases his audience but muddies the waters. 

On Medium: America’s Reasonable Dread of Progress

Read on about how Democratic urbanites and Republican ruralists opt for different escapes from nature’s grim reality.

On Medium: Escaping Cosmic Dismay with Feel-Good Platitudes

Read on about a fallacy of gaslighting optimism that's based on dire premises, a sentimental fallacy found in what passes for philosophy on Instagram.

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: “Wokeness” and the Corruption of Liberalism

Read on for a dialogue on whether liberalism has gone awry or late-modern social justice advocates are only being unfairly and counterproductively maligned.