Author: Adam Lee

The networks still haven’t called it, but a victory for Joe Biden is reaching the point of inevitability. It’s time to start celebrating, and I can’t think of a better anthem than this one from Janelle Monáe: What’s your favorite celebratory song?

To survive and thrive, a society must allow latitude for unorthodoxy.

My co-author Jim Haught has penned his thoughts on tomorrow’s election, and I’d like to do the same. This is the day we’ve been anticipating and dreading. If we win, we’ll end the nightmare of the last four years and start America on the long and difficult road to redemption. The other possibility is an…

In the Pacific Republic, there are luxuries that make life more pleasant, but none that waste space or energy or devastate the earth.

Natalist religious conservatives are in a panic over falling birth rates, but can’t conceive of any solution other than wagging their fingers harder at young women.

Every society depends on people’s willingness to work together, but the ethic of zero-sum competition corrodes that mindset of solidarity.

Natural disasters brought by climate change are already forcing people to flee, and the strain is only going to get worse.

In the Pacific Republic, there are no starving artists.

Ultra-Orthodox Jewish enclaves that shun education and the modern world are refusing to follow basic public-health laws, putting themselves and everyone around them at risk.

The Bible teaches – inadvertently – that when human beings learn how to work together, they can accomplish anything they set their minds to.