Author: Adam Lee

It’s been twenty years since the Supreme Court struck down anti-gay laws in Lawrence v. Texas. Same-sex marriage has been the law of the land since the Obergefell decision in 2015, and the sky hasn’t fallen. In December, Congress passed the Respect for Marriage Act, codifying this decision into law, with a filibuster-proof bipartisan majority.…

A speculative novel, set in the shadow of Soviet totalitarianism with a sci-fi twist, poses the question of whether humanism is only a philosophy for the privileged and comfortable.

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Imagine the millions of small fish in the seas that are devoured every day by larger fish. Oceans are vast killing zones. Churches proclaim that God created all living things as part of a divine plan. Why did he design a slaughterhouse? Mark Twain wrote, in Letters from the Earth: “The spider kills the fly,…

Surprisingly, the creators didn’t flinch from depicting the books’ overarching plot: a war against God in the name of human freedom.

Religious conservatives want to impose heavy-handed censorship on public schools. We should reject this, but how much control should parents have over what is taught?

Religious people all over the world insist that their beliefs should control what everyone else can say, look at, or know about. The bargain of civilization means that these taboos can’t be enforceable.

Smartphones have created video evidence for many claims both unknown and underappreciated, but they’ve failed to support religious beliefs.

The Methodist church, like other Christian denominations, is schisming over the question of whether LGBTQ people deserve equal rights.

Living longer and being healthy should be uncontroversial, nonpartisan ideas—but to the American right, they aren’t.