This article is about science's promethean ethos and the question of what the world must be like, ontologically speaking, to make atheism coherent.
This article looks at the phenomenon of American trolling as a cover for home-grown barbarism.
Read on for an exploration of the secret meaning of history, based on a comparison between the collective development of our species and the stages of our growth as individuals.
This article is about how actors fill the governmental power vacuum in the emerging American plutocracy, increasingly playing the roles of "heel" or "face," familiar from professional wrestling. The problem, then, is that the Democrats are neglecting to supply the "face" or hero to counter the Republican villains, for the sake of boosting the resonance of American political theater.
Check out why there's no such thing as conservative philosophy or "conservative thought," with these top four criticisms of conservatism.
Read on to learn what's at the heart of the Trump technique and of our revulsion towards him. We confront here a supervillain with the powers to overwhelm us with superhuman malignancy and to threaten us with the revelation of evil, that goodness may all along have been for suckers.
This article assesses and explores this influential Russian philosopher's postmodern, traditionalist criticism of liberalism. Is his critique just cynical and incoherent or should we be searching for an alternative to liberalism?
Read on for the psychedelic basis of religious beliefs and practices and for why organized religions have suppressed the source of spiritual and moral revelations.
Following the Trump-Biden train wreck of a debate, in this article I explore the difference between a debate and an interview, using the Pence-Harris "debate" as a case study, and I contrast American political debates with real ones.
This article is about the fallacy of Say's law, and the conflict between what we might call Jewish prudence (from Ecclesiastes), which is presupposed by the "rationality" of free-market economics, and French extravagance which Bataille argues is entailed by our wildness as natural creatures.
