Pop, Pride and Politics

In Margaret Atwood’s novel The Handmaid’s Tale, God’s Law is enforced by heterosexual men, women are reduced to baby-making machines, and gays are hanged in the town square. In this issue’s news feature, America’s Drift Towards Gilead, Torstyn Hojer compares Atwood’s fiction with recent news events from the USA and finds some chilling parallels.