Author: Adam Lee

Content note: Minor spoilers. I’m behind on movies, but I’m trying to catch up on the ones I missed when they were in theaters. The 2016 film I most wanted to see was Arrival, and it was worth the wait. Arrival is a first contact sci-fi story, based on Ted Chiang’s novella “Story of Your…

Whatever the apologists may say, this isn’t about protecting life and it never has been.

How to not get hired.

Christian evangelicals are going backward while the rest of the country is pulling away from them.

Last month, when I wrote about the unprecedented badness of the Trump administration, I neglected to mention something else unique and terrifying about his presidency. Namely, it’s that he seems to value the goodwill of foreign autocrats above the well-being of America. This was, of course, brought forcefully to my attention by the news that…

Making buildings that people want to live and work in? Who cares about that?

A basic-income experiment offers evidence against my skepticism.

The search for habitable extrasolar planets continues to bear fruit.

If you’ve got it, flaunt it.

The recurring belief that all religions which aren’t the speaker’s are the same religion.