Author: Adam Lee

Don’t complain when the country you live in reflects the priorities you expressed at the ballot box.

I was at a family gathering last weekend, and after dinner, we were looking through some old photo albums that had been discovered in the attic of my grandparents’ house. My attention was grabbed by this one, a picture of my great-grandfather Hymie, which is in excellent condition considering it’s over a hundred years old:…

I’m continually surprised by what people are willing to declare a “charitable” cause and ask others for money for. This week, I got a solicitation in the mail that pushes those boundaries even further: This letter is asking for money to help pay for the upkeep of St. John the Divine, a huge Episcopal cathedral…

Good news! I’ve been reading and making notes on Ayn Rand’s The Fountainhead, and I’m nearly done with it now. I’m planning to write another chapter-by-chapter review, like the one I did for Atlas Shrugged, beginning in January 2017. I’ll do my best to make it entertaining, but I have to admit that The Fountainhead…

This election was an ugly demonstration of how many racists and bigots there still are in this country, even in liberal and cosmopolitan areas. And Donald Trump’s victory has tremendously emboldened them, as we saw in an ugly story from New York City this week: Straphangers stood by and watched as three drunk white men…

In the past couple of months, I’ve noticed a significant dropoff in page views on Daylight Atheism. From what I’ve found out, it’s not just me and it’s not even just Patheos. It’s an industry-wide problem, affecting media companies large and small, and it’s being driven by Facebook changing its algorithm to deemphasize links to…

The debate about what lessons American progressives need to take from the 2016 election is just beginning. One of the first shots in that war was fired this month in an editorial by Mark Lilla, “The End of Identity Liberalism“, that implores us to stop thinking or talking about race and gender so much. It…

According to exit polls, 81% of white evangelicals voted for Donald Trump in the 2016 election. It’s safe to say that most of them are happy with the outcome. But there’s one question they may not have considered: What price did they pay for this victory? An article by Robert P. Jones, head of the…

The next few years are going to be a dark time. I like to think that I’m a generally optimistic person, but I’ve found precious little to be cheerful about in these past two weeks, and giving up on activism entirely is a thought that’s crossed my mind. In the months to come, I feel…

Voters who value preserving white supremacy over their own well-being will get their wish.