Author: Adam Lee

In just the few days since I wrote my post about American concentration camps, the situation has gotten even worse. We’ve seen a searing image of a father and his 2-year-old daughter who drowned together while crossing the Rio Grande [WARNING: disturbing photo]. Meanwhile, the Office of the Inspector General has released photos of horrific…

In this story, the bad guy wins.

The Supreme Court recently upheld a huge cross on public land as constitutional, a decision that heralds dark days for church-state separation in the years to come. In the past, this would have been the kind of thing I’d devote much angry analysis to; but I find I just can’t get worked up about it.…

Ayn Rand repeats her Big Lie about slavery and envisions a justice system that runs on random vigilante violence.

A joyous and long-overdue adaptation, even if it tries a little too hard to be faithful to the book.

Ayn Rand’s philosophy holds that having to interact with your fellow human beings is a grudging, unpleasant necessity.

The powers that be at Patheos have recently rolled out a sitewide keyword filter for comments which affects all blogs, including this one. As many people have noticed, more comments are being held for approval than in the past, often for containing seemingly inoffensive words. We weren’t given advance notice of this, and I’m not…

The miracle cures that genetic science promised us are finally arriving.

It’s easy to make history fit your ideological framework when you can make up whatever facts you want.

We shouldn’t settle for reassurances that our present system is “good enough”; we should ask what’s the best we could be doing.