On Medium: Why Babies are Right to be Atheists

Here's an article that clarifies the epistemic status of religious and nonreligious belief, and exposes the apologist William Lane Craig’s confusions about atheism and agnosticism.

On Medium: Who Punishes God for Experimenting with Sentient life?

Read on about the problem of evil, whether life is an experiment God set up to test our religious faith, and the stories we tell ourselves to make sense of suffering.

On Medium: Reckoning with the Muslim World’s Loathing of Israeli Jews

Read on about the key imbalances that explain the Arab-Israeli conflict, namely Muslims' racist hatred of Jews, and Israel's disproportionate power in the region.

On Medium: You’re either Free and Alienated or Enslaved to Physics or Society

Here's an article about why alienation isn't a disorder since all living things are withdrawn from nature, but some people know why that freedom is a blessing and a curse.

On Medium: Can We Submit to Nature’s Carbon’s Cycle?

Read on about the carbon cycle, the incoherence of scientists' pitch for environmentalism, and how progress begins with revulsion for the inhumanity of wild places.

On Medium: How Superstars and Losers both Know Life’s Strangeness

Read on about the surreality of being a celebrity, and how superstars and the downtrodden share an appreciation for life's existential strangeness. 

On Medium: Trump's Superpower and the Tragedy of the Pied Piper

Read on about the GOP's folie à deux with Donald Trump, and how Democrats have no opposing spell to cast to compete with Trump's superpower of telling shameless lies.

On Medium: Is Atheism Just an Excuse to Sin?

Here's an article that exposes some obnoxious, outdated tactics of Christian apologists, such as the demonizing of atheists and the conceit that God's existence is self-evident.

On Medium: Must Civilization be Saved by Neoshamans?

Read on about the conflict between civilization and ethical and aesthetic renewal, and where social progress and distractions meet the lingering existential predicament.

On Medium: Artists versus the Algorithm: Is the Internet Good for Art?

Here's an article about the creator economy, the existential function of art, the internet's impact on writing, and the ironic downside of getting too much of what we want.