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Michael Rectenwald

Michael Rectenwald is the author of twelve books, including The Great Reset and the Struggle for Liberty (2022), Thought Criminal (2020), Beyond Woke (2020), Google Archipelago (2019), Springtime for Snowflakes (2018), and Nineteenth-Century British Secularism (2016). 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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Claudine Gay, DEI, and the War in the Middle East

PoliticsProgressivismU.S. History

Blog01/06/2024

Claudine Gay's unceremonious exit from the Harvard University presidency ultimately was not due to her plagiarism issues, but rather because of her disastrous appearance at a congressional hearing on Israel and Hamas.

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COP28: Climate Catastrophism Wins as the World Loses

Bureaucracy and RegulationThe EnvironmentSocialismWorld History

12/26/2023Mises Media
World elites gathered in yet another attempt to remake the world in a different image, with so-called climate change invoked as the catalyst for the meeting. As one can imagine, their "good" society is not very good for those who are not elites.
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X Marks the Spot: Social Media’s Last Stand

Bureaucracy and RegulationMedia and CulturePoliticsThe Police State

Blog12/19/2023

The European Union's latest moves against Elon Musk and X are a last gasp in the attempt to control speech and free inquiry on the Internet. If the EU is successful, the consequences will not be limited to Europe.

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COP28: Climate Catastrophism Wins as the World Loses

Bureaucracy and RegulationThe EnvironmentSocialismWar and Foreign Policy

Blog12/16/2023

World elites gathered in yet another attempt to remake the world in a different image, with so-called climate change invoked as the catalyst for the meeting. As one can imagine, their "good" society is not very good for those who are not elites.

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COP28: Scandal on Top of Fabrication

Bureaucracy and RegulationThe EnvironmentProgressivismSocialism

Blog12/09/2023

As climate activists gather this coming week in Abu Dhabi, there is trouble in climate paradise. Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber, the meeting's host, is not on the same page with the Climate Apocalyptics, which, of course, gives him the dreaded moniker of “climate denier.”

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