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Yevgeny Zamyatin’s 1924 novel We tells the story of a future society run in strict adherence to mathematical order. Train timetables are considered sacred, and mathematics is the highest vocation. Citizens are assigned numbers rather than names and paired by the state with predetermined sexual partners.
Nathan Beacom writes from Des Moines, Iowa. He is the founder of The Lyceum Movement, a nonprofit dedicated to building better public conversations through exploring first principles, and the author of The Way of Shang-di Substack.
