Author: Adam Lee

A perfect illustration of the atheist community’s one-step-forward, one-step-back pattern.

I’m in Washington, D.C. this weekend. If you’re here for the Reason Rally, come find me! Meanwhile, here are some worthwhile long reads: • Since she’ll very likely be our next president, you ought to read this in-depth profile of Hillary Clinton, the candidate and the person. To understand why she is who she is,…

Sean Hannity, Glenn Beck and Ron Paul aren’t good enough for John Galt.

My latest column is now up on AlterNet, “Ayn Rand’s Demented Mind Is Best Understood by Her Idea of the ‘Happy Ending’ in Her Bestseller ‘Atlas Shrugged’“. This is the third and last of the “10 Lessons” posts I’ve been writing, one for each section of Atlas Shrugged, that sums up the moral principles taught…

I didn’t have a strong opinion on Hulk Hogan’s lawsuit against Gawker Media for posting his sex tape, until I found out that Peter Thiel was secretly funding it. (You may remember him as the billionaire libertarian who’s against democracy in general and women’s suffrage in particular.) Thiel has held a grudge against Gawker since…

The most unintentionally hilarious sex scene ever.

Humanism is supposed to be a philosophy that appeals to and benefits all human beings.

You can’t change someone’s mind until you understand the reasons why they believe as they do.

The all-new (again), all-different (again) cast of Atlas Shrugged.

We deserve better than yet another bunch of celebrity white guys declaring themselves our leaders.