The Age of Manufactured Awe: Can Wonder Survive in a Synthetic World?
When I first started writing, I thought the job was to sound certain. I thought that if I arranged my sentences neatly enough, if every paragraph landed perfectly and every metaphor shimmered just right then... Read More
Our A.I. Alignment Imperative: Creating a Future Worth Sharing
This article was written with the support of advanced AI tools, including OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google Gemini. It was first published in September 2025 at Academia.edu, LinkedIn.com, and Medium.com. Preface We stand at a... Read More
Living Without Emotional Skin: What It Means to Have Borderline Personality Disorder At 19, I decided to break the silence around my diagnosis. This is my story.
Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) is a psychiatric condition that shapes how people feel, respond to others and build relationships. It isn’t a one-off occurrence like the flu, but a long-term pattern that defines the daily... Read More
The New Eugenics: Biohacking, Fertility Startups, and the Future of Choice From Empowerment to Exclusion
When most people hear the word eugenics, they think of dusty history textbooks and black-and-white photographs: forced sterilizations in the early 20th century, pseudoscientific charts measuring skulls, the language of “fitness” used to justify violence... Read More
Hearts on the Run (or How Parasites Gave Us Love)
We often think of love as a spiritual, emotional or relationship good. Something deeply human, irreducible and perhaps even transcendent. Yet there is a credible evolutionary account that suggests love may not be a cosmic... Read More
Incels: A Humanist Understanding and Approach
When I began college, I struggled with my mental health and adjusting to the new social environment. Feeling the effects of loneliness and my own social shortcomings, I became increasingly bitter. Watching students out of... Read More
How to Be a Good Blasphemer: A Humanist Guide to Courageous Critique
In an age when governments prioritize right-wing religious sensitivities over that of fundamental human rights, blasphemy remains a valuable way to undermine such anti-democratic ideologies–often, while having a bit of fun at the same time.... Read More
