On Medium: How Would a Real Enlightened Person Live?

Here's an article about the history of withdrawal into wisdom from shamanism to modernity.

On Medium: The Capitalist Theology of Risk-Taking

Here's an article about Scott Galloway’s specious framing of business and romance.

On Medium: Does AI make Philosophy Obsolete?

Read on about philosophy’s role in the age of AI and whether AI undermines modernity's secular humanist ethos.

On Medium: Pity the Hipster Art Critic

Read on for a review of "the internet's busiest music nerd's" review of a Phoebe Bridgers album.

On Medium: Nature’s Monstrousness and the Manosphere

Read on about whether conservative men scapegoat women for being more “natural.”

On Medium: Commercialized Nerddom at Fan Conventions

Here's a personal report on the commercialized nerddom at Fan Expo Canada.

On Medium: New Atheism and the Herd of WALL-E Slobs

Read on about how the New Atheist’s Trojan horse carried scientism and consumerism.

On Medium: Ryan Holiday is a Sophist, not a Stoic

Read on about how the crucial difference between ancient and modern enlightenment explains the ruse of Ryan Holiday's promotion of self-help Stoicism.

On Medium: Which is Worse for Artists, AI or Capitalism?

Read on for a dialogue on AI, capitalism, and the late-modern artistic struggle.

On Medium: Odysseus Got Lost in Christianity

Here's an article about some insights about Christianity gained from a semi-epic struggle in a movie theater.

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: Love is a Refuge from the Degradations of Public Life

Read on about why we prefer romantic intimacy to civility.

On Medium: Can Digital Content Still be Precious?

Read on about the “remixes” of my first album that are out on YouTube.

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: Algos in the Cave

Read on about my first music album, "Algos in the Cave," which is now out on YouTube.

On Medium: Where is Trump’s Impact on the Self-Help Industry?

Read on about whether we should all be striving to be supervillains now.

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: Fake Experts’ Appraisals of Art

Here's an article about phony lists of the best art, and how real experts’ criteria for excellence can’t be gamed.

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: Who Best Represents Humanity, Winners or Losers?

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