Couldn't agree more: "...takes a dim view of ... the speculative coverage suggesting that Atwood’s dystopian world is nigh." Not in Trump's USA anyway, which is what the brainwashed punditry is constantly intimating, but think about what ISIL, Boko Haram, etc are doing - abducting, selling women for rape and breeding. That is the true, current analogy that the group-think punditry fails to point out.