On Medium: The Precarious Role of Metaphysics in Nature

Here's a dialogue on what philosophy adds to science, religion, and art, and the role of metaphysics in philosophy, given the rise of the scientific picture of nature’s creativity.

On Medium: The Acute Meaning Crisis for Spoiled Consumers

Read on about how liberal progress produces a class of infantile adults that lacks a collective mother figure, resulting in an acute late-modern meaning crisis.

On Medium: The Reign of Civilized Psychopaths

Read on about why Democrats seem so feeble next to President Trump, and how subcriminal psychopathy might be a political superpower that undermines the liberal's faith in humanity.

On Medium: The Best Religious Response to Atheism is Two Words Long

Read on about why we must reckon with the existential basis of all cultures, and realize that neither religious nor secular worldviews are fully justified by reason.

On Medium: Religion as Faulty Technology or Disposable Art

Here's an article about the spectrum of artifacts in late-modern societies of abundance, and whether religious beliefs and rituals should be viewed more as tools or artworks.

On Medium: AI Slop and the Artist’s Struggle

Here's an article about the corporate prioritizing of output over process, and the implications of consumers' devaluing of the artistic process.

On Medium: Spot the Difference Between Honest and Dishonest Writing

Read on about how some nonfiction writers aren't trying to be truthtellers, and how to spot the difference between the two.

On Medium: Femininity and the Humanist Restoration of Goddess Culture

Here's an article about the search for women’s authentic self-expression, a search that would bypass the patriarchal conceptions of womanliness.

On Medium: The Clash Between Metamodernism and Existentialism

Here's a dialogue on John Vervaeke’s scientific reconstruction of spirituality, and the existential insight that people, unlike impersonal animals, inevitably experience alienation.

On Medium: The Engines of Cosmic Wildness

Read on about how quantum mechanics and natural selection are some drivers of nature’s headless body, giving substance to the claim that nature is wild.