Chuck Ellis sits down with Ryan Tuttle, a psychology lecturer at the University of Southern Maine, former Jehovah’s Witness minister, and self-described “unconventional Republican.”
Ryan shares his journey from a high-control religious upbringing where politics, holidays and the Pledge of Allegiance were off-limits, to atheism, to supporting free speech and conservative student groups on a progressive campus. They talk about leaving the faith and rebuilding his life, the academic echo chamber, and refusing to bow to social pressure.
