On Medium: The Subterfuge of Neoconservatives

Read on about philosophical elitism, esoteric and exoteric writing, Judaism, the Iraq War, and Leo Strauss’s rebranding of nihilistic conservatism.

On Medium: Is Self-Deception the Bedrock of All Knowledge?

Read on about how the inhuman cosmos negates childlike pretenses, exposing our treasured plain facts as a smorgasbord of distractions, vain conceits, and lies of omission.

On Medium: Russell Kirk’s Futile Principles of Conservatism

Here's an article that tests a deflationary take on conservatism against Kirk’s “canons of the conservative mind.”

On Medium: Stoic Pantheism and the Rise of the Alienated Sage

Here's an article that fortifies Stoicism with Existentialism, contrasts Stoic pantheism with an updated, non-anthropocentric kind, and critiques virtue ethics.

On Medium: Joseph de Maistre and Carl Schmitt: Conservatives Who Said the Quiet Part Out Loud

Here's an article about the theological excuses for monarchy and some crass rationales for tyranny.

On Medium: How Would a Saint or a Prophet Reply to Rude Online Comments?

Here's an article that imagines the mythic ideal of handling toxic online comment sections, and how to cope with the dead-end of trying to excel on a degrading platform.

On Medium: Help for the Fake Self-Help Industry

Here's an article that unravels the paradoxes of the self-help industry, and imagines what a sustainable and honourable form of self-improvement would look like.

On Medium: The Red Herring of Michael Oakeshott’s “Conservative Character”

Read on about how Oakeshott confuses instinctive conservatism or inductive reasoning with a distinctive politically conservative disposition, and about how the true conservative character affects politics.

On Medium: Rebuffing Ben Shapiro’s Sales Pitch for God and Liberty

Here's a critique of Ben Shapiro's history of Western philosophy, a history which he uses to motivate his Judaism and libertarianism.

On Medium: Putin’s Hypocrisy and What’s at Stake in the Rule of Law

Here's an article about the Russian-Ukraine crisis, elite cynicism, noble lies, and the essence of secular progress.