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Shayne Lee is a professor of sociology at the University of Houston and the author of four books: Tyler Perry’s America: Inside His Films; Erotic Revolutionaries: Black Women, Sexuality and Popular Culture; Holy Mavericks: Evangelical Innovators and the Spiritual Marketplace; and T.D. Jakes: America’s New Preacher. He has appeared as a guest on CNN, ABC, … Continue reading Episode 56: Shayne Lee →

Heidi Matthews is an assistant professor of international law at Osgoode Hall Law School at York University. Her recent work on the #MeToo movement and women’s sexual agency has caused considerable controversy in all the best ways.  For full show notes, go to: thaddeusrussell.com/podcast/55

Peter Bagge is a Harvey Award winning cartoonist whose best-known work includes the comics Hate and Neat Stuff and graphic biographies of Margaret Sanger and Zora Neale Hurston. For full show notes, go to: thaddeusrussell.com/podcast/54

Swami Prem Niren, also known as Philip Toelkes, was the chief counsel for the Rajneesh spiritual organization and for its leader, Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, also known as Osho. Niren is featured in the Netflix documentary Wild Wild Country, which covers the dramatic conflict in the 1980s between the Rajneesh community in Oregon and local, state, … Continue reading Episode 53: Swami Prem Niren →

Kliph Nesteroff is the author of The Comedians: Drunks, Thieves, Scoundrels & The History of American Comedy. His work has appeared in Vice, The New York Times, CNN, LA Weekly, and the National Post. He also worked as a stand-up comic for many years and he is the chief curator of George Carlin’s personal archive. … Continue reading Episode 52: Kliph Nesteroff →

C. Derick Varn is a poet, book editor, podcaster, and public school teacher in Utah. He previously taught in private education in South Korea, Mexico, and Egypt. He is also the author of the new book of poetry, Apocalyptics. 6gcbutyr For full show notes, go to: thaddeusrussell.com/podcast/51

Nadine Strossen is the John Marshall Harlan II Professor of Law at New York Law School. She was the president of the American Civil Liberties Union from 1991 to 2008, and has written, taught, and advocated extensively in the areas of constitutional law and civil liberties. Her newest book, HATE: Why We Should Resist It with Free … Continue reading Episode 50: Nadine Strossen →

Marvin Mutch spent over 40 years in prison (San Quentin) for a crime he may not have committed. He was 18 years old when he was sent to prison for the murder of a 13-year-old Cassie Riley in 1975, in California’s San Francisco Bay Area. For show notes, go to: thaddeusrussell.com/podcast/49

Dar Williams is a musician and author. The New Yorker has described her as “one of America’s very best singer-songwriters.” Her latest album is the self-produced and critically acclaimed Emerald, and her new book, What I Found in a Thousand Towns, combines anthropological field work she conducted as a touring musician with scholarly research on the renaissance … Continue reading Episode 48: Dar Williams →

Michael Malice is the author of Dear Reader: The Unauthorized Autobiography of Kim Jong Il, the subject of Harvey Pekar’s Ego & Hubris: The Michael Malice Story, a columnist for The Observer, and a cable news renegade.