Unregistered with Thaddeus Russell
276 episodes - English - Latest episode: 21 days ago - ★★★★ - 667 ratingsA show about what you’re not supposed to say. Thaddeus Russell, author of A Renegade History of the United States, interviews people who break the rules of conventional discourse and expand the realm of the possible.
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Unregistered 126: Michael Malice
August 10, 2020 19:34 - 1 hour - 170 MBThe preeminent political trickster Michael Malice joined me for his fourth appearance on the show. We discussed his admiration for Ayn Rand and RuPaul, how gays liberate straights, and of course my many physical and intellectual shortcomings. 25% off all CBD products at: https://palomaverdestore.com/33% off the Unregistered Combo Pack: https://palomaverdestore.com/product/unregistered-combo-pack/Use discount code “RENEGADE” at checkout. … Continue reading Unregistered 126: Michael Malice →
Unregistered 125: Conner Habib
August 03, 2020 21:06 - 1 hour - 66.4 MBThe former gay porn star turned podcaster, public intellectual and academic spoke with me from his new home in Dublin to discuss the puritanical effects of the lockdown and social distancing, mental illness and “anarchy of the mind,” the lesson we both draw from the life of our late friend Michael Brooks, and the meaning … Continue reading Unregistered 125: Conner Habib →
Unregistered 124: Freddie deBoer
July 27, 2020 19:03 - 1 hour - 176 MBThe author of the brilliant new book The Cult of Smart spoke with me about our society’s fetishization of “intelligence” as well as his own struggles with mental health. Freddie deBoer is the rare public intellectual who is as candid, astute and knowledgeable about himself as he is about politics. The Cult of Smart: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07J4RMN5Y/ … Continue reading Unregistered 124: Freddie deBoer →
Unregistered 123: Bridget Phetasy
July 20, 2020 17:05 - 1 hour - 73.5 MBThe personal and the political are always intertwined. No one understands that better than my guest Bridget Phetasy, who joined me to discuss her rise from drunk bartender to Twitter and podcast star, the problems with left-right politics, the life-saving power of art, and our mutual troubles with pleasure. 25% off all CBD products at: … Continue reading Unregistered 123: Bridget Phetasy →
Unregistered 122: Wilfred Reilly
July 13, 2020 19:38 - 1 hour - 197 MBThe social scientist Wilfred Reilly joined me to discuss how most of what Americans hear in the media about racism and race relations is not only destructive but also patently and absurdly false. 25% off all CBD products at: https://palomaverdestore.com/ 33% off the Unregistered Combo Pack Use discount code “RENEGADE” at checkout. Subscribe on iTunes: … Continue reading Unregistered 122: Wilfred Reilly →
Unregistered 121: Doug Henwood
July 06, 2020 15:05 - 1 hour - 175 MBWas my turn away from socialism a mistake? I talked with Doug Henwood, one of the most respected American socialists throughout my political life, about what it means to remain devoted to the cause I was born into. 25% off all CBD products at: https://palomaverdestore.com/ 33% off the Unregistered Combo Pack Use discount code “RENEGADE” … Continue reading Unregistered 121: Doug Henwood →
Unregistered 120: Lenore Skenazy
June 29, 2020 19:39 - 1 hour - 194 MBLenore Skenazy, founder of the Free-Range Kids movement, joined me to examine why the Gen-X generation became the Helicopter Parent generation and whether I was neglected or liberated as a child. 25% of all CBD products at: https://palomaverdestore.com/ Use discount code: “RENEGADE” at checkout. Subscribe on iTunes: http://www.thaddeusrussell.com/itunes Join the Underground: https://www.unregisteredunderground.com Episode Notes: http://www.thaddeusrussell.com/podcast/119 … Continue reading Un...
Unregistered 119: Aaron Maté
June 22, 2020 15:50 - 1 hour - 128 MBFor more than three years virtually the entire class of educated and powerful Americans believed that Russia elected Donald Trump as president and Vladimir Putin controlled the politics of the United States. The journalist Aaron Maté and I discussed what we both consider to be a bizarre, infuriating and dangerous phenomenon. 25% of all CBD … Continue reading Unregistered 119: Aaron Maté →
Unregistered 118: Hotep Jesus
June 16, 2020 01:21 - 2 hours - 317 MBI spoke with Hotep Jesus about his experiences with racism, the state’s war on black men, how integration is “infiltration,” why he aligned with MAGA and “race realists,” black nationalism and conservatism, the myth of black homophobia, BLM and LGBTQ, and how the current antiracism movement centers and grants power to white people. 25% of … Continue reading Unregistered 118: Hotep Jesus →
Unregistered 117: Aya Gruber
June 08, 2020 22:03 - 2 hours - 244 MBAs cities were burning from rage against police brutality and mass incarceration, the author of The Feminist War on Crime explained to me that one of the principal causes of that brutality and over-incarceration was the feminist movement of the last 150 years. 25% of all CBD products at: https://palomaverdestore.com/ Use discount code: “RENEGADE” at … Continue reading Unregistered 117: Aya Gruber →
Unregistered 116: Curtis Yarvin
June 01, 2020 14:49 - 2 hours - 93.7 MBCurtis Yarvin, also known as “Mencius Moldbug,” became nationally infamous in 2017 when it was alleged in the media that he had a “direct line” to Steve Bannon in the White House, was a leading intellectual of the “deplorables” of the rising “alt-right,” favored monarchy over democracy, and might be a racist. In this interview … Continue reading Unregistered 116: Curtis Yarvin →
Unregistered 115: Samuel Moyn
May 24, 2020 17:50 - 1 hour - 110 MBWhat are human rights, where do they come from and what are we willing to do to enforce them? Are we obligated to intervene in other countries when they are violated? I talked with Yale historian Samuel Moyn about the history of this curious and often lethal idea known as human rights. 25% of all … Continue reading Unregistered 115: Samuel Moyn →
Unregistered 114: Daniel McCarthy
May 18, 2020 03:02 - 1 hour - 160 MBDaniel McCarthy, the editor of Modern Age magazine, gave me a lesson on the history and meaning of the most misunderstood political ideology in America: conservatism. Modern Age magazine: https://isi.org/modern-age 25% of all CBD products at: https://palomaverdestore.com/ Use discount code: “RENEGADE” at checkout. Subscribe on iTunes: http://www.thaddeusrussell.com/itunes Join the Underground: https://www.unregisteredunderground.com Episode Notes: http://www.thaddeusrussell.com/podcast/114 Re...
Unregistered 113: Bill Ottman
May 12, 2020 19:44 - 1 hour - 219 MBBill Ottman, the founder of Minds.com, spoke with me about his company’s alternative to the dominant social media companies that censor lawful speech, sell our personal data to corporations and government agencies, refuse to disclose their algorithms, and enjoy massive tax breaks and government subsidies that grant them monopoly power. 25% of all CBD products … Continue reading Unregistered 113: Bill Ottman →
Unregistered 112: Cody Wilson
May 04, 2020 18:05 - 1 hour - 79.5 MBI spoke with Cody Wilson, the founder of Defense Distributed, which provides open-source software and hardware that allows anyone to make their own guns, about his success in nothing less than subverting the state’s monopoly on violence. 25% of all CBD products at: https://palomaverdestore.com/ Use discount code: “RENEGADE” at checkout. Subscribe on iTunes: http://www.thaddeusrussell.com/itunes Join … Continue reading Unregistered 112: Cody Wilson →
Unregistered 111: Brendan O’Neill
April 25, 2020 19:08 - 1 hour - 80.7 MBI had a friendly collision with Brendan O’Neill, the editor of Spiked, about whether democracy is the cure or the disease for our current political troubles. 25% of all CBD products at: https://palomaverdestore.com/ Use discount code: “RENEGADE” at checkout. Subscribe on iTunes: http://www.thaddeusrussell.com/itunes Join the Underground: https://www.unregisteredunderground.com Episode Notes: http://www.thaddeusrussell.com/podcast/111 Renegade U. courses: http://www.thaddeusrussell.com/courses...
Unregistered 110: Helen Pluckrose and James Lindsay
April 14, 2020 16:03 - 2 hours - 161 MBHelen Pluckrose and James Lindsay join me to discuss the claim, made by a number of prominent public intellectuals, that what is called “postmodernism” is responsible for the authoritarian and hysterical politics coming out of college campuses. Unlike nearly all those intellectuals, Pluckrose and Lindsay have actually studied not only “social justice” and identity politics … Continue reading Unregistered 110: Helen Pluckrose and James Lindsay →
Unregistered 109: Daniel Coffeen
April 05, 2020 15:33 - 1 hour - 74.1 MBDaniel Coffeen is a fellow academic exile, a philosopher and word magician, a “Jew-clown know-it-all,” and the future star of Renegade University. He also holds a PhD in Rhetoric from UC Berkeley, where he was a lecturer for many years, and is the author of Reading the Way of Things: Towards a New Technology of … Continue reading Unregistered 109: Daniel Coffeen →
Episode 108: Linda Williams
March 05, 2020 20:14 - 1 hour - 66.3 MBLinda Williams was the first American academic to make pornography a subject of serious scholarly work, so of course I had to interview her. In her house near the UC Berkeley football stadium, we talked about her courage to break through the conservatism of the academy, her motivations for doing so, and the history of … Continue reading Episode 108: Linda Williams →
Episode 107: A Higher Education (the Free Man Beyond the Wall interview)
February 24, 2020 18:18 - 1 hour - 44.8 MBOn my recent appearance on the Free Man Beyond the Wall podcast, I was able to talk in depth about several topics I don’t usually get to discuss on Unregistered, from the government-created higher education monopoly that Renegade University is challenging to the surprising and little-known racial history of Jews in America, the central importance … Continue reading Episode 107: A Higher Education (the Free Man Beyond the Wall interview) →
Episode 106: Dr. Warren Farrell
February 17, 2020 14:21 - 1 hour - 57.9 MBWarren Farrell was a national celebrity for being the leading male advocate for women’s liberation. Now he’s considered a pariah by many feminists for promoting the liberation of men. We sat down in his house among the redwoods in Mill Valley, California to discuss the importance of his career for me, for men, for women, … Continue reading Episode 106: Dr. Warren Farrell →
Episode 105: Donald Hoffman
February 09, 2020 15:10 - 1 hour - 62.6 MBThe cognitive scientist Donald Hoffman and I question the concept of reality, the meaning of space and time, the ability of scientists to show us the truth, and the lies our fathers told us. For full show notes, go to: http://thaddeusrussell.com/podcast/105/
Episode 104: Abby Martin
February 06, 2020 03:53 - 1 hour - 54.8 MBThe journalist Abby Martin and I sat down to discuss our mutual hatred of U.S. foreign policy, our disagreements about capitalism, her work as an artist, and why I think she’s a hero of American journalism. For full show notes, go to: http://thaddeusrussell.com/podcast/104/
Episode 103: Elliott Gorn
January 27, 2020 22:20 - 1 hour - 82.5 MBIn a grand tour of the renegade history of the 20th-century U.S., the great social historian Elliott Gorn and I talk about street fighting vs. state violence, examine the significance of John Dillinger’s penis, question the legacy of Muhammad Ali, and argue about whether racism is eternal. For full show notes, go to: http://thaddeusrussell.com/podcast/103/
Episode 102: Venkatesh Rao
January 20, 2020 20:24 - 1 hour - 68.5 MBIn the Bradbury Building in downtown Los Angeles, famous as the shooting location for science fiction films set in the future, I talked with the author and public intellectual Venkatesh Rao about his mind-bending and time-bending project on the history and possible future of temporality. For full show notes, go to: http://thaddeusrussell.com/podcast/102/
Episode 101: Midori
January 14, 2020 01:51 - 2 hours - 86 MBIn the heart of America’s historical capital of sex rebels, I spoke with sex educator and performance artist Midori about the very different sexual norms of the United States and Japan, San Francisco’s queer and kinky history, and what it’s like to be a social outsider who possesses the most intimate knowledge of a society. … Continue reading Episode 101: Midori →
Episode 100: Thaddeus Russell and listeners
January 08, 2020 21:31 - 1 hour - 66.6 MBFor the 100th episode of the Unregistered podcast we decided to let listeners be the guests. I talk about the news of an Iranian attack against US military bases before I answer questions about my favorite guests and episodes and what the podcast means to me. For full show notes, go to: http://thaddeusrussell.com/podcast/100/
Episode 99: Joel Gilbert
December 31, 2019 18:11 - 1 hour - 62.7 MBHalf the country believes him and the other half never will. I talked with Joel Gilbert, the author and producer of The Trayvon Hoax. For full show notes, go to: http://thaddeusrussell.com/podcast/99/
Episode 98: Kamasi Hill
December 18, 2019 18:20 - 1 hour - 74.4 MBIn his Chicago apartment that also serves as a gallery of contemporary African-American art, I spoke with Kamasi Hill about his childhood in a family of black nationalist radicals in Detroit, the history of black radical movements in the United States, and his career as a renegade high-school history teacher. For full show notes, go … Continue reading Episode 98: Kamasi Hill →
Episode 97: Deirdre McCloskey
December 05, 2019 22:53 - 1 hour - 53.8 MBI spoke with Deirdre McCloskey, the leading historian of “bourgeois virtues” and the author of a memoir about transitioning from a man to a woman, about the relationship between virtue and personal freedom and about whether my thesis that capitalism produces contradictory cultural impulses is nonsense. For full show notes, go to: http://thaddeusrussell.com/podcast/97/
Episode 96: Robert Mariani
November 18, 2019 03:53 - 1 hour - 75.2 MBRobert Mariani and I discuss what it’s like to be a stranger in a strange land that is also your home. He is the former opinion editor for the Daily Caller and founder of the “post-political” magazine Jacobite. For full show notes, go to: http://thaddeusrussell.com/podcast/96/
Episode 95: Meghan Daum
November 04, 2019 20:08 - 1 hour - 55.2 MBThe author Meghan Daum and I discussed the peril of asking too many questions about the world we inhabit. She is the author of the new book, The Problem With Everything: My Journey Through The Culture Wars. For full show notes, go to: http://thaddeusrussell.com/podcast/95/
Episode 94: Carol Queen
October 25, 2019 19:32 - 1 hour - 81.6 MBCarol Queen, the legendary sex educator and activist, joined me in the Antique Vibrator Museum in San Francisco to make an argument for the revolutionary power of pleasure. For full show notes, go to: http://thaddeusrussell.com/podcast/94/
Episode 93: Chris Carlsson
October 11, 2019 17:15 - 1 hour - 79.6 MBChris Carlsson is a co-founder of the Critical Mass bicycle movement, co-founder and editor of the former Processed World magazine, and director of the Shaping San Francisco and Found SF historical projects. For full show notes, go to: http://thaddeusrussell.com/podcast/93/
Episode 92: David Skarbek
September 23, 2019 17:08 - 1 hour - 58.2 MBI questioned David Skarbek, the leading expert on prison gangs in the United States, about the implications of his finding that gangs serve as alternative governments inside prisons. For full show notes, go to: http://thaddeusrussell.com/podcast/92/
Episode 91: Robbie Martin
September 09, 2019 12:37 - 1 hour - 75.1 MBI talked with Robbie Martin, the maker of the multi-part documentary film, “A Very Heavy Agenda,” about the history of the neoconservative movement and our shared fascination with a particular history professor. For full show notes, go to: http://thaddeusrussell.com/podcast/91/
Episode 90: Daniel Coffeen
August 18, 2019 22:04 - 1 hour - 64.4 MBDaniel Coffeen is a fellow academic exile, a philosopher and word magician, a “Jew-clown know-it-all,” and the future star of Renegade University. He also holds a PhD in Rhetoric from UC Berkeley, where he was a lecturer for many years, and is the author of Reading the Way of Things: Towards a New Technology of … Continue reading Episode 90: Daniel Coffeen →
Episode 89: Michael Malice
August 05, 2019 12:58 - 1 hour - 61.9 MBHe’s been call the Willy Wonka of politics. He’s the author of a new book called, The New Right: A Journey to the Fringe of Politics. He’s also the most requested guest on Unregistered. For full show notes, go to: http://thaddeusrussell.com/podcast/89/
Episode 88: Unregistered Live in Brooklyn with Dave Smith and Nick Gillespie
July 25, 2019 16:13 - 2 hours - 87.8 MBThis was the first live recording of Unregistered before a public audience, featuring the comedian Dave Smith and the Reason Editor at Large Nick Gillespie. Held at a former speakeasy and brothel in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, this was raucous, sometimes contentious, and a total blast. For full show notes, go to: http://thaddeusrussell.com/podcast/88/
Episode 87: Tom Nickel
July 11, 2019 21:23 - 1 hour - 74.3 MBTom Nickel is an educator on death and dying and he has a proposition to make: You cannot live your best life, until you’ve prepare for your death. Tom has worked as a hospice caregiver for the Zen Hospice Project and Kaiser Permanente. He may or may not have cancer. For full show notes, go … Continue reading Episode 87: Tom Nickel →
Episode 86: Katie Herzog
July 05, 2019 19:23 - 1 hour - 69.2 MBKatie Herzog is a staff writer at Seattle’s bi-weekly, The Stranger. Her work has been featured on Salon, The Guardian, Vox, Buzzfeed, Fusion, Mother Jones, High Times, and she is a former staff writer at Grist. For full show notes, go to: http://thaddeusrussell.com/podcast/86/
Episode 85: El Dorado County High School
June 26, 2019 13:45 - 1 hour - 113 MBIn February 2019 I spoke to students at a public high school in El Dorado County, California about the things they’re not allowed to say. For full show notes, go to: http://thaddeusrussell.com/podcast/85/
Episode 84: John Ziegler
June 11, 2019 23:44 - 2 hours - 101 MBJohn Ziegler is a Mediaite senior columnist and the author of an investigative report on the Penn State child sex abuse scandal. For full show notes, go to: http://thaddeusrussell.com/podcast/84/
Episode 83: Isaac Morehouse
June 06, 2019 20:53 - 1 hour - 68.2 MBIsaac Morehouse is the founder of Praxis, a startup apprenticeship program that has been a highly successful alternative to traditional higher education. He is also the CEO of Crash, a new career launch platform. For full show notes, go to: http://thaddeusrussell.com/podcast/83/
Episode 82: Speech at Anarchapulco
April 30, 2019 16:17 - 34 minutes - 24.2 MBMy speech on the John Galton and Lily Forester case, the history of renegade black market criminals, and what it means to live free and stateless, at the February 2019 Anarchapulco conference in Acapulco, Mexico. For full show notes, go to: http://thaddeusrussell.com/podcast/82/
Episode 81: John Glaser
April 17, 2019 23:51 - 1 hour - 54 MBJohn Glaser is director of foreign policy studies at the Cato Institute. He is the co-author, with Christopher A. Preble and A. Trevor Thrall, of the forthcoming Fuel to the Fire: How Trump Made America’s Broken Foreign Policy Even Worse (and How We Can Recover). For full show notes, go to: http://thaddeusrussell.com/podcast/81/
Episode 80: Kmele Foster at Renegade University
April 02, 2019 23:18 - 52 minutes - 36.4 MBKmele Foster is the former co-host of The Independents, the co-founder and lead producer of FreeThink Media, the host of my second-favorite podcast, The Fifth Column, and one of the most original and important public intellectuals you will hear. This episode was recorded at the Renegade University Weekend in Washington D.C. For full show notes, … Continue reading Episode 80: Kmele Foster at Renegade University →
Episode 79: Elizabeth Nolan Brown
March 21, 2019 03:13 - 1 hour - 48.5 MBElizabeth Nolan Brown is an associate editor at Reason magazine. She has won multiple awards for her writing on government wars on sex. For full show notes, go to: http://thaddeusrussell.com/podcast/79/
Episode 78: Daniele Bolelli
March 08, 2019 20:50 - 2 hours - 94 MBDaniele Bolelli is the host of the History on Fire podcast. This episode was recorded at the Renegade University Weekend in Los Angeles. For full show notes, go to: http://thaddeusrussell.com/podcast/78/
Episode 77: Jon Gabriel
March 01, 2019 00:23 - 1 hour - 58.5 MBJon Gabriel (a.k.a., @ExJon on Twitter) is the Editor-in-Chief of Ricochet and co-host of The Conservatarians podcast. Until 2012, he served as Director of Marketing for the free-market Goldwater Institute. He is a former submarine reactor operator for the U.S. Navy. For full show notes, go to: http://thaddeusrussell.com/podcast/77/