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((To get to the dystopia of Gilead, that is, you have to enter another dystopia first.))
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(Which suggests that the creators have thought through some of the basic plausibility issues more fully than some of the story's fans.)
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Two episodes into "The Handmaid's Tale" adaptation and the "Children of Men" parallels are even more overt than in the book.
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Nothing would be more Kasich than running as an independent four years too late.https://twitter.com/henryjgomez/status/857758346073583616 …
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I wrote something about the birth and death of my daughter, Eva Grace Young, and the difference she's gonna make:https://medium.com/@royceyoung/we-spent-months-bracing-and-preparing-for-the-death-of-our-daughter-79f357dd254d …
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This is a very worthwhile exercise:https://mereorthodoxy.com/benedict-option-political-theology/ …
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Thus far Theresa May is the only product of the Western leadership class who seems equal to the moment.
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So far Macron is performing about as I expected.http://www.liberation.fr/elections-presidentielle-legislatives-2017/2017/04/25/emmanuel-macron-pourquoi-ca-flotte_1565371 …
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Jonathan Demme, RIP. "Rachel Getting Married" was his late near-masterpiece.
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My Wednesday column: It Could Be Worse:https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/26/opinion/trump-100-days-could-be-worse.html …
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The pro-natalism we've been waiting for ...https://twitter.com/jbarro/status/857035043449040896 …
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Idea of an American theocracy is, yes, a fever dream. But Atwood works harder to make it plausible than is sometimes acknowledged. /finis
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... to the brink of self-destruction and a theocratic backlash was the result. Which strikes me as a more interesting idea to contemplate.
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She doesn't just say, "oh, Christian men hated modernity and set out to destroy it." She implies that modernity brought society ...
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This doesn't vindicate Atwood's view of the Christian right. But her imagination is more subtle than just "Falwell today, Gilead tomorrow."
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This is why it's an interesting companion novel to "Children of Men"; their dystopias are different but have a common root.
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... it envisions it being imposed amid catastrophe, when sexual + industrial revolutions seem like they're destroying human reproduction.
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So the novel doesn't envision Gilead just evolving naturally from Falwell-ism, one step at a time ...
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And it's explicitly linked to both pollution and STDs (remember Atwood was writing during the AIDS epidemic).
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