On Medium: Should We Psychoanalyze the Mystics of the Axial Age?

Here's an article that assesses Bard’s and Söderqvist’s Lacanian screed in “Process and Event,” about whether Gnostic mystics were caught in an unmanly stage of personal development.

On Medium: The Laws of War are Feats of Orwellian Gaslighting

Read on about POWs, PTSD, legalistic gaslighting, and the clash between the international acceptance of war, and the domestic outlawing of murder.

On Medium: Jesus Died for God’s Sins

Read on about Carl Jung’s intriguing psychoanalysis of Yahweh, and how the biblical narrative implies that Yahweh was ashamed by his response to Job.

On Medium: God or Monstrous Nature? The Mother of All Dichotomies

Read on about the existential choice between believing that life or nature's monstrousness is metaphysically primary, and the relative triviality of most preoccupations.

On Medium: The Irony of Jewish Fundamentalism in Modern Israel

Here's an article about Jewish fundamentalism, the fragility of liberalism, and the liberal’s burden of distinguishing Israel from its Islamist neighbours.

On Medium: Are Atheists Impudent for Flouting Civilized Traditions?

Here's an article about the unnaturalness of civilizational progress, and the sanctimonious prejudices behind Edmund Burke’s case against atheism.

On Medium: Legal Fictions and Israel’s Status at the United Nations

Here's an article about the strangeness of regulating war with laws, the function of the United Nations, and the UN’s call for a truce in Israel’s war with Hamas.

On Medium: The Farce of Vox Day’s Alt-Right Case Against Atheism

Here's an article that examines a Christian nationalist's case against the supposed irrationality of atheists, and that addresses whether there's a secular basis for liberal morality.

On Medium: How Germany Thrived and Died by its Culture of Excellence

Read on about the genius behind modern Germany's rise and fall, and the danger of cultivating a middle class when the existential truth is bleak.

On Medium: John Lennox’s Devious Reasons for being a Christian

Read on about the apologist John Lennox's so-called scientific testing of Christianity, the difficulty of relating to God through Jesus, and whether this religion is true because it “works.”