Beginning in October at Unregistered Academy, I will be teaching a four-part live course on the life and ideas of Michelle Foucault, the most influential intellectual of my lifetime.

Go to Unregisteredacademy.com to learn more and to enroll.

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 schoolte, 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.

What is this thing called wokeokeness and when did it begin?

Is it a recent cultural phenomenon that arose spontaneously?

Or, as my guest this week argues, was it planned out, deliberate, and put into law more than 50 years ago?

This is my interview with Richard Hanani.

I am joined from Los Angeles by Richard Hanania.

Is that correct?

Yeah, that's correct. Good enough. Hanani

Good enough. Close enough. And by the way, what is the origin of that name? I am a palest,

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