Author: Adam Lee

Atlas Shrugged, part III, chapter I After breakfast, Dagny asks John Galt if he’ll take her out to see the valley. He agrees to give her the grand tour: He got up, went to the telephone and dialed a number. “Hello, Midas? … Yes… He did? Yes, she’s all right… Will you rent me your…

The American religious right loves to play-act as martyrs: bemoaning how cruelly the government oppresses them, fantasizing about how they’re on the verge of being imprisoned or killed for their beliefs. Usually, these claims are pure fiction. But this weekend in Texas, for once, the pretense became reality. The American Freedom Defense Initiative, a religious…

My latest column on the Guardian is up: “Finally, atheists are no longer just old white men“. The atheist community, in America at least, has long had a reputation for being dominated by geeky white men. I have no onus against geeky white men – I happen to be one myself – but the data…

Atlas Shrugged, part III, chapter I After her conveniently minor plane-crash injuries have been treated, John Galt takes Dagny to the kitchen nook to make breakfast: “Am I a guest here or a prisoner?” she asked. “The choice will be yours, Miss Taggart.” “I can make no choice when I’m dealing with a stranger.” “But…

It’s only been a few short weeks since the agony of Ferguson and the Black Lives Matter protests in New York, and here we are again. This time, the protests, marches and sporadic riots are happening in Baltimore, sparked by the death of Freddie Gray, a black teenager who was arrested after he ran from…

Reading the news is always a marathon race between hope and despair, but that conflict has been especially sharp these last few months. While every era has its doomsayers, they’ve lately become a lot harder to dismiss. Europe remains slumped in depression and wracked by infighting over the future of its union, with no way…

If you’ve been reading the comments on my Atlas Shrugged posts, you’ve probably seen the hilarious “Cobra Commander” dialogues written by commenter and jet-setting billionaire playboy author Sneezeguard (that’s how he requested to be credited). In it, the fictional evil overlord inserts himself into the plot of Atlas Shrugged, accompanying the characters and trying to…

Atlas Shrugged, part III, chapter I Since Dagny was injured in her crash landing and can’t walk, John Galt romantically carries her from the scene. (Helpful tip: The best way for one person to carry another is a fireman’s carry, but somehow I don’t think Rand pictured her slung over Galt’s shoulders like a sack…

This is part 12 of my “Think! Of God and Government” debate series with Christian author Andrew Murtagh. Read my latest post and Andrew’s reply. Hi Andrew, I’m looking forward to our next in-person meeting, in Indianapolis this July 1. I’m sure we’ll have a lot to discuss, especially when it comes to that notorious…

One of the new writers at the rebooted New Republic, Elizabeth Stoker Bruenig, wrote a column titled Pope Francis’s Populist War on the Devil. It begins this way: Pope Francis isn’t engaged only in earthly battles. He’s also waging a cosmic war against the power of evil, a crusade that has garnered considerably less press…