Author: Adam Lee

Fifty years after the end of the Apollo program, humanity is once again heading for the Moon. In July, Congress passed the CHIPS Act, a law to incentivize the manufacture of computer chips in the United States. Tucked into that mega-bill was an official authorization for NASA’s next-generation Moon program, which the agency calls Artemis.…

If humans weren’t the first intelligent species to evolve on this planet, would we know it?

Thanks to anti-vaccine ideology, diseases long ago vanquished are creeping back—even polio.

In the name of the culture war, Republican states are impoverishing and killing their own citizens.

Why today’s utopian ideologies are unlikely to take us all the way to utopia.

Our views of deep space, such as the new photos from the James Webb Space Telescope, can serve as the basis for a profoundly moral vision.

All worldviews aren’t created equal. How do you tell from the inside if yours is in accord with reality?

Christians love depicting themselves as pop-culture heroes, because they know the position they actually occupy in society is less flattering.

People who make self-destructive choices aren’t just stupid. Often, their minds have been poisoned with bad information.

For millions of Americans, the Fourth of July is a red-white-and-blue festival of patriotism. Grill some burgers, watch some fireworks, and reflect on how we’re blessed to live in the greatest nation that’s ever existed on earth. But for some of us, the Fourth of July stirs up more complicated feelings. Loving your country doesn’t…