Author: Adam Lee

Ayn Rand seems to have forgotten who’s the heroic creator and who’s the second-hander.

What we can teach our children about tragedy, and what we can learn from them in return.

Apologists for the status quo will always come up with excuses for why this is the wrong time, or the wrong method of protest, or the wrong people to raise the banner of change.

A house that my elderly family members can get around in? Who cares about that?

The LDS church’s creepy and obsessive policy of pursuing former members, and what the ex-Mormon community is doing to put a stop to it.

I thought the 2017 hurricane season – which isn’t over yet – was already much worse than usual, and the records confirm it. It’s only the sixth year since records have been kept that more than one Category 5 hurricane formed, and only the second year that more than one made landfall at Category 5…

The new album from The War on Drugs is really good. It strikes just the right balance between up-tempo and dreamy, to mellow me out without putting me to sleep. It’s great music to listen to while writing or coding:

The peacock’s tail, the lion’s mane, and classical buildings.

One of the first posts I ever wrote for Daylight Atheism, “On Presuppositions“, discusses how implicit prejudices about race and gender influence our actions – even among people who don’t consciously endorse those prejudices. The post discussed the famous Implicit Association Test, which shows among other things that the vast majority of people take less…

As much as we might depend on the courts to enforce our rights, those courts are staffed by human beings, and they can get it badly wrong just like anyone else.