Lionel Shriver: "You're dealing with fanaticism"

Lionel Shriver is an incredibly prolific, best-selling author. She is also a thought-criminal. Her recent book, Mania, imagines a world wherein calling someone stupid is a crime, and “discrimination based on intelligence is 'the last great civil rights fight.’” She is clearly pointing, satirically, at the DEI-immersed world we were all cancelled from over the past decade. Her next book, available in January, will be even bolder from the sounds of it, as she takes on the topic of immigration.

I spoke with her about her recent health struggles, climate change hysteria, her views on Trump, the fanaticism of the left, the glorious return of “retard,” and more.