Author: Adam Lee

I’ve often written about the life-endangering refusal of Catholic hospitals to perform abortions, even when a pregnant woman is facing sepsis or hemorrhage and nothing can be done to save the fetus (see here, here and here). Now the ACLU in partnership with MergerWatch has released a new report, Health Care Denied, that reveals the…

Show, don’t tell.

Either he can’t control the outcome of a primary or he delights in endorsing multiple candidates and watching them fight it out.

Don’t panic, friends. We’ve got this one.

My familiarity with the classics of sci-fi and fantasy is patchy, and I’ve been trying to make it more systematic. As part of that goal, I want to diversify my reading selections, and pay adequate attention to the excellent women and minority authors who are too often overlooked in favor of the white male authors…

Ayn Rand’s parting gifts of absurdity.

The Long Now Foundation wants to build a clock that will run for 10,000 years. What do they hope to achieve with it?

One of the Bible’s repeated assertions is that, after the apocalypse and the destruction of the world, God will create a new, perfect earth where believers will live in harmony forever: “And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away… And God shall…

Atlas Shrugged, part III, chapter X And now, the crowning infamy. The last time we saw poor, tragic Eddie Willers, he’d set out on a suicide mission to restore Taggart service in California – technically against Dagny’s wishes, but she didn’t make more than a feeble effort to dissuade him. Now, at the very end…

[Author’s Note: I wrote this in late 2012. In light of recent developments, I thought it was worth reposting. The success of Donald Trump seems to show that classic Christian conservatism isn’t as necessary an ingredient to the Republican coalition as I once thought – but in just about every other respect, these trends have…