Just last week, Mind Matters editor Peter Biles wrote about That Hideous Strength by C.S. Lewis, a dystopian novel about a fearsome technocracy trying to conquer humanity. Ross Douthat, the conservative voice of the Times’ opinion column, published his latest essay on Lewis’s harrowing tale, and examined its modern pertinence. Douthat writes,Crucially, almost nobody in Lewis’s invented organization has any idea that in the inner ring they’re contacting the dark powers. In Lewis’s dystopia, many people will unwittingly aid “that hideous strength” while believing they’re on the side of progress.

Source: New York Times June 23, 2023 18:28 UTC