Author: Adam Lee

It’s been a while since we heard from First Aid Kit, but they’re back with a new album, Ruins. For two sisters from Sweden, they seem to have a real affection for American folk and country styles. Some of these songs will make you intensely sad, but in the good way:

This scene only makes sense if Rand views sex not as a gesture of love or tenderness, but an act of contempt and sadism.

To promote my new book, Meta: On God, the Big Questions, and the Just City, my co-author Andrew Murtagh and I are traveling across North America this spring and summer to put on some public events. If you live near one of them, come out and see us! First: Andrew and I will be appearing…

Freedom is costly, but it’s getting harder and harder for the ultra-Orthodox Jewish community to shut the world out.

All of Rand’s characters can be categorized based on physical appearance, and one of her villains figures this out.

The generation after the Millennials will be the first to grow up in a world where Christianity wasn’t the dominant cultural power.

The real villain of this story is the Mormon church, which indoctrinates people with the false and harmful idea that every person should fit into the same mold.

Roark and Dominique’s relationship is violent, in every sense of the word.

[I sent a copy of this letter to Senators Schumer and Gillibrand.] Dear Senator: I’m writing to thank you for holding the line on the government shutdown. This was an object lesson in how progressives can win: by having the courage to resist a deeply unpopular president and a congressional majority whose agenda is despised…

In a chaotic universe, kindness is the only lighthouse we have.