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Michael Rectenwald

Michael Rectenwald is the author of eleven books, including Thought Criminal (2020), Beyond Woke (2020), Google Archipelago (2019), Springtime for Snowflakes (2018), Nineteenth-Century British Secularism (2016), and others. He was a professor at NYU from 2008 to 2019. He is a pundit and champion of free speech against all forms of authoritarianism and totalitarianism, including socialism-communism, “social justice,” fascism, and political correctness.

The notorious @TheAntiPCProf on Twitter, Professor Rectenwald has appeared on numerous major network political and other talk shows (Tucker Carlson TonightFox & FriendsFox & Friends FirstVarney & CompanyThe Glenn Beck Show), on syndicated radio shows (Glenn Beck and many others), and YouTube shows and podcasts (see Media).

His academic and scholarly essays have appeared in the Quarterly Journal of Austrian EconomicsAcademic QuestionsEndeavour, the British Journal for the History of ScienceCollege Composition and CommunicationInternational Philosophical Quarterly, the De Gruyter anthologies (Organized Secularism in the United States), and others.

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The Backstory of the Great Reset, or How to Destroy Classical Liberalism

DemocracyEconomic FreedomStrategy

Blog05/28/2022

The Great Reset usually is framed as the reestablishment of democratic social principles. In reality, it's an attempt to do away with the last vestiges of classical liberalism.

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Elon Musk versus the Woke Cartel

Bureaucracy and RegulationProgressivism

Blog05/27/2022

Because of Elon Musk's attempt to take over Twitter, Tesla has been removed from the S&P's ESG Index, an action that exposes ESG for what it really is: a woke cartel.

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The Great Reset VII: Capitalism for the Rich and Socialism for the Poor

Cronyism and CorporatismGlobal EconomyPolitical Theory

04/27/2022Mises Media
Michael Rectenwald takes on the progressive canard of "socialism for the rich, capitalism for the poor," in which the government protects the wealthy but throws everyone else to the tender mercies of rapacious capitalism.
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Elon Musk's Twitter Gambit and What It Means to the "Clique in Power"

Cronyism and Corporatism

Blog04/26/2022

Contrary to what progressives may claim, Twitter has not been the "town hall for democracy," but rather an enforcer for "wokeness, political fealty, and obedience to official state dictates and narratives."

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Do Conspiracies Really Exist? Murray Rothbard Thought So

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04/26/2022Mises Media
The quickest way to discredit an intellectual opponent is to accuse that person of being a "conspiracy theorist." But what happens when real conspiracies occur?
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