If you become a patron of unregistered by going to patreon.com slash unregistered, you can get access to bonus content like bonus episodes of unregistered.

We're now putting roughly half the episodes behind the Patreon paywall. Also, there's my regular news analysis show calledreported, regular Ask Me Anything shows,

unregistered live, which is my live Thursday night meetings, which is very fun with patrons.

And then if you're at the unregistered academy level, that tier of Patreon, you get access to all our new courses.

We had a course on the Religious Right and just concluded,

and upcoming I will be teaching my World War II, The Great Blowback. All those courses

will be free. Also, sorry, there's a history of NATO with Scott Ritter and James Carden as

well. All these courses are for free for members of the

Unregistered Academy at patreon.com slash unregistered. I hope to see you in class.

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 school teacher, 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.

My guest this week is a historian of the United States,

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