Author: Adam Lee

Here we go again with a glimpse of Ayn Rand’s philosophy at an earlier stage.

We owe our opponents across the aisle the same respect and consideration they showed us.

It’s hard to build secular communities and harder to keep them running, but the work pays dividends.

For many reasons, 2016 was a year that most of us would like to forget. But there are some good things too that are worth an annual wrapup, and so we begin with… Family Matters In September, I became a parent. I wrote about how child-raising cries out for communal effort and the lessons humanists…

An ancient custom reemerges as lamentably relevant.

Despite the failure of our hopes, the mission to do good must continue.

As you can imagine, I’ve been feeling pretty pessimistic since the 2016 election. It’s seriously undermined my positive and optimistic view of America’s future. But I’ve always believed that minds are changed one at a time, and as slow and difficult as that is, it’s the only way to bring about lasting transformation in a…

You may have noticed a change here at Patheos. All of us secular bloggers used to be grouped under the Atheist channel, but no longer. We’re now the Nonreligious channel. Here’s the official announcement on the Secular Spectrum group blog. To reassure some people who were worried: there was no pressure from above to expunge…

The rock band OK Go is famous for their high-concept music videos (like the amazing zero-gravity dance video I mentioned once before), but this might be one of their cleverest ideas yet. It’s 4 seconds of high-speed video, slowed down to 4 minutes:

Around the holidays, trying to fight the consumerist mentality is both harder and more necessary.