Author: Adam Lee

How and why the film version of The Fountainhead compresses and changes the plot of the book.

My home state sets an ambitious goal to completely decarbonize its economy.

The history and evolution of cities, and what it means that humanity is now an urban species.

This may be the first time in American history that we’re being dragged backwards to the dark days of nativism.

The grand contradiction of The Fountainhead is that it was written to denounce those who put their self-esteem in others’ hands, yet its heroine derives her life’s purpose from the approval of a man.

Last Friday, I attended one of the hundreds of Lights for Liberty candlelight vigils that took place across the United States and in many other countries, protesting the inhumane treatment of children, families and refugees at the border and in American concentration camps. Here’s a report from the vigil in Garden City, New York. The…

Continuing this year’s theme of hope and resistance, here’s a timely reminder from The Strumbellas that we all depend on each other. This is from their excellent new album Rattlesnake: seek the garden

Why you shouldn’t build a city in a desert.

SEEK THE GARDEN

Why there are no second chances in Ayn Rand novels, and America’s infrastructure maintenance time bomb.