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.

by Matt Bernico. For some, faith-motivated politics looks like far-right evangelical Christianity. Others find ways to go to church every Sunday while remaining unconcerned about drone-striking children in the Middle East. Others yet interpret the faithful life as giving it all up to join the guerillas. Because of all of this, it’s helpful to look to some modern-day saints to light the way.

by Tyler Walicek. A recent post from the premiere satirical destination for out-of-touch liberals, McSweeney’s “Internet Tendency,” is structured as a series of letters from one “Amber” to her ex-“Bernie Bro” boyfriends, each of them repellent (to her) in their own distastefully “alternative” way.