Author: Adam Lee

This article originally appeared on AlterNet. In 2014, Charisma magazine, a major media outlet for evangelical and Pentecostal Christians, published an open call to genocide. The article in question, titled “Why I Am Absolutely Islamaphobic” [sic] and written by Gary Cass, begins with the premise that “every true follower of Mohammed” wants to “subjugate and…

The happy ending where civilization collapses and tens of millions of people die.

The American corporate sector is becoming more liberal-friendly territory than ever, and it has the potential to split the conservative coalition that’s prevailed in our politics for decades. That’s the topic of my new piece on the Guardian, Businesses are powerful allies on LGBT rights. The left should embrace them. This column expands on my…

What opportunity does earthly life offer besides the opportunity to damn ourselves?

Why would an Objectivist risk his own life to save someone else’s?

The true story of the reporters who exposed the Catholic church’s priestly pedophilia to the world.

In the riot of awful laws coming out of Republican-controlled statehouses, Mississippi’s HB1523 may or may not be the worst. It has a lot of competition for that title. But I’d argue that out of all these bills, it’s the one that gives the clearest insight into the motives of its supporters. The law’s obligatory…

Nailed it: This week was a huge achievement for Elon Musk’s SpaceX, which delivered another payload to orbit – an inflatable habitat module for the International Space Station – and then successfully landed its Falcon 9 reusable rocket on an unmanned drone ship platform waiting for it out at sea. The company has already achieved…

Atlas Shrugged, part III, chapter X Even as John Galt is outwitting his torturers at the State Science Institute, outside, the capitalists’ non-altruistic rescue mission is underway: Dagny walked straight toward the guard who stood at the door of “Project F.” Her steps sounded purposeful, even and open, ringing in the silence of the path…

North Carolina’s appalling HB2, which I wrote about on Monday, is just one bill in a parade of awfulness from state legislatures. In the last few weeks alone, Indiana has outlawed abortion if the fetus has a defect or disability, and Utah requires women getting abortion to receive unnecessary anesthesia against their will. A South…