On Medium: Do the Enlightened Few have Moral Obligations?

Here's a dialogue on whether wisdom entails the renunciation of vulgar norms, and specifically whether traditional or modern sages should indulge in sex.

On Medium: The Ironic Nostalgia for Childhood Naivety

Read on about the irony of nostalgia for the joys and freedoms of childhood since most adults are more childish than they presume.

On Medium: Confronting an Islamist Diatribe Against Modernity

Read on about how despite the flaws of modern progress in America and Israel, the Islamist invitation to return to medieval-style traditions should be unwelcome.

On Medium: Is America being Punished with a Dark Age for Abandoning its "Christian" Roots?

Here's an article that sorts through a Christian nationalist’s doubletalk, showing how modern conservatives rationalize their Trumpism with gross distortions of history and theology.

On Medium: Jordan Peterson Thinks Atheism is Groundless

Read on to sort through some of Jordan Peterson's conservative confusions and sophistries about religion to see why atheism is far from currently groundless.

On Medium: Who’s More Enlightened, Meditating Monks or Progressive Industrialists?

Here’s a dialogue I had over email about religious and secular humanistic conceptions of enlightenment.

On Medium: Left-Wing Decadence and the Return of Matriarchal Culture

Read on about corporate and technological infantilization of consumers, and why that process might be complemented by a surge of matriarchal, feminine values.

On Medium: The Charade of the “Pro-Life” Stance on Abortion

Here's an article about the conservative's sophistries about the abortion of fetuses, and why we humour the conservative’s toothless threats against modernity.

On Medium: Larry David: A Scapegoated Jewish Antihero

Read on about the hidden meanings of Judaism and of "Curb Your Enthusiasm," and the fate of the indignant satirist who thwarts a Kafkaesque bureaucracy.

On Medium: Is Moral Cooperation Rooted in Nature’s Productivity?

Read on about the progressive revolt against natural norms, and whether game theory shows that morality only repurposes the productivity built into nature's mathematical order.