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 Tonight, Fox & Friends, Fox & Friends First, Varney & Company, The 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 Economics, Academic Questions, Endeavour, the British Journal for the History of Science, College Composition and Communication, International Philosophical Quarterly, the De Gruyter anthologies (Organized Secularism in the United States), and others.

Articles

Kamala Harris’s Price-Fixing Scheme Would Lead to Food Shortages

10/18/2024 Mises Wire Michael Rectenwald

Kamala Harris has suggested that, if elected, her administration would “pass the first ever federal ban on price gouging on food.” She has also stated that she would undertake several interventions...

The EU and the Globalist Censorship of Speech on X

08/15/2024 Mises Wire Michael Rectenwald

As I argued in October of 2022, Elon Musk’s takeover of Twitter (now X) would represent an important test case for the freedom of speech on social media against the globalist, woke, and totalitarian...

The Immigration Crisis: Crossing the Border to Insanity

07/12/2024 Mises Wire Michael Rectenwald

Let me begin by stating that I recognize national borders as arbitrary perimeters drawn by and around nation-states. I have no love for the state. In fact, the state should be abolished. I have...

Media

Kamala Harris’s Price-Fixing Scheme Would Lead to Food Shortages

11/19/2024 Michael Rectenwald

Kamala Harris claims that she simply wants food prices to be lower. However, her de facto price fixing scheme would create food shortages and raise the real price of food. Of course, when that happens, Harris simply will blame capitalism.

COP28: Climate Catastrophism Wins as the World Loses

12/26/2023 Michael Rectenwald

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.

Statist Ideology and War: Israel versus Hamas

11/29/2023 Michael Rectenwald

As this author previously has noted, the ideology of statism is responsible for much of the violence that plagues the world. We see this played out in Israel's aggressive retaliatory attacks in Gaza in response to the October 7 killings by Hamas.