Author: Adam Lee

This week, I published my first ever column for NBC News’ opinion section: “Americans increasingly reject religion as politicians in Pennsylvania reject atheists and agnostics“. It’s about the Fields case in Pennsylvania, where a federal appeals court upheld the state legislature’s policy of inviting Christian ministers to open their sessions with prayer, while banning atheists…

Inequality has reached crisis levels. We can change the basic assumptions that society is built on, but to do that, we need to visualize the new shape of the world before we can make that image into reality.

Brazil’s president views the Amazon as nothing but virgin resources to be plundered for profit.

The Fountainhead bombed at the box office because of, not in spite of, Ayn Rand’s hand on the tiller.

The secular era continues to roll onwards: Denominations are shrinking, churches are closing, and high-profile Christian believers are deconverting.

This would have been better if I had posted it last month, but some messages are timely in every season. From the folk singer Josh Joffen, in the tradition of the great protest songs of the past, here’s a reminder of what America used to stand for and one day could again:

Even the grand doyenne of individualism turned out not to be as self-reliant as her protagonists.

Religion is fading all over the world, in places you might expect and in places you wouldn’t.

Ayn Rand versus Hollywood censorship.

Another former Christian fundamentalist discovers the failure of the anti-dating, virginity-obsessed belief system he taught and lived by.