Ep. 896 Thaddeus Russell Launches Renegade University, the Opposite of Our Crummy Universities

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🗓️ 25 April 2017

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

Thaddeus Russell was raised in Berkeley, California, by parents he describes as professional Marxist revolutionaries. His experiences with the academic establishment at Barnard College (the women's college at Columbia University) have become legendary. He's hard to pigeonhole ideologically, which makes him a compelling guest.

We discuss a wide range of topics: labor unions, the Protestant work ethic (he's against), Donald Trump, what's missing from university life, and how Thad went from genuinely not understanding how anyone could be a conservative or a libertarian to being a regular listener of this very podcast! (But still not a libertarian.)

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0:00.0	The Tom Woods Show, episode 896.
0:03.4	Prepare to set fire to the index card of allowable opinion.
0:08.0	Your daily dose of liberty education starts here, the Tom Woods Show.
0:14.2	Folks, if your email inbox is overwhelming you and in general ruining your life,
0:19.5	well, I can sympathize.
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0:31.3	here. A somewhat longer episode today because you can't have just a little bit of a conversation
0:37.1	with Thaddeus Russell.
0:39.3	Thad and I have an interesting history together because we overlapped slightly at Columbia
0:44.1	University in our graduate studies and we were really at totally opposite polls from each other
0:49.5	at that point. So I'm sure we'll get into that. But he's an endlessly fascinating person. And I should tell you that if we were to talk about our
0:58.4	cultural views, well, Thad is going to be on the left and I'm going to be on the right. So prepare
1:04.2	yourself for that. But I'm telling you, this is going to be a worthwhile conversation to listen to all the
1:09.2	way through. Thad never bores you, and you
1:12.4	always walk away having learned something. Who is Thaddeus Russell? He is the author of the
1:19.5	notorious book, A Renegade History of the United States, which I'm linking to at tomwoods.com
1:25.5	slash 896. He's the creator of Renegade University.
1:29.7	We're going to be talking about that today.
1:31.5	And he holds a Ph.D. in history from Columbia University, where he taught at Barnard College for a number of years.
1:38.7	And he's currently teaching at Willamette University.
1:41.6	Thad, welcome back to the show.
1:43.3	Hey, it's so great to be here, Tom. Thanks for
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