Unregistered 137: Stephen Wertheim

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🗓️ 26 October 2020

⏱️ 133 minutes

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Stephen Wertheim, a fellow U.S. history PhD from Columbia and a director of the anti-war Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, engaged me in a wonderful debate over the history of American imperialism and the pivotal era of World War II, when American policymakers secretly laid the plans for the United States to emerge from the … Continue reading →

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0:00.0	So I have finally put together my dream team renegade university webinar.
0:05.0	It's called Talkin' Shit, the History of African American Culture.
0:10.0	And it will be co-taught by me and Kamasi Hill.
0:15.0	Many of you know Kamasi as a guest on unregistered,
0:18.0	but you may not know that Kamasi has a PhD in African-American religion
0:23.5	and culture from Northwestern University. He was born and raised in Detroit to a black nationalist
0:30.2	family. He attended Howard University. And as you will see, his intellectual chops are inferior to no one's.
0:40.6	Also, as a special guest celebrity student, although he wanted to take this course,
0:48.3	in fact, he asked me to design this course for him, and so I did,
0:52.5	we will have the great, and again, another unregistered
0:56.6	guest, Hotep Jesus, who will bring a lot of energy and fire and a tremendous intellectual
1:04.6	curiosity. This guy reads books about history for fun, something even I don't do. Kamasi and I and Hoteb Jesus are going to have a great time,
1:15.6	and there are already many people signing up for this course.
1:18.6	It begins on November 3rd.
1:21.6	That's a Tuesday. It'll meet every Tuesday in November.
1:25.6	We have, I think, it's only 10 or 11 days before it begins.
1:30.3	So get your tickets now before it fills up.
1:34.3	This is going to be a kind of course on African American history and culture
1:38.3	that you will never find at any other university.
1:42.3	And we guarantee you and we guarantee you.
1:44.7	We guarantee you that after having taken this course,
1:48.6	you will be able to win arguments with anybody
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