PinnedBenjamin CainA Trove of My Philosophical WritingsAn updated, categorized list of links to all my Medium articles·1 min read·Oct 8, 2021--9--9
Benjamin CaininGrim TidingsWhen Misanthropes Claim the Moral High GroundThe perversity and incoherence of preachy antinatalism·8 min read·3 days ago--7--7
Benjamin CaininGrim TidingsTrumpian Israel Meets Arab MedievalismSeeing past the Western Left’s one-sided assessment of the Israel-Hamas conflict·12 min read·4 days ago--22--22
Benjamin CaininDeconstructing ChristianityDecrying the Prosperity Gospel of Americanized ChristianityIt’s just one more mainstream debasement of Jesus’s subversive ethos·9 min read·5 days ago--3--3
Benjamin CaininGrim TidingsThe Prospect of Tragic Heroism in the Cosmic SchemeLovecraftian horror and the vindication of humanist pride·9 min read·6 days ago--10--10
Benjamin CaininGrim TidingsWhen Leftist Political Correctness is Just Obnoxious HypocrisyMoralistic showboating and the real causes of social progress·6 min read·May 2, 2024--19--19
Benjamin CaininGrim TidingsHuman Pride Isn’t Just Arbitrary ArroganceThe glory and strangeness of recognizing life’s basic condition·7 min read·May 1, 2024--7--7
Benjamin CaininDeconstructing ChristianityChristians Grossly Distort Our Relationship to NatureComparing the tragic heroism of Gilgamesh to the Pauline narrative of Eden and original sin·9 min read·Apr 29, 2024--8--8
Benjamin CaininGrim TidingsPhilosophy Doesn’t Progress in the Existential AbyssWhy philosophy shouldn’t be dismissed as defective science·8 min read·Apr 29, 2024--20--20
Benjamin CaininGrim TidingsThe “Woke” are Sleepwalking in a Fog of Western DecadenceHow to see past the tribal output of a vacuous culture war·9 min read·Apr 25, 2024--35--35