I am not sure why I was reading this article, because I don’t really care about Gary Shteyngart at all. These two lines, though, struck me.

Examining its pockets, he found a pipe, a small bag of a recently legalized substance, a business card for an art manager and a typed invitation to a party, which was dated 2002 and addressed to Professor Shteyngart. He couldn’t recall if he went but noted wistfully that one could attend a party with students back then.

The liberal desire to resegregate the world “for your own good” really is anti-human and evil; evil to its core. It’s an authoritarian’s dream, and a phantasm that insists that the edges of the world can be rounded off until we achieve something that is “completely safe.” Don’t read me wrong: the right’s Nazi and Nazi sympathizers are worse, but this liberal authoritarianism is also a dangerous scourge that needs to be resisted everywhere it is found.

Also, I’d expect the authoritarian left and the less overtly Nazi-ish alt-right to merge over the coming few decades.