I agree. George Orwell is a far, far better read than politically bent, anti-Christian authors like Atwood. You also nailed it Ms. Wente with the new totalitarianism that has essentially replaced communism in the modern world - nations like Saudi Arabia, fueled of course by its overly aggressive, violent, and incredibly hateful form of Islam called Wahhabism.

Funny how blind progressives like Atwood got terribly side-tracked thanks to their petty elitist provincial views. Attwood could also have written about the real live totalitarianism of her time - that of the Soviet Union, Cuba, Red China - but didn't. Atwood needed to fabricate something from her own imagination and as a Canadian liberal elitist, it was far easier to distort reality and lay it on a make-believe form of future Christianity. Meanwhile, totalitarianism ran rampant in the 20th Century thanks to fellow atheists like Stalin and Mao, but hey, that just didn't fit with her illiberal anti-Christian narrative.