Wednesday, January 29, 2025

On Medium: Scrutinizing the Secular Humanistic Meaning of Life

Read on for a dialogue on how humanists approach the question of whether life has a purpose, and how theists challenge the secular lifestyle.

On Medium: Free Will is Possible Because Wild Nature Tries Everything

Read on about the emergence of minds, civilizations, and liberated social classes, and the levels of human freedom that nature's wildness makes possible.

Tuesday, January 28, 2025

On Medium: “Wokeness” and the Corruption of Liberalism

Read on for a dialogue on whether liberalism has gone awry or late-modern social justice advocates are only being unfairly and counterproductively maligned.

Monday, January 27, 2025

On Medium: Scrutinizing the Religious Meaning of Life

Read on for a dialogue on how theistic religions approach the question of what we should be doing in life, and whether religions can support the contention that human life has a purpose.

On Medium: Trump’s Belittling of Canada and Obsolete Liberals

Here's an article about the trolling and bullying of what the US was supposed to be, as President Trump shows in bullying Canada that he doesn't understand what friends are.

Wednesday, January 22, 2025

On Medium: When Philosophers and Scientists Squabble about the Meaning Crisis

Read on about how John Vervaeke minimizes the philosophical reasons for alienation, in taking the meaning crisis to be a problem mainly for psychologists and therapists.

Tuesday, January 21, 2025

On Medium: Modernity Secularizes the Axial Age’s Moral Absolutes

Here's an article about the varieties of progress from apocalyptic judgments to technoscientific advances, and how the modern world secularizes ancient revolutions.

Monday, January 20, 2025

On Medium: The Internet’s Role in Fostering Postmodern Nihilism

Read on for a dialogue on the internet's role in our descent into the postmodern condition, and potential remedies for late-modern angst and cynicism. 

Thursday, January 16, 2025

On Medium: God’s Pearls Cast Before Human Swine

Here's an article about how the notion of divine revelation makes no sense since God would just be casting the pearls of his wisdom before human "swine."

Wednesday, January 15, 2025

On Medium: Can Humanism Solve the ‘Meaning Crisis?’

Read on for a dialogue about whether secular humanism has the resources to address the existential meaning crisis of modernity.