March 16, 2026
This is not a good time for the republic, and pretending otherwise would be embarrassing. The political atmosphere is toxic, institutions are under strain, and the […]
March 10, 2026
There is a strong case to be made that our understanding of religion has become so diluted, sentimentalized, and intellectually malnourished that it now serves as […]
January 19, 2026
If you haven’t seen Citizen Kane (1941), here’s the elevator pitch: America’s loudest self-made titan dies in a palace of stuff, and the world scrambles to […]
December 22, 2025
Let’s be honest: if Alan Watts were alive today, he’d probably be hosting a wildly popular YouTube channel called something like “The Tao of Tuesdays” while […]
November 12, 2025
Let’s be honest: if a ship landed tomorrow and a group of very polite, very obviously non-human visitors stepped out, a lot of religious people would […]
October 24, 2025
After decades of teaching critical thinking, I’ve come to a grim conclusion: the greatest threat to civilization isn’t malice, ideology, or even technology—it’s stupidity. Not the […]
October 13, 2025
A friend and former colleague recently said to me, “Yeah, that all sounds nice, but I still have to pay my bills—probably in a job I […]
October 5, 2025
If the universe is pure consciousness—as many mystics, physicists, and philosophers now suggest—then what does that mean for the idea of a “higher power”? If we […]
September 19, 2025
“Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.”— James Baldwin In uncertain times, we are tempted to […]