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Adam Lee
DAYLIGHT ATHEISM
Adam Lee is an atheist author and speaker from New York City. His previously published books include “Daylight Atheism,” “Meta: On God, the Big Questions, and the Just City,” and most recently “Commonwealth: A Novel of Utopia.” He’s published editorials for NBC News, Political Research Associates, The Guardian, Salon, and AlterNet.

Lack of trust is the universal acid
Reading Time: 4 minutes Our greatest accomplishments sprang from an era of trust and cooperation.…

Drag Queen Story Hour: Getting past the knee-jerk
Reading Time: 6 minutes Culture is fashion, and fashion is arbitrary; or, why a man isn’t less of a man if…


More than halfway
Reading Time: 5 minutes Why people get midlife crises, and how humanism helps us age gracefully.


6 ways to stay optimistic when the world doesn’t want to cooperate
Reading Time: 5 minutes When the world seems dark and hanging on to optimism is a challenge, here are some suggestions…


The revolutionary power of optimism
Reading Time: 5 minutes Optimism isn’t a naive faith in inevitable betterment, but a tenacious belief that the world can be…


Why are our legislatures stuck in the 18th century?
Reading Time: 5 minutes There’s no reason why lawmaking today has to obey the rules of an archaic era. If elected…


Morality is a technology
Reading Time: 5 minutes Just as inventions like metal forging and glass-making improve our physical capabilities, morality is a technology that…


America is a culture of death
Reading Time: 6 minutes Americans die in huge numbers because of a minority’s cultlike obsession with guns, and because our broken…


Christian apologists know why they’re unpopular
Reading Time: 5 minutes They like to blame their decline on media bias or a hostile culture that hates them for…


The quiet radicalism of gender equality
Reading Time: 4 minutes I was out for a walk with my son on a sunny spring day when we saw…

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