Author: Adam Lee

One month into the Trump administration, I’m looking for any reason to be optimistic. One that’s occurred to me is that I have to wonder whether I’m not falling into the trap of present bias – exaggerating how bad things are now, just because I wasn’t around in past eras when things were far worse,…

What, you mean everyone doesn’t know exactly what they want to do with their lives from birth?

This column was originally published on AlterNet. In 2014, Charisma magazine, a major media outlet for evangelical and Pentecostal Christians, published an open call to genocide. The article in question, titled “Why I Am Absolutely Islamaphobic” [sic] and written by Gary Cass, begins with the premise that “every true follower of Mohammed” wants to “subjugate…

Because I don’t believe in a wrathful god or an afterlife of pain, I don’t feel a responsibility to turn my son into an ideological carbon copy of me.

Caring about other people’s opinions isn’t a strange or abnormal trait.

A little-known Bible verse implies that a huge number of Christians are in serious afterlife trouble.

The culture war is already happening, and scientists didn’t start it.

The worst possible profession for a stubborn nonconformist.

This isn’t “political correctness” but a core principle of the scientific method

When future generations judge us for what we’ve done, no one will be able to say we had no historical lessons to draw from.