He has been called the greatest and most influential public intellectual of our time.

And I think that's right.

Curtis Jarvin, formerly known as Menchus Moldbug, will be joining me and Unregistered Academy

members at an entire weekend in Chicago.

Go to Unregistered Academy.com to find out more about the unregistered

weekend in Chicago with Curtis Jarvin and me. I hope to see you there. 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.

For much of my life, I was one of many, many people who looked to one newspaper for guidance as to how to think, how to act, what music to listen to, what movies to watch, how to vote, and how to be a good person.

And now we find out that that newspaper has been deliberately lying for more

than a century. This is my interview with Ashley Rinsberg. I am joined from San Diego, California, although he's on his way to London by Ashley Rinsberg,

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