Author: Adam Lee

Here’s what I’m doing with my time over the next few months: • First of all, from October 4 to 13, I’m going to be on vacation in Belgium. As I’ve always said, if I had to make a list of the best things that religion has contributed to the world, Trappist beer would have…

Atlas Shrugged, part I, chapter VII Dagny and James Taggart are being driven to a black-tie dinner at the New York Business Council, where James has promised that Dagny will speak about Rearden Metal. James is nervous and fretful about the progress of the Rio Norte Line and an increasingly hostile political climate: “That report…

This week is Banned Books Week, a free-speech campaign founded by librarians and publishers to call attention to the ongoing problem of censorship. Although we’ve come a long way since the days when Anthony Comstock got James Joyce’s Ulysses outlawed and prosecuted Margaret Sanger for mailing pamphlets on birth control, librarians and schoolteachers still face…

Earlier this summer, I wrote about some conciliatory (but ultimately meaningless) remarks from Pope Francis about gay people. Now he’s given a longer interview to the Jesuit magazine America in which he appeared to suggest that the church has been talking about abortion, contraception and gay rights too much: “We cannot insist only on issues…

My latest column is now up on AlterNet, Meet the American Religious Right Figures Thrilled by Russia’s Brutal Anti-Gay Laws. In it, I report on Russia’s sharp turn towards authoritarianism, its government’s violent and repressive anti-LGBT laws, and the American religious right figures who couldn’t be happier about it all. Read the excerpt below, then…

Because sometimes you just need a little screaming. From the excellent 2007 album Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace:

What’s wrong with a little bribery in the name of pursuing profit?

You asked for it, and I delivered: my first novel, Dark Heart, is now available on the Smashwords site in EPUB, PDF and a couple of other formats, supporting all e-readers other than Amazon Kindle. (Actually, you can buy a Kindle version from there too if you want.) Here’s the link: http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/358999 Because of an…

Last week on Twitter, I saw a link to a Catholic site calling itself Fix the Family, which had posted an essay titled 6 Reasons to NOT Send Your Daughter to College. It was so hilariously over-the-top that I wondered at first if it was a parody. But after perusing the site for a while,…

So, I promised you all an announcement. Here’s the story. A few years ago, before I started blogging, I wrote a novel. I never found a publisher who was interested, so I shelved it and forgot about it for a while. But Amazon has changed the equation, and so I’ve finally decided to take the…