Reading Time: 5 minutes Americans are the unhappiest we’ve ever been. Is it a surrender to despair or a foretaste of change brewing?
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On the Edge of Climate Catastrophe
Reading Time: 4 minutes This was the greatest test humanity has ever faced, and it looks more and more like we’re going to fail it.
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Eleanor’s Paralysis Analysis Playhouse
Reading Time: < 1 minute Eleanor the depressed narwhal stews in the shallows of her coastal habitat, quietly rationalizing her own indecisiveness through her unparalleled fatalism.
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What’s the Real Reason We Love Action Movies?
Reading Time: < 1 minute Blinky and Sal enjoy some traditional, hyper-violent American action fare and ponder the psychological need to watch such things.
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The Last Jedi and the Problem of Nihilism
Reading Time: 4 minutes Is moral progress an illusion, or is it simply a realistic lesson that we can never take evil’s defeat for granted?
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Ta-Nehisi Coates and Atheistic Pessimism
Reading Time: 4 minutes Atheism doesn’t strip us of hope, but it does strip us of false hope.
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A Fireside Dialogue
Reading Time: 8 minutes 1. A Portent Late on a wild and blustery autumn night, I was sitting in my study, sprawled out in a comfortable armchair, staring off into the middle distance. The fireplace held a swirl of ashes and dying embers, glowing faintly. In their uncertain light, my shadow stretched out before me, long and distorted, and […]
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The Ashes: A Humanist Sermon
Reading Time: 3 minutes Despite the failure of our hopes, the mission to do good must continue.
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The America I Thought I Knew
Reading Time: 4 minutes A crushing end to the signs of moral progress in recent American history.