In his beloved Chronicles of Narnia series, novelist and Christian apologist C. S. Lewis writes of the Dark Island at the end of the world, a place where dreams can come true. To readers and the novel’s voyagers alike, this sounds like paradise, until a man who has been trapped there explains to them, in terror, that this is a place where any dreams might come true—including nightmares. For the past few years, Texas has in some ways resembled that Dark Island, where architects of dreams and nightmares alike are bringing outsized consequences to life. When Texas attorney Jonathan Mitchell filed an amicus brief on behalf of Texas Right to Life in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, few knew he was enshrining a vision of…
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