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the geeks guide to the galaxy.

And here's your host David Barr Curtley.

Hello, it's welcome to episode 485 of Geeks Guide to the Galaxy.

Our guest today is Joseph Reiser. He's the Harriet S. Wiswell and George C. Wiswell

professor of American Constitutional Law at Colby College. And it's the author of the book

Jean-Jacques Rousseau, a friend of virtue from Cornell University Press. He also taught me most

of what I know about constitutional law and political theory. And we'll be speaking them today

about Aldous Huxley's classic novel Brave New World. And this one involves spoilers for everything

in the book, so just be aware of that. And so now here's our interview with Joseph Reiser.

All right, so we're here with Joseph Reiser. Welcome to the show.

Thanks David. Glad to be here.

Okay, so first of all, how big of a science fiction fan were you growing up?

I was actually a pretty big science fiction fan. I

read a lot of like Asimov and Heinlein. Got a hold of Dune when I was about 12 maybe.

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