On Medium: Improve Yourself by Earning Melancholy

Here's an article about the happiness industry and the countercultural obligation to maximize enlightening alienation, not childish contentment.

On Medium: Turn Your Cynicism Into Wonder

Read on about how to recover the realization that all things are fundamentally strange and sacred, and how cynicism can be converted into wonder.

On Medium: The Mirage of Facts in a Desert of Storytelling

Read on about the question of what’s more fundamental, storytelling or objective knowledge, and whether the possibility of objective truth is the deepest fiction.

On Medium: Tourette Syndrome and the Acquaintance with Absurdity

Read on about the extent to which your personal background might be relevant to the philosophical evaluation of your worldview.

On Medium: Civility has Already Automated Our Jobs and Public Lives

Here's an article about big-city dehumanization, the faux pas of giving “too much information,” and the social scripts that automate our behaviour to cover up our existential condition.

On Medium: The Disgrace of the Happy Adult

Here's an article that critiques the self-improvement and happiness industries, and asks what’s better than joy and contentment in an unjust, absurd world.

On Medium: The Poison Pills of Liberal Institutions

Here's an article about why science, capitalism, democracy, and the liberal arts may not be sustainable since they conflict in some ways with their underlying humanist ethos.

On Medium: The Theology of Artificial Intelligence

Read on about godlike anomalies in nature, the folly of studying God, and the theological status of artificial intelligence.

On Medium: Religions are as Tribal as Baseball Teams

Here's an article about the arbitrariness of identifying with your “home team,” both in sports and religion.

On Medium: Consumerism is as Irrational as Fundamentalist Religion

Here's an article about the need for an existential perspective on all cultures, one that can compare, for instance, the rationality of atheistic and religious cultures.