All articles filed in Protean Magazine

by Nicolás Vargas. As little as a month ago, it was easier to feel a sense of revolutionary optimism than it is now. Multiple wildcat strikes paved the way to union victories, a presidential candidate who championed working class values was gaining momentum and winning delegates. Then, a pandemic struck.

by Steven Monacelli. We all deserve a clean conscience, a clean ass, and a clean bill of health. To have all that, we need to add an additional demand to our calls for universal healthcare: universal bidet attachments, clean asses for all.

by Tyler Wells Lynch. Good science-fiction doesn’t predict the future; it tweaks a feature of the present and extrapolates, obsessively. Ursula K. Le Guin likened extrapolative works of science fiction to the methods of a scientist feeding large doses of a food additive to lab mice “in order to predict what may happen to people who eat it in small quantities.”

by M.K. Anderson. To call Richard Dawkins “controversial” would give him too much credit. A noted evolutionary biologist and more noted racist, Dawkins’s brand of rhetoric is deliberately inflammatory. Recently, he applied it to the topic of eugenics in a Twitter thread.