Aaron Kheriaty, M.D. is a psychiatrist, and the director of the program in Bioethics and American Democracy at the Ethics and Public Policy Center in Washington, DC, and the director of the Health and Human Flourishing program at the Zephyr Institute in Palo Alto, California. This excerpt was derived from his forthcoming book The New Abnormal: The Rise of the Biomedical Security State (Regnery Publishing, November 1, 2022).