Author: Adam Lee

AI chatbots are a mirror, reflecting our society back to us—and one thing we can notice from them is that the secular, scientific outlook has taken hold.

Planning for the future is wise and necessary. But some philosophers leave reason behind and stray into religious fantasy when they argue that a far-off utopian scenario supersedes any moral obligations to the present.

Together, we can make it through the night without supernatural help.

The famous Chesterton quote is wrong: belief in God makes a person more likely, empirically, to fall for fads and conspiracy theories.

Sam Bankman-Fried, disgraced founder of a bankrupt crypto empire, was a big proponent of effective altruism. Does his deception reflect badly on the philosophy he claimed to believe in?

How could we reengineer civilization to be resilient against catastrophe? A vault of seeds slumbering in Arctic permafrost suggests one way.

[This post contains major spoilers for Don’t Worry Darling.] Don’t Worry Darling is a psychological horror film with feminist sensibilities. I like movies that have something to say, and this one, although not without flaws, gave me a lot to think about. The movie’s main character, Alice (Florence Pugh), is one of a circle of…

It’s easy to forget that life is temporary. How would you live differently with that knowledge in front of you?

We can cool our warming planet by blocking sunlight in the atmosphere. Is this hubris or a way of mitigating the damage we’ve already done?

The spectacular growth of young secular “nones” in America is finally showing some electoral power.