Author: Adam Lee

Atlas Shrugged, part III, chapter VIII In the aftermath of John Galt’s speech, the last few businesses left in the country are grinding to a halt. Stores and homes are found empty, abandoned by their owners and gutted of everything useful. The plant of Rearden Steel, whose operations had been suspended after no one could…

I’ve gotten lazy about these anniversaries over the years, but this one is too big to ignore. My first-ever post was February 10, 2006, which means this humble little blog is ten years old today! In the time I’ve been writing, the atheist movement has made amazingly rapid progress. The non-religious have grown by leaps…

My latest column is up on AlterNet, 4 Things the Atheist Movement Has Done Badly (and How to Do Them Better). As you might guess, it’s about some of the chronic blind spots of the atheist movement, together with my thoughts on how we can improve. Read the excerpt below, then click through to see…

Atlas Shrugged, part III, chapter VIII John Galt’s massive, multi-hour speech finally comes to an end. As I mentioned earlier, because Randian protagonists have the superpower of being able to deliver gigantic monologues without interruption, everyone in the TV station is still standing in the exact same places: “It wasn’t real, was it?” said Mr.…

I posted the other day on Facebook about Richard Dawkins being disinvited from NECSS for promoting a grossly sexist video, which provoked an onlooker to comment that he agreed with Dawkins and not with me. (It was a white man, if you wanted to know.) Since I curate my Facebook wall and don’t care to…

The 2016 presidential primaries are approaching, and I find I’m still undecided. I think both Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton are fine candidates, and either would make an excellent president. This is especially true in comparison to the howling pandemonium that’s the GOP field, where all the other candidates are competing to be as vulgar,…

Quick note for today: I’ve decided to revive the Daylight Atheism site page on Facebook and give it another try. I tried it out a few years ago, but I found the moderation controls were badly designed and it was too hard to keep out spam and other nonsense. I’m going to see if they’ve…

Atlas Shrugged, part III, chapter VII, The Speech John Galt is still talking. In this section of the speech, which is the last part that I’ll cover, he addresses an important question: what happens to the people who listen to him and come away convinced? After all, you’ve got to admit, he waited till pretty…

As I’ve said before, I don’t make it my mission to chronicle every obnoxious thing that Richard Dawkins says. But this week he hit a low point, even for him, with something so outrageous I couldn’t let it go by. More importantly, the response gave me a new and unfamiliar feeling: a glimmer of hope…

In my Atlas Shrugged series, I’ve previously written about the libertarians who tried to create their own Galt’s Gulch in Chile, a plan which ended predictably in lawsuits, acrimony and accusations of fraud when real human beings turned out not to be as incorruptible as Ayn Rand characters. Now, as PZ informs us, there are…