Read on about liberalism, authoritarian collectivism, the late-modern sidelining of religion, and the clash between American and Chinese versions of secularism.
Read on about how Democratic urbanites and Republican ruralists opt for different escapes from nature’s grim reality.
Here's an article about why the search for truth is opposed to the desire for happiness, and how the countercultural philosopher struggles with that conflict.
Read on about the clash between mysticism and pragmatism in the Lotus Sutra, and Buddhism's double truth doctrine for the enlightened and the unenlightened.
Here's an article about New Atheism's accomplishments, and the underlying conflict between fading American liberalism and China’s totalitarian atheism.
Read on for a dialogue on whether we're individual minds, or there's a single mind underlying our personal identities, and the pantheistic implications of computational thought experiments.
Here's an article about the philosophy's downside, as shown by its history and social context, and whether philosophy's redeemed by some overriding advantage.
Here's an article about the antisociality of social media, the flight to authoritarian regimes, and what the state of the internet tells us about liberalism's decline.
Here's a dialogue on the philosophical implications of a quantum mechanical view of nature, and the prospects of happiness for quantum resonances.
Read on about a fallacy of gaslighting optimism that's based on dire premises, a sentimental fallacy found in what passes for philosophy on Instagram.
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