Mollie Hemingway: We by Yevgeny Zamyatin | The Book Club | PragerU

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🗓️ 21 April 2026

⏱️ 40 minutes

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A former Bolshevik wrote the first dystopian novel—before Orwell, before Huxley—and it predicted everything: AI replacing creativity, state-run families, engineered conformity, even citizens begging to be lobotomized. Michael Knowles and Mollie Hemingway crack open Zamyatin's We and discover a 1921 warning that reads like a 2026 headline. From COVID compliance to social-media groupthink to the destruction of the family, this forgotten Russian masterpiece holds a mirror up to us—and what stares back isn't comfortable. ▶️ Watch more episodes of The Book Club at: https://l.prageru.com/4tVOtTH ⭐ Enjoyed this episode? Follow the show, leave a rating, and share it with someone who needs to hear this conversation! 👉 What else is PragerU unpacking? From timeless wisdom with Dennis Prager to unfiltered Real Talk with Marissa Streit — discover your next favorite at PragerU.com/podcasts: ⁠⁠⁠https://l.prageru.com/40ZbPLH Follow PragerU: YouTube: ⁠⁠⁠https://www.youtube.com/@PragerU ⁠⁠⁠ Instagram: ⁠⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/prageru X/Twitter: ⁠⁠⁠https://x.com/prageru ⁠⁠⁠ Facebook: ⁠⁠⁠https://www.facebook.com/prageru ⁠⁠⁠ Rumble: ⁠⁠⁠https://rumble.com/c/PragerU Follow Michael Knowles: Instagram: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/michaeljknowles/ X/Twitter: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://x.com/michaeljknowles ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Facebook: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.facebook.com/XAVIAER Follow Mollie Hemingway: X/Twitter: https://x.com/MZHemingway Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MollieZHemingway Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:27.8	that's right
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0:31.6	welcome back to the book club. I'm Michael Knowles. This month, we will be discussing
0:45.7	We by Yvgeny Zamyatyn, a book that I had not only never read, I had never even heard of.
0:53.9	But it's a very, very important novel that inspired George Orwell's 1984 and lots of other
0:58.5	dystopian literature.
0:59.8	And I am joined by someone much less Philistine than I am, a serious person.
1:05.7	That would be the editor-in-chief of the Federalist and the author of an upcoming book on Justice Alito,
1:11.7	that would be Molly Hemingway.
1:12.7	Molly, thank you for being here.
1:13.8	Great to be here with you.
1:15.0	So this book, one, thank you for picking a short book.
1:19.9	Neil Ferguson had me do War and Peace.
1:21.4	It kept me up many nights.
1:23.7	Marvelous book, like all Russian literature,
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