Here's an article of mine, called Science, Nihilism, and the Artistry of Nature , that Scott Bakker put up on his blog. I wrote it s...

In a Nerdist podcast , Neil deGrasse Tyson expresses the vulgar scientistic view of philosophy in something close to its paradigmatic for...

Dateline: WASHINGTON—Politicians rallied on Get Stuff Done Day, to reassure the American people that their government is in working order...

How do animals turn into people? The answer has several facets, including evolutionary and neurological ones, although unenlightened folk...

In this YouTube video, I compare mystical and modern enlightenment and I criticize mostly Eckhart Tolle's kind of spirituality, but also...

Dateline: NEW YORK—Tired of being accused of having stereotypical ideas of women and racial minorities, the gazillionaire Roderick Billin...

Mysticism is commonly thought of as the esoteric practice of religion for the inner circle of initiates who seek enlightenment, which is ...

Dateline: NEW YORK—Islamic states are infamous in the West for forcing women to wear burqas, since those outer garments obscure the shape...

The subprime mortgage crisis of 2008 has both exoteric and esoteric significance. Exoterically, the inflation of the housing bubble a...

Earlier, I posted some fruitful email exchanges I had with readers of this blog, on pessimism and angst and on social justice . Here's ...