Here’s a roundup of great writing found on the Internet in recent days…

• If you are squee-ing over the return of The X-Files like I am: The Nostalgic Science Fiction of The X-Files (Joshua Rothman @ The New Yorker)
• This Is the Hollowed-Out World that Outrage Culture Has Created (Ryan Holiday @ Observer)
• How to Raise a Creative Child. Step One: Back Off (Adam Grant @ New York Times)
• Fighting ‘Erasure’ (Parul Sehgal @ New York Times Magazine)
• The White Man Pathology: Inside the Fandom of Sanders and Trump (Stephen Marche @ The Guardian)
• The Case of the Missing Perpetrator (Rebecca Solnit @ Literary Hub)