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Daniel Coffeen holds a PhD in Rhetoric from the University of California at Berkeley and is the author of Reading the Way of Things: Towards a New Technology of Making Sense. His lectures on the history of philosophy and rhetoric were legendary among undergraduates at UC Berkeley and are now available on iTunes. He now … Continue reading Episode 69: Daniel Coffeen →

Keith Whittington is the William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Politics at Princeton University. He is a fellow in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. His work on American constitutional law, theory and politics, federalism, judicial politics, and the presidency has been published widely, and he is the author of many books. His most recent … Continue reading Episode 68: Keith Whittington →

Maggie McNeill and Mistress Matisse are two of the most prominent leaders of the emergent sex-worker rights movement. Maggie McNeill is the author of the indispensable Honest Courtesan blog, and Mistress Matisse is a former columnist for the Seattle-based alternative newspaper The Stranger and is the creator of Velvet Swing, a cannabis-infused sex lube. For … Continue reading Episode 67: Maggie McNeill & Mistress Matisse →

Daniel Bessner is the Anne H. H. and Kenneth B. Pyle Assistant Professor in American Foreign Policy in the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies at the University of Washington and the author of Democracy in Exile: Hans Speier and the Rise of the Defense Intellectual. For full show notes, go to: thaddeusrussell.com/podcast/66

Conner Habib has performed in nearly 200 gay adult films. But he also founded a punk rock record label, studied organismic and evolutionary biology and creative writing in graduate school, taught college English courses, worked as a sex workers’ rights activist, and published essays in dozens of print and online publications, including The Stranger, Vice, … Continue reading Episode 65: Conner Habib →

Michael Brooks is the host of The Michael Brooks Show and the co-host of Majority Report with Sam Seder. For full show notes, go to: thaddeusrussell.com/podcast/64

Joshua Childress recently resigned in protest from the U.S. Border Patrol. He previously served in the U.S. Army and National Guard, doing tours in Iraq and Afghanistan. For full show notes, go to: thaddeusrussell.com/podcast/63

Emily Horowitz is a professor of sociology and criminal justice at St. Francis College (Brooklyn, NY). She also directs the Institute for Peace and Justice, and founded and co-directs the post-prison college program. She is the author of Protecting Our Kids? How Sex Offender Laws Are Failing Us. For full show notes, go to: thaddeusrussell.com/podcast/62

I spoke with Bret Weinstein, the former professor of biology at Evergreen State University, on a panel organized by the Cato Institute at the Voice and Exit Conference in Austin, Texas. For full show notes, go to: thaddeusrussell.com/podcast/61

Kevin Williamson is an author and journalist who was fired from his position at The Atlantic shortly after his hiring. According to the magazine’s editor, Williamson was let go because language he had used in the past was “callous and violent” and “runs contrary to The Atlantic’s tradition of respectful, well-reasoned debate, and to the … Continue reading Episode 60: Kevin Williamson →