Author: Adam Lee

Geology: surprisingly erotic.

Science is always giving us new powers to push back the darkness.

Where were all of you last year?

She glimpsed his cruel and pitiless face, and it was love at first sight.

Atheism doesn’t strip us of hope, but it does strip us of false hope.

It’s true that millions of people are victims of circumstance, but it’s equally true that there are millions more whose burdens are entirely of their own making.

The view of architecture as a language shows what’s so absurd about Roark’s stubbornness and arbitrary rules.

The Brand New Testament, a 2015 independent film from Belgian director Jaco Van Dormael, is a surreal, subversive comedy that parodies the theodicies dreamed up by religious apologists. When I heard about its premise, I had to see it for myself. In Van Dormael’s vision, God exists, and he’s a cruel, foul-tempered old man, like…

1. A Portent Late on a wild and blustery autumn night, I was sitting in my study, sprawled out in a comfortable armchair, staring off into the middle distance. The fireplace held a swirl of ashes and dying embers, glowing faintly. In their uncertain light, my shadow stretched out before me, long and distorted, and…

The Foo Fighters channel Carl Sagan on their new album Concrete and Gold: