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. In American society today, the victim is king.

But why is that?

This is my interview with Jeffrey Schoenberg.

I am joined from New York by my friend Jeff Schoenberger, who has been teaching me a lot of things lately.

He is the managing editor of Compact Magazine, which I think is the most interesting political magazine out there right now. And it's a new magazine, and I want to talk about that first. But also,

there's an article that you wrote in last month in December 2022 on this guy, René Girard,

who I've been hearing a lot about in my world, a lot of people who I know have been mentioning Gerard in the last couple of years, and I didn't understand why, because I had never

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