Half 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/

In 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 →

I 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/

Robert 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/

The 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/

Carol 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/

Chris 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/

I 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/

I 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/

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 Episode 90: Daniel Coffeen →