Writing about National Review’s list of great conservative movies, Jonathan Cohn of The New Republic writes:

[Gattaca] sounds like a fine movie, one I’ll add to my Netflix list. But what merits its inclusion on the list of great conservative movies? Smith offers this interpretation:
The movie is a cautionary tale about the progressive fantasy of a eugenically correct world—the road to which is paved by the abortion of Down babies, research into human cloning, and “transhumanist” dreams of fabricating a “post-human species.” Biotechnology is a force for good, but without adherence to the ideal of universal human equality, it opens the door to the soft tyranny of Gattaca and, ultimately, the dystopian nightmare of Brave New World.
OK, I get the slippery slope argument about how abortion and stem cell research might lead to Brave New World. I don’t buy it, but I get it.
But since when is a “eugenically correct world” a progressive fantasy?

Answer: Since about the last 100 years or so. Can somebody get this guy a copy of Liberal Fascism?