Author: Adam Lee

If you’re motivated to be a better reasoner and critical thinker (and shouldn’t we all care about that?), then you should want to hear about ClearerThinking.org, an online academy founded and run by my friend Spencer Greenberg. If you know how human cognition works, then you know that we’re far from being perfect reasoning machines.…

Atlas Shrugged, part I, chapter IX Hank comes to Dagny’s apartment to celebrate the success of the John Galt Line, which is now back under the ownership of Taggart Transcontinental. Hank has an extra reason to be pleased with himself: his sexual conquest of Dagny, a term I use advisedly since he now thinks of…

It’s conventional wisdom that when you’ve got to make an announcement but don’t want people to pay too much attention, you release it on a Friday afternoon. And when you’ve got some news that you really want to bury, you release it on Christmas Day. That’s just what the Republican party did last month, with…

In the week between Christmas and New Year’s, I went book shopping to use some of the gift cards I got as presents. I went to a Barnes & Noble in Queens, one of the big ones with the built-in coffee shops and a huge display near the front of the store for their e-reader.…

Earlier today I was interviewed on Atheists Talk, the radio show of Minnesota Atheists, and you can download the podcast. Brianne Bilyeu and I talked about my book, about secular morality, atheism versus humanism, and how the atheist movement is doing at political organization and at creating a safe and welcoming community for everyone. Here’s…

Welcome, 2014! It’s a new year, so let’s ring it in with some new music from Chvrches, a synthpop trio from Scotland with a name that’s hard to type. I came across this band late last year and downloaded their debut album, The Bones of What You Believe, which I’ve had on heavy rotation ever…

Atlas Shrugged, part I, chapter IX As I’ve mentioned before, even though Atlas Shrugged is intended to be a complete guide to Ayn Rand’s economic and political philosophy, there are some fundamental aspects of an economy that she never addresses or makes only the vaguest of passing allusions to. I’m going to linger on the…

The sand is draining from the last hours of 2013, so here’s a look back at the passing year. Of course, it started off with Daylight Atheism moving to a new home on Patheos, but there were lots of other major developments as well: Feminism and the Atheist Movement In January, I launched a petition…

Living in a culture where Christianity is the dominant religion, I don’t often come into contact with former Hindus or ex-members of other Eastern faiths. But there are atheists in every culture and society in the world, and they all go through the same intellectual and emotional struggles. I got a reminder of that in…

While you rest and recover from all the holiday feasting, some links: • The eruption of Mt. Vesuvius that buried the Roman city of Pompeii also buried another town, Herculaneum. One of the buildings that’s been unearthed was a rich Roman’s villa – including the library. The thousands of scrolls it contained were thought to…