Featured Essays

Featured

The more we have sought to bring nature’s processes under our control, the more we live within a lack of control.

Cultivating Purpose and Discernment in a Computational World

Reflections on how ill-prepared our traditional moralities are for the world in which we live. The speed and spread of computational power is forcing a revaluation of values that we are not equipped to handle.

New Gods for a New Time

The Enlightenment pushed God and gods to the sidelines, but as our time continues to evolve, are we letting them back in?

Greg Laugero 1/12/26 Greg Laugero 1/12/26

Practice: Ressentiment Check

Ressentiment is not a psychological weakness or a moral flaw. It is a signal that judgment has outrun discernment. This practice offers a way to notice when critique hardens into condemnation, suspend withdrawal that feels like moral clarity, and reopen ethical engagement in a world moving faster than inherited values can keep pace.

Greg Laugero 12/7/25 Greg Laugero 12/7/25

Juvenescence - Robert Pogue Harrison

An essay on the experience of heterochronic time in our turbulent age. Harrison offers his characteristically unique take on heterchronic time and humanity’s ability to remain youthful while we age.

Greg Laugero 10/16/25 Greg Laugero 10/16/25

New Gods for a New Time

The Enlightenment pushed God and gods to the sidelines, but as our time continues to evolve, are we letting them back in?

Greg Laugero 7/15/25 Greg Laugero 7/15/25

Bataille, Religion, Experience

What is to become of religion in our time? In this essay, I descend into Bataille’s speculations on the contingent birth of consciousness out of the ‘water in water’ of pure experience.

Greg Laugero 7/5/25 Greg Laugero 7/5/25

Ressentiment Unbound

Nietzsche treated ressentiment as a consolation for a desire for vengeance that is too weak to act. But what happens when it finds itself in power? In this essay, I explore the consequences of empowered ressentiment on the woke left.

Greg Laugero 6/24/25 Greg Laugero 6/24/25

His Name is John

A reading of Luke’s account of the naming of John the Baptist.

Greg Laugero 6/5/25 Greg Laugero 6/5/25

Reading the Iliad: Mênis and the Moral Compass

Descending into Achilles passive mēnis in the Iliad leads to a better understanding of the birth of our democratic moral compass.

Greg Laugero 2/11/25 Greg Laugero 2/11/25

Reading the Iliad: Wisdom and Violence

The first of an ongoing re-engagement with the Iliad. Here we have an untimely meditation that holds up the mirror of violence to a culture desparately in need of alternatives to vendettas.

Greg Laugero 1/8/25 Greg Laugero 1/8/25

Reading Zarathustra: The Three Metamorphoses

The three metamorphoses Zarathustra describes in his first speech after the prologue moves us beyond any knee-jerk philosophical and religious musings of ‘being and becoming’. The vision presented here is far more sophisticated.

Greg Laugero 12/14/24 Greg Laugero 12/14/24

Reading Zarathustra: The Speeches of Zarathustra

The second installment of my series of Reading Zarathustra. This focuses on the problem of teaching, discipleship, truth telling, and companionship in ‘The Speeches of Zarathustra’ from Book I.