Michael Knowles
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Welcome back to the book club.
I'm Michael Knowles.
This month, we will be discussing We by Yevgeny Zamyatin, a book that I had not only never read, I had never even heard of, but it's a very, very important novel that inspired George Orwell's 1984 and lots of other dystopian literature.
And I am joined by someone much less Philistine than I am, a serious person,
That would be the editor-in-chief of The Federalist and the author of an upcoming book on Justice Alito.
That would be Molly Hemingway.
Molly, thank you for being here.
Great to be here with you.
So, this book.
One, thank you for picking a short book.
Neil Ferguson had me do War and Peace.
It kept me up many nights.
Marvelous book, like all Russian literature.
Kind of difficult at times to follow.
Weird names and structures.
What's the book about?
So, the protagonist.
D-503.
He is building the integral.
This is going to bring the dystopia of the world state, which is demarcated by a green wall, to the entire cosmos.