What does it take to be so based that you stand firm for what you believe in and Face contemporary radical leftism by challenging it's entire normative enforced by Academia, Corporations and mainstream media?
What makes the "thought Criminal" the last line of defence against institutionalized insanity a free society has?
These are some of the topics we will be discussing with Michael Rectenwald.
You can find out more about his work here:
www.michaelrectenwald.com
Michaels Books are a mandatory read if you want to understand the totalitarian tendencies of the contemporary left and you can find them here:
https://www.michaelrectenwald.com/books
Michael Rectenwald is a former NYU Professor and the author of ten books, including his most recent, Beyond Woke. His novel, The Thought Criminal, is due out on December 1st.
Other books include Beyond Woke (May 2020); Google Archipelago: The Digital Gulag and the Simulation of Freedom (Sept. 2019); Springtime for Snowflakes: "Social Justice" and Its Postmodern Parentage (an academic's memoir, 2018); Nineteenth-Century British Secularism: Science, Religion and Literature (2016); Academic Writing, Real World Topics (2015, Concise Edition 2016); Global Secularisms in a Post-Secular Age (2015); Breach (Collected Poems, 2013); The Thief and Other Stories (2013); and The Eros of the Baby-Boom Eras (1991) (see the Books page).
Michael was a Professor of Liberal Studies and Global Liberal Studies at NYU from 2008 to 2019. He also taught at Duke University, North Carolina Central University, Carnegie Mellon University, and Case Western Reserve University. His scholarly and academic 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 Global Secularisms in a Post-Secular Age, and the Cambridge University Press anthology George Eliot in Context, among others (see the Essays and Presentations page). He holds a PhD in Literary and Cultural Studies from Carnegie Mellon University, a Master's in English Literature from Case Western Reserve University, and a B.A. in English Literature from the University of Pittsburgh (see his C.V. for more detail).
Michael's writing for general audiences has appeared in RT.com, Campus Reform, The New English Review, The International Business Times, American Conservative, Quillette, The Washington Post, The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, and others (see the Essays and Presentations page).
Professor Rectenwald is a pundit and champion of free speech and opposes all forms of authoritarianism and totalitarianism, including socialism-communism, "social justice," fascism, and P.C. The notorious @antipcnyuprof (now @TheAntiPCProf), he has appeared on numerous major network political talk shows (Tucker Carlson Tonight, Fox & Friends, Fox & Friends First, The O'Reilly Factor, Varney & Company, The Glenn Beck Show), on syndicated radio shows (Glenn Beck and many others), and numerous YouTube shows and podcasts (see "Interviews" on the Media page).
