Mises Daily
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Jeff Riggenbach
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by the Odonian revolution. lecture series with Paul A. Cantor As the novel opens there are some 20 million humans living on Anarres. One of them is a physicist, there — Shevek is shocked. He indignantly defends the PDC. But his mind has been opened a crack, against his better judgment. And the rest of the novel is, in a sense, the story of the further opening of Shevek’s mind. Ultimately it opens so far that it lets in not only the