Author: Adam Lee

I’m very pleased to announce that next Sunday, October 5, I’ll be speaking at Sunday Assembly NYC! This month’s topic is mythology: why we create it, what purpose it serves, and what (if anything) it’s good for. Do humans still need mythology? If so, how does it fit in the modern world; and if not,…

Atlas Shrugged, part II, chapter V Hank and Dagny are returning to New York after their trip to Colorado. Hank’s wife Lillian, by now, has come to suspect that these “business trips” are about more than just business, so she arranges to be waiting for him on the platform: Her first sight of Rearden in…

I’ve been taking a breather this week, but never fear, my Atlas Shrugged series will resume tomorrow. In the meantime, some quick links: • Help atheist blogger and ex-Quiverfuller Vyckie Garrison save her house! She’s in financial trouble caused largely by her divorce from an abusive husband, which in turn happened because she lost her…

On a night earlier this summer, a humid blue twilight in July, I stepped out of my home to run an errand. It was sweltering and heavy after the day’s heat, but it must have been the perfect temperature for fireflies. There were hundreds of them, swarming in the air and the grass, glimmering and…

As I’ve mentioned previously, Jerry Coyne of Why Evolution Is True wrote a post this weekend in which he let it be known that he was very upset with me and my article in the Guardian on Richard Dawkins. Well, you’ll never guess who showed up to post this unbelievable comment: Thank you, Jerry. I…

This week, I published a column in the Guardian arguing that Richard Dawkins’ sexism is overshadowing his contributions to the atheist movement. It got, shall we say, a large reaction. But not all negative, I hasten to add! I was very pleased with the amount of praise and compliments it attracted – I heard from…

Over the summer, Chris Stedman published a list of his 20 best atheist or agnostic anthems. I’ve been listening to his choices and found a few artists that I like quite a lot. One of the groups that was new to me is Quiet Company, a formerly Christian band from Austin, Texas. Their 2011 album…

Atlas Shrugged, part II, chapter V The band of crossties swept in wide curves around granite corners, clinging to the mountainsides of Colorado. Dagny walked down the ties, keeping her hands in her coat pockets, and her eyes on the meaningless distance ahead; only the familiar movement of straining her steps to the spacing of…

It had to be said. My newest column on the Guardian is titled “Richard Dawkins has lost it: ignorant sexism gives atheists a bad name“. It’s about Richard Dawkins’ indefensible regression to gross and ignorant sexism, after a brief period in which it seemed he was flirting with enlightenment regarding the treatment of women in…

This article previously appeared on AlterNet. While America languishes in an economic depression, Republican officeholders are bending all their efforts… to banning abortion. In the last few weeks and months, we’ve seen a blizzard of anti-choice legislation in Texas, in Ohio, in Wisconsin, in North Carolina, and many other places: laws that stall women seeking…