At Unregistered Academy, we are announcing right now our new slate of winter courses.

Starting this week, as part of our great book series, we have Aristotle's Politics.

Then, soon after that, we will start the history of the Cold War,

and that will be followed by our next great books course, The Bible.

Go to unregisteredacademy.com and sign up now.

I'll 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 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.

My guest this week has the weird idea that art creates humanity, but I think he might be right. This is my interview with J.F. Martel.

I am joined from Ottawa in this place called Canada by J.F. Martel, who is a very brilliant man who has written a very brilliant book, although you did originally call it a manifesto,

did you not? I didn't want to call it a manifesto, did you not?

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