Renegade University, Renegade History

Thaddeus Russell is the best historian in the United States and quite possibly the world.

Unabashed, undeterred, Russell challenges the often just plain wrong history fed to us from cognizance to death.

Case in point: Find an American who even fathoms the legitimacy of American involvement in World War II. Spoiler: you will fail. And yet there’s Thad reading and critiquing the breath of work on the war, especially work done outside of the United States, wherein the war is still considered “sacred”.

I wonder if Thad went about it in another way; namely how I do in my classes, how there is no way to conclude that the United States won that war. Would that approach make people more or indeed less willing to assess the arguments?

No matter. The material and analyses of the videos on Renegade University and Thad’s Unregistered Podcast achieve his stated intent of pushing the boundaries of what can be said or believed in modern society.

I cannot recommend his work highly enough.

*Thad has found himself hanging around more and more libertarians and an-caps, but he’s avoiding the label like the plague. Ok, whatever. But he and we are achieving the same end–an awakening from the inane, blissful ignorance that no one, inside or out of the echo chamber, truly enjoys.