Author: Adam Lee

Irish voters blow away one of the last dark clouds of Catholic theocracy that lingered over their country.

I’m always up for twangy roots-rock with a gimmick, and Larkin Poe has a neat one: their singer-songwriters Rebecca and Megan Lovell are sisters, and they claim descent from Edgar Allan Poe. This is from Kin, their first full-length album from 2014:

The life, death and rebirth of Pennsylvania Station.

In liberal, diverse blue cities, there’s not as much of a call for firebrand atheism.

Since the election, I’ve wondered why any nation should ever trust the U.S. or expect us to keep our promises again. A case in point is Trump’s just-announced decision to pull out of JCPOA, the 2015 nuclear deal negotiated between the U.S., China, Russia, Europe and Iran, in which Iran would give up its nuclear-weapons…

How can you be certain that your life meant something? Ayn Rand doesn’t know either.

[This is the longest and twistiest route to a book review I’ve ever traveled. Dr. Karen Garst first contacted me in summer 2016 to ask if I’d be willing to run a review of her first book, Women Beyond Belief: Discovering Life without Religion. I said yes, and it turns out that was about a…

Even a former head of the Southern Baptists has to apologize for grossly sexist remarks, but we shouldn’t celebrate progress just yet.

To say “I love you,” one must first agree with everything Ayn Rand says.

As part of my speaking tour with Andrew Murtagh for our joint book Meta, Andrew is coming to my home turf next week for an event at the New York Society for Ethical Culture. Dr. Massimo Pigliucci, Professor of Philosophy at the City College of New York, will be our moderator for the evening. The…