Chudi Okoye

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The Eighteenth Brumaire of Donald Trump (Pt. 2)

Chudi Okoye - March 27, 2025

This two-part essay explores the potential course of President Donald Trump’s second term. Based on Trump’s antecedents and moves he has made two months into his current tenure, the essay anticipates an increasingly illiberal, Bonapartist shift that...

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The Eighteenth Brumaire of Donald Trump (Pt. 1)

Chudi Okoye - March 24, 2025

Two months into his second term, President Donald Trump has unleashed a frenetic wave of policies, rapidly remaking America in his image. This essay argues that he seeks a fundamental, illiberal shift towards personalized power, echoing Bonapartist...

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Have the NASA Voyager Probes Got Close to or Flown Past Heaven?

Chudi Okoye - March 15, 2025

(I originally wrote and circulated this piece on social media in August 2023. It has been refreshed in light of recent NASA mission updates.) By Chudi Okoye I have been scratching...

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Trapped Between the Carpetbaggers and Imperial Conquistadors

Chudi Okoye - March 3, 2025

As Ukraine fights for survival in the face of Russian aggression, its leader, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, must navigate not just the perils of war but also the treacheries of geopolitics—where some allies seem as unreliable as adversaries are...

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A Toast to IBB at Book Launch

Chudi Okoye - February 21, 2025

A Toast to IBB at Book LaunchBy Chudi Okoye (Second draft: Feb 21, 2025)What an event they made of it!Grand, gilded, and glitteringA blistering reminder of their mighty gainsAnd glistering provenance of our biting pains.

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The Risen and the Chosen

Chudi Okoye - January 13, 2025

The Risen and the ChosenBy Chudi Okoye(First draft: Jan 13, 2025)The tone of the Tanakh tells it allAs do the texts of its varied scrollsThat many had in fact been createdBut the Jews were the truly...

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In the Historic Contest of Early Christianities, Did Gnosticism Lose Unjustly?

Chudi Okoye - January 12, 2025

To grow and consolidate, the early Christian Church vehemently suppressed any deviations from proto-orthodox theology, with Gnosticism a prime target. Despite centuries of imposed obscurity, however, Gnostic thought still resonates and, if nurtured, may yet find fertile...

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African Spirituality and the Peculiar Promise of Quantum Entanglement

Chudi Okoye - December 15, 2024

The final installment in a trilogy on existence, God, and religion, this essay examines the prospects for reviving African spirituality—long overshadowed on the continent by Christianity and Islam—through the embrace of quantum entanglement. By Chudi Okoye It is a truly exquisite...

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A Journey to Agnostic Theism: Seeking God Amid Confusing Evidence

Chudi Okoye - December 4, 2024

God isn’t a phantom, nor can He be fully fathomed. By Chudi Okoye If you ask Richard Swinburne, the British philosopher who has devoted his career to pondering the divine, he would say—with scarcely a pause—that it is far more probable...

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A Persistent Question for Humans: Why is There ‘Something’ Rather Than ‘Nothing’?

Chudi Okoye - November 30, 2024

A philosophical meditation on existence. By Chudi Okoye The question of why our universe (and possibly other universes) came into existence, specifically why there is something rather than nothing, has preoccupied theologians, philosophers, scientists, and even lay people like me for...

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