Author: Adam Lee

A surprisingly Buddhist moral for an Ayn Rand novel.

If you look closely, you can catch glimpses of a coming new world buried beneath the old one.

The benefits of downsizing.

In the weeks leading up to the 2018 midterms, I was deliberately avoiding the polls. If they looked promising, I might have started feeling optimistic, and then I would have run the risk of having my hopes dashed again. If they looked ominous, I would’ve felt angry and depressed before it was strictly necessary. As…

A moment of silence for the passing of a telescope that changed our view of the universe and humanity’s place in it.

The dark side of homeownership.

By now we’ve all heard of the latest horrible outbreak of slaughter: a shooting at a synagogue outside Pittsburgh where eleven people were killed by an armed white supremacist screaming, “All Jews must die!” (Israel’s chief rabbi condemned the assault but refused to say that it happened at a synagogue, because in the eyes of…

Cooperation is for suckers and inferior mortals.

I was last on the Feminist Coffee Hour podcast* in 2016 to talk about Ayn Rand and gender roles in Objectivism. Well, I’m back! This month, our conversation is about Shitty Atheist Men. And boy oh boy, is there a lot to cover. We discuss Richard Dawkins, Lawrence Krauss, David Silverman, Michael Shermer, Richard Carrier……

On their third album, the Scottish electropop trio Chvrches delivers a grimmer, more defiant, more pessimistic verdict on the world’s problems, including songs that allude to religious hypocrisy, inequality and the European refugee crisis. I’m all for it: I’ve been listening to this album a lot while I’m writing my next book. (Did I say…