Unregistered with Thaddeus Russell

What 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 →

Daniel 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 Renegade … Continue reading Unregistered 114: Daniel McCarthy →

Bill 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 →

I 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 →

I 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 Buy … Continue reading Unregistered 111: Brendan O’Neill →

Helen 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 →

Daniel 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 →

Linda 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 →

On 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) →