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The shrugging seculars
Gen Z is the most secular generation, but they wear it lightly. Is that shrugging attitude about to change?
Lessons for a future atheist president from Jimmy Carter’s funeral
A secular civilization, like any civilization, will need a story about a beneficent universe and a hopeful future.
Is oligarchy the human condition?
Let's stop pretending that this is a departure from the norm.
The unforgiven generations
We will be remembered for nothing else.
Weather whiplash: How the future will have to design for resilience
Climate change isn't headed for an extreme. It's headed for every extreme.
Hyperreal: The next-level escape from the human condition
Our species-long efforts to escape reality are headed to an unreal place.
Wars of extreme convenience
The easier war gets, the more wars we'll see.
The never-ending appeal of the magic man
Complex problems call for complex solutions. Oh well.
The Shrinkening
For all the energy I put in, my input at the national level has come to nothing. What if I start thinking locally?
Machines and meaning: AI's role in a humanist future
AI raises important questions about what it means to be human. It's time to have that conversation.
When the future forgets the past
Knowledge disappears easily.
Letting go of my last big myth
Burying the myth of god was easy compared to freeing myself from the myth of progress.