Thaddeus Russell

My new book is out today. Sixteen years after A Renegade History of the United States, I'm taking the story around the world. Savior and Seducer tells the story of two Americas: one that sought to conquer and remake the world, and another that liberated people through music, movies, sex, and pleasure. Get your copy: amazon.com/dp/0802128211

During World War II, an anthropologist working with the federal government instructed Americans that opposition to racism was a defining national virtue—and a reason to go to war. thaddeusrussell.substack.com…

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Unreported 216: Elections in Brazil, Israel, Serbia, and more teapawt.org/i/broadcasts/1qKVmydgR…

Tonight on UNREPORTED: • Lula wins, Bolsonaro flees to U.S. • Netanyahu’s party cries fraud • Student List wins in Serbia • Bukele sends 1,000 troops to Haiti 7:30 PM ET Livestream on YouTube, Rumble and X youtube.com/live/yehRQ_uke5Y

American popular culture—from blackface vaudeville to jazz, Hollywood, and hip-hop—has done more to liberate people living under dictatorships than the 82nd Airborne ever could. Lit Hub just published an excerpt from my new book, SAVIOR AND SEDUCER: lithub.com/holiness-and-hedo…

Hitler had neither the intention nor the military capacity to conquer America. So why are we still told that WWII saved us from Nazi rule? And what did American intervention mean for Europe’s Jews? My new essay: thaddeusrussell.substack.com…

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Unreported 215: Slotkin Plots, Russia Ukraine Negotiations, Riots Continue, and more teapawt.org/i/broadcasts/1mGPaZoEb…

Tonight on UNREPORTED: • Savior & Seducer published • Sen. Elissa Slotkin threatens to prosecute Trump officials • Riots spread from France to Italy and Belgium 7:15 PM ET Livestream on YouTube, Rumble and X youtube.com/live/XIVMVicAjPk

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Unreported 214: Nidal Hasan Execution, Ilhan Omar Raid, Riots Expand, AI Cruelty Ban, and more teapawt.org/i/broadcasts/1MJgNbLnN…

Tonight—at 7:30 ET—on UNREPORTED: • Firing-squad execution to be livestreamed • AI bots trained in woke and welfare ethics • Austerity at root of France riots • Ilhan Omar raided • Michael Tracey vs. the mob 7:30 PM ET Livestream on YouTube, Rumble and X youtube.com/live/bI_pY0GRF7w…

Why does the left blame capitalism for America's wars when capitalists have opposed every one of them? thaddeusrussell.substack.com…

The catastrophe that is now being described as the inevitable consequence of AI was imagined more than 160 years ago, when the most forward technology was the steam engine. thaddeusrussell.substack.com…

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Unreported 213: Brazil Elections, Riots in France, RAF Fairford, and more teapawt.org/i/broadcasts/1rGmqpEOw…

Tonight on UNREPORTED: • Most Americans fear AI • Flavio Bolsonaro wins first round of presidential election in Brazil • Riots erupt across France • US withdraws 12 bombers from UK base 7:00 PM ET Livestream on YouTube, Rumble and X youtube.com/live/Xo0sFjpirN0