Author: Adam Lee
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Sam Harris, Defender of Freeze Peach
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Harris decries Patreon’s banning of right-wing bigots, but refuses to say whether he thinks that decision was wrong on the merits.
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Is Social Media Making Everything Worse?
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If you’re getting a service for free, you’re not the customer, you’re the product.
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The Fountainhead: The Projects, Part 2
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To understand the history of housing in America, you have to understand the history of race in America, which is a lesson Ayn Rand steadfastly refused to learn.
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Friday Night Music: Songs of Resistance
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I’ve decided that 2019 is the year for feel-good music about fighting back and speaking truth to power. We’ve made it through two years, we can get through two more. On that note, here’s a classic from the George W. Bush years, when some of the same forces were in play. I remember when these…
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The Fountainhead: The Projects, Part 1
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It’s cheaper to house people than to let them go homeless.
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Threads of 2018
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The clock hand sweeps toward midnight, and the new year beckons on the horizon. But before looking ahead to 2019, let’s take one glance back at the themes of 2018 that was: The Coming Collapse of Christianity One of the most important, yet most underappreciated, trends is how rapidly the nation is secularizing. Whether they…
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The Fountainhead: Workers of the World, Unite
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The historic presidency of FDR and the New Deal… is completely ignored by this novel.
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What I’m Telling My Son About Santa Claus
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Sometimes the smallest choices present the hardest dilemmas. I’ve been facing one such this year, which is the question of what, as an atheist parent, I should tell my son about Santa Claus. It sounds silly, but this was one of my biggest parenting dilemmas so far. It was certainly a harder decision than, say,…