John Glaser is director of foreign policy studies at the Cato Institute. He is the co-author, with Christopher A. Preble and A. Trevor Thrall, of the forthcoming Fuel to the Fire: How Trump Made America’s Broken Foreign Policy Even Worse (and How We Can Recover).
Episode 80: Kmele Foster at Renegade University
Kmele Foster is the former co-host of The Independents, the co-founder and lead producer of FreeThink Media, the host of my second-favorite podcast, The Fifth Column, and one of the most original and important public intellectuals you will hear. This episode was recorded at the Renegade University Weekend in Washington D.C.
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Episode 79: Elizabeth Nolan Brown
Elizabeth Nolan Brown is an associate editor at Reason magazine. She has won multiple awards for her writing on government wars on sex.
Episode 78: Daniele Bolelli at Renegade University
Daniele Bolelli is the host of the History on Fire podcast. This episode was recorded at the Renegade University Weekend in Los Angeles. For information and to purchase tickets for the upcoming Renegade University Weekend in Washington, DC, with special guest Kmele Foster, click here:
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Episode 77: Jon Gabriel
Jon Gabriel is the Editor-in-Chief of Ricochet and co-host of The Conservatarians podcast. Until 2012, he served as Director of Marketing for the free-market Goldwater Institute. He is a former submarine reactor operator for the U.S. Navy.
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Episode 76: Lily Forester
Three years ago Lily Forester fled the United States for Mexico with her partner, John Galton, to escape long-term prison sentences for the production and sale of cannabis. On February 1, John was murdered at their homestead on the outskirts of Acapulco. This is Lily’s first interview since John’s death.
Episode 75: Joe
Joe has been a cannabis farmer in Humboldt County, California since 1999. Like many Humboldt growers who operated for years illegally, he is struggling to survive the government’s attempts to rid the newly legal and increasingly corporate industry of people like him.
Mentioned in this episode:
Netflix crime documentary, Murder Mountain
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Episode 74: Katie Herzog
Katie Herzog is a staff writer at Seattle’s bi-weekly, The Stranger. Her work has been featured on Salon, The Guardian, Vox, Buzzfeed, Fusion, Mother Jones, High Times, and she is a former staff writer at Grist.
Katie’s Twitter: @kittypurrzog
Mentioned in this episode:
Some We Love, Some We Hate, Some We Eat: Why It's So Hard to Think Straight About Animals, by Hal Herzog
States of Injury, by Wendy Brown
Galileo's Middle Finger: Heretics, Activists, and One Scholar's Search for Justice, by Alice Dreger
So You've Been Publicly Shamed, by Jon Ronson
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Episode 73: Ask Me Anything
In our second "Ask Me Anything" episode I answer questions from Renegade University students and members of the Unregistered Underground supporting listeners group. The topics range from sex-positive feminism to the future of higher education to the renegade history of the world. To join the Unregistered Underground so you can participate in our AMAs, go to UnregisteredUnderground.com
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Mentioned in This episode:
Ugetsu Monogatari (film)
The Feminine Mystique, by Betty Friedan
Stanley Aronowitz (wiki)
Black Silent Majority: The Rockefeller Drug Laws and the Politics of Punishment, by Michael Javen Fortner
Episode 72: Debate with Ken "Popehat" White
I recently participated in a debate with Ken White, a First Amendment and criminal defense attorney and author at the legal blog Popehat, on the question of freedom of speech on social media platforms.
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Episode 71: Julien Nitzberg
Julien Nitzberg is a screenwriter, stage writer, lyricist, theater director and film director best known as the director of the documentary The Wild and Wonderful Whites of West Virginia. He also wrote the book and lyrics and directed the musical The Beastly Bombing or A Terrible Tale of Terrorists Tamed by the Tangles of True Love, which won the LA Weekly Theater Award for Best Musical of the Year.
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Mentioned in This Episode:
The Wild and Wonderful Whites of West Virginia, Directed by Julien Nitzberg
“THE FEW, THE PROUD,” by Julien Nitzberg
Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940, by George Chauncey
Mattachine Society (wiki)
Baron von Steuben (wiki)
Roky Erickson (wiki)
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Episode 70: Cathy Reisenwitz
Cathy Reisenwitz is host of the Does It Work? show from Biomarker Labs and the author of the Unintended Consequences column for the Bay City Beacon. Her writing has appeared in Reason, The Week, Forbes, the Chicago Tribune, The Daily Beast, and VICE Motherboard.
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Mentioned in This Episode:
The Feminine Mystique, Betty Friedan
The End of Men: And the Rise of Women, by Hanin Rosen
Ellen Willis (wiki)
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Episode 69: Daniel Coffeen
Daniel Coffeen holds a PhD in Rhetoric from the University of California at Berkeley and is the author of Reading the Way of Things: Towards a New Technology of Making Sense. His lectures on the history of philosophy and rhetoric were legendary among undergraduates at UC Berkeley and are now available on iTunes. He now works as a branding consultant for startups and established companies in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Mentioned in This Episode:
“Models of Living,” by Daniel Coffeen
“An Emphatic Umph,” by Daniel Coffeen
1985 MOVE Bombing (wiki)
Renaissance Clothing and the Materials of Memory, by Peter Stallybrass and Ann Rosalind Jones
The Politics and Poetics of Transgression, by Peter Stallybrass and Allon White
Abbie Hoffman (wiki)
Speed and Politics: An Essay on Dromology, by Paul Virilio
“The Vision Machine,” by Paul Virilio
Family, Sex and Marriage in England 1500-1800, Lawrence Stone
Judith Butler (wiki)
States of Injury, by Wendy Brown
Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity, by Judith Butler
Gadamer–Derrida debate (wiki)
What Is Philosophy?, by Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari
Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia, by Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari (Introduction by Michel Foucault)
Difference and Repetition, by Gilles Deleuze
The Cultural Contradictions Of Capitalism, by Daniel Bell
Eros and Civilization : A Philosophical Inquiry into Freud, by Herbert Marcuse
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Episode 68: Keith Whittington
Keith Whittington is the William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Politics at Princeton University. He is a fellow in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. His work on American constitutional law, theory and politics, federalism, judicial politics, and the presidency has been published widely, and he is the author of many books. His most recent book, Speak Freely: Why Universities Must Defend Free Speech, which is the subject of our conversation.
Mentioned in This Episode:
W. E. B. Du Bois (wiki)
John Stuart Mill (wiki)
Emer de Vattel (wiki)
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Episode 67: Maggie McNeill & Mistress Matisse
Maggie McNeill and Mistress Matisse are two of the most prominent leaders of the emergent sex-worker rights movement. Maggie McNeill is the author of the indispensable Honest Courtesan blog, and Mistress Matisse is a former columnist for the Seattle-based alternative newspaper The Stranger and is the creator of Velvet Swing, a cannabis-infused sex lube.
Mentioned in This Episode:
“Larkin and Lacey Speak Out – What Happened To Joe Arpaio,” by Gemma Cottrell
Tom Dart (wiki)
FOSTA-SESTA Laws (wiki)
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Episode 66: Daniel Bessner
Daniel Bessner is the Anne H. H. and Kenneth B. Pyle Assistant Professor in American Foreign Policy in the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies at the University of Washington and the author of Democracy in Exile: Hans Speier and the Rise of the Defense Intellectual.
Mentioned in This Episode:
Rand Corporation (wiki)
Hans Speier (wiki)
RAND in Southeast Asia: A History of the Vietnam War Era, by Mai Elliott
Hitler's Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust, by Daniel Goldhagen
Political Theology: Four Chapters on the Concept of Sovereignty, by Carl Schmidt
The Wages of Destruction: The Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy, by Adam Tooze
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Episode 65: Conner Habib
Conner Habib has performed in nearly 200 gay adult films. But he also founded a punk rock record label, studied organismic and evolutionary biology and creative writing in graduate school, taught college English courses, worked as a sex workers' rights activist, and published essays in dozens of print and online publications, including The Stranger, Vice, Salon, and Slate. He hosts the web series Against Everyone with Conner Habib, featuring lectures and conversations about sex, the occult, and philosophy.
Mentioned in This Episode:
Wilhelm Reich (wiki)
What Do Women Want?: Adventures in the Science of Female Desire, by Daniel Bergner
The Trauma Myth: The Truth About the Sexual Abuse of Children--and Its Aftermath, by Susan Clancy
“Amber Hollibaugh and Edward Carpenter on Letting Go of Sexual Shame,” by Conner Habib
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Episode 64: Michael Brooks
Michael Brooks is the host of The Michael Brooks Show and the co-host of Majority Report with Sam Seder.
Mentioned in This Episode:
Connor Kilpatrick (Jacobin Archive)
Accelerationism (wiki)
Slavoj Žižek (wiki)
“Sam Harris’s Quantum Universe (or, How to Say One Thing While Meaning Another),” by Marek Sullivan
Asma Jahangir (wiki)
The Evolution of God, by Robert Wright
Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, by Steve Coll
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Episode 63: Joshua Childress
Joshua Childress recently resigned in protest from the U.S. Border Patrol. He previously served in the U.S. Army and National Guard, doing tours in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Mentioned in This Episode:
- The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, by Carson McCullers
- The Devil's Highway: A True Story, by Luis Alberto Urrea
- School Sucks podcast
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Episode 62: Emily Horowitz
Emily Horowitz is a professor of sociology and criminal justice at St. Francis College (Brooklyn, NY). She also directs the Institute for Peace and Justice, and founded and co-directs the post-prison college program. She is the author of Protecting Our Kids? How Sex Offender Laws Are Failing Us.
Mentioned in This Episode:
- "Should We Abolish the Sex Offender Registry?" Soho Forum Debate
- Unregistered Episode 17: David Feige
- Sex Offender Registry in the United States (wiki)
- Debbie Nathan (wiki)
- Untouchable, Film by David Feige
- Alliance for Constitutional Sex Offense Laws
- Women Against Registry
- Texas Voices
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