Author: Adam Lee

Atlas Shrugged, part III, chapter I At the bottom of the valley, John Galt and Dagny drive into town, where she meets another old capitalist friend: Galt stopped the car in front of the first structure on a ledge above the roofs, a brick building with a faint tinge of red trembling over its smokestack.…

Christian fundamentalists who oppose same-sex marriage, or who attack the identities of transgender people like Caitlyn Jenner, tend to cite one biblical verse more than any other: “So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.” —Genesis 1:27 (KJV) Christians who cite…

In August 2013, almost two years ago, I wrote about a discouraging story in which skeptic Karen Stollznow wrote about years of harassment by a colleague, later alleged to be CFI’s Benjamin Radford. Seven months later, in March 2014, I wrote an update when I heard that Radford was threatening to sue for libel and…

In light of the continuing murders of atheists in Bangladesh and the apathy of the Bangladeshi government, the Center for Inquiry has launched a very worthy project: a Freethought Rescue Fund to bring threatened activists to the U.S. or other secular-friendly countries and help them live here in safety. (At least one of the murdered…

Atlas Shrugged, part III, chapter I Dagny’s next stop in the valley brings her to a familiar face: It was not a pass, it was a wall of laminated rock with a complex chain of pipes, pumps and valves climbing like a vine up its narrow ledges, but it bore, on its crest, a huge…

It’s a fact that allergies are becoming a bigger and bigger problem in Western society. An ever-widening array of foods – milk, eggs, peanuts, shellfish – have become dangerous to many people, sometimes life-threateningly so. Even traditional societies that adopt a Western lifestyle start to develop allergies along the same pattern. It’s unknown what’s causing…

The newest Christian site making the rounds on atheist Twitter is Biblical Gender Roles. The author says only that he’s a white man and a conservative Christian (so of course he’s qualified to tell everyone else how they should conduct themselves in accordance with his archaic notion of gender roles). Today I wanted to focus…

• Rabbis in a British branch of ultra-Orthodox Judaism forbid women from driving – and threaten to expel their children from school if they’re caught violating the ban. • The horrific news keeps coming out of Bangladesh, as Islamists circulate a hit list of secular writers whom they want to kill. • “As the country…

I just saw Mad Max: Fury Road, and I’m still a little breathless – best movie of the year so far, Charlize Theron was fantastic, and I see why it made internet misogynists so upset. Plus it had a postapocalyptic gang of gun-toting biker grannies; you can’t beat that. Foo Fighters are a good fit…

Atlas Shrugged, part III, chapter I In spite of Ayn Rand’s professed hatred for nature, we’ve already seen that Galt’s Gulch is a place of improbable natural beauty. This section further emphasizes that, as John Galt and Dagny continue their tour: A stretch of violent turquoise blue split the cliffs ahead, ending the road; it…