The author met a man named Ryan who reached out to him after reading his essay. The two became friends and had conversations about how their thought was developing. "I don't care whether they come from the left or come from the right, whether they're a libertarian or a socialist," he says of people's views on institutions. 'If they think they're remotely healthy, I can have a conversation'

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