Welcome to The Human Animal, a project dedicated to the promotion of individual excellence and the development of constructive approaches to the most pressing challenges facing humanity today.

Articles explore a range of topics, including:

  • Original insights on exceptional historical figures.

  • Critical evaluations of past and present value systems

  • Secular approaches to understanding human nature and morality.

  • Critiques and expositions of influential philosophical literature and concepts.

  • Examinations of historical phenomena over time.

  • Analyses and interpretations of recent events.

Throughout the articles, readers of The Human Animal will become familiar with its guiding (and ever-evolving) philosophy, which is influenced by figures such as Charles Darwin, Friedrich Nietzsche, Henry David Thoreau, Max Stirner, Noam Chomsky, and Richard Dawkins. It may best be described as an iconoclastic brand of individualism anchored to a secular and naturalistic worldview.

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Articles about humanity's struggle for survival, truth, and meaning in the throes of an inherently hostile, chaotic, and amoral universe.

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Overeducated Navy veteran with an interest in history, philosophy, psychology, and politics.