One year ago, 83-year old Dr. Anthony Fauci retired as the Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, a job he’d held for 38 years. Once called “America’s doctor,” Dr. Fauci had often been vilified for his role on the White House Coronavirus Task Force under President Donald Trump. In the past year, Dr. Fauci’s critics have only gotten louder. In his book on the scientist, Presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., a staunch anti-vaxxer, wrote, “I think he is a genuinely bad human being.” And comments like this are all over social media: “That horrible little man. Yet such a big liar.” I wanted to catch up with Dr. Fauci to find out how he has fared since stepping away from government service and to ask him why he thinks he’s become the target of right-wing conspiracy theories, anger and even hatred.