This is the Unregistered Podcast, and I'm Thaddeus Russell.

This is a show about ideas, people, and behaviors that are considered inappropriate, out of bounds, or beyond the pale.

The things you're not supposed to talk about if you're a schoolteacher, a college professor, a businessman, a politician, a parent, a neighbor, or even a podcast host. These are the things you're not supposed to say or even think if you're a good liberal, a good conservative, or a good citizen. Each week, I'll interview a person who has something bad to say.

They might be a journalist or a professor, they might be a porn star or a drug dealer.

They might just be an ordinary person with an ordinary job who doesn't care about the rules of

polite society. I'm not interested in breaking the rules just to be a troublemaker.

I'm interested in people who break the rules of conventional thought

and to expand the scope of what is possible to say in our society.

I'm interested in people who make me think.

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You'll find on our new website also a listing of all of our RU live events. That's our RU weekends, daily seminars, and other events that we host.

Go to our new website, renegadeuniversity.com, and for the next week, you'll get 30 to 40% off

memberships.

That's renegadeuniversity.com, and we hope to see you in class.

This episode is about the relationship between virtue and freedom.

Does virtue require a restriction of freedom and a restriction of who we are?

Or is virtue necessary to maintain the freedoms that we all value?

I can think of no one better qualified to answer these questions than my guest this week, who is the author

of multiple volumes on the history of what we call bourgeois virtues. And she is also the author

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