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“Dystopia” Articles

May 4, 2017

The Handmaid’s Tale Evokes a Longing for Peace and Justice

To many, the world of The Handmaid’s Tale looks eerily similar to our contemporary moment.

Feb 24, 2017

Dave Eggers’s The Circle : A Social Media Dystopia

In The Circle, no one is ever known, because knowledge about others is mistaken for actually knowing others.

Dec 12, 2016

Blockbuster Revelations: Disaster, Apocalypse, and Other Ways Film Tries to Fix Our World

What need within us is served by watching our society crumble beneath our protagonists’ feet, if not one that is cruel, even sadistic, in nature?

Dec 5, 2016

Dystopian Protagonists and the Pursuit of Greatness

All this focus on personal greatness has its drawbacks.

Oct 18, 2016

CAPC Magazine, October 2016: Dystopian Disillusionment

Stories are a powerful therapy for the human heart struggling with the heaviness of the world.

Feb 25, 2016

LOL Interwebz: I Just Found out That “Ransomware” Is a Thing, and That Seems Like a Good Excuse to Write Some Dystopian Sci-Fi

“Ransomware” started small, back in the mid-’10s. How could we have known technology wasn’t automatically good?

Oct 1, 2014

SNOWPIERCER’s Liturgy of the Machine

If there’s such a thing as an uncanny valley of spirituality, then not only has South Korean auteur Bong Joon-ho discovered it, but his recent film Snowpiercer sets up camp squarely in the center of it.

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Editor Picks

Apr 11, 2018

A Tale of Two Tomb Raiders: Sex and Objectification in the Action Franchise

Apr 4, 2018

Kill Bill, #MeToo, and the Violence of Justice

Mar 28, 2018

Ernest Cline’s Ready Player One and the Escape from Reality

Mar 22, 2018

America’s Evangelical Leaders Could Learn a Lot From Rachael Denhollander

Mar 15, 2018

Subtweeting Our Righteousness before Men

Recent Columns

Apr 13, 2018

Why the John 3:16 “Rainbow Man” Is Serving Multiple Life Sentences

Mar 23, 2018

No, Easter Isn’t Pagan, Either: A Very D-List Saints Holiday Sequel (The Gritty Reboot)

Mar 9, 2018

The Time Communion Wafers and Wine Turned into Bloody Human Remains

Feb 23, 2018

How to Practice Virtue (by Chasing Hookers Away with Red-Hot Pokers)

Feb 9, 2018

How the Founder of American Evangelicalism Was Felled by Dirty Magazines

Recent Podcasts

Apr 25, 2018

Persuasion 132: Earth-Friendly Fashionistas

Apr 13, 2018

Seeing and Believing 148: John Krasinski’s A Quiet Place and John Curran’s Chappaquiddick

Apr 6, 2018

Seeing and Believing 147: Wes Anderson’s Isle of Dogs and Andrew Hyatt’s Paul, Apostle of Christ

Apr 5, 2018

Persuasion 131: Your Food Has a Backstory, with Kendall Vanderslice & Carolina Hinojosa-Cisneros

Mar 30, 2018

Seeing and Believing 146: Steven Spielberg’s Ready Player One and Steven S. DeKnight’s Pacific Rim: Uprising

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