Vanity and Improvement: An Ethical Evaluation of the Gym-Selfie
Pride may be a sin, but its true nature isn't how we're used to thinking about it: She says 'I've come of age as a writer in a time when…
Philosophy v. Theology
I was attending a New Year's dinner with some old friends a few years ago, when the subject of philosophy came up. My friend had a master's degree in computer…
Why Christianity?
Today's right wing is rehashing an age-old debate, and one that I myself have grappled with for nearly a decade in some form or another: what faith should the West…
In Defense of Hatred
The concept that began as a short video just over 14 months ago (a gut-response to the terror attacks in Paris), is finally published and up for sale. You can purchase…
Fascism and Antifascism
Friday the 20th marked the second time in about a year in which I nearly went to a political event, and got diverted by some personal obligation... only to find…
Individualism and Collectivism
In ordinary political parlance, the political divide is normally framed in terms of "right" and "left." There is a solid foundation for why these labels are helpful, but the terms…
Resolutions
And in the naked light I saw Ten thousand people maybe more People talking without speaking People hearing without listening People writing songs that voices never shared No one…
On Data and Science
The irrepressible Justicar recently exposed a fraudulent study published in the Journal of American Medical Associates linking Australia's 1996 gun-restriction legislation to decreases in mass shootings, in which "mass shootings"…
Geeks Bearing Gifts: An Argument Against Transhumanism
A friend and I were watching a TED talk on the subject of aging. The speaker was Aubrey de Grey, a British biologist who proposed a simple but fascinating new…
On Wolves, Sheep, and Sheepdogs
Fool, prate not to me about covenants! There can be no covenants between men and lions, wolves and lambs can never be of one mind, but hate each other through…