From Guns and Butter: Michael Rectenwald's, What Is The Great Reset, a series in five-parts, is discussed, as well as books by World Economic Forum Founder and Executive Chairman, Klaus Schwab, including "The Fourth Industrial Revolution" and "Covid-19: The Great Reset"; technological changes ...Read More...

by Michael Rectenwald In the fall of 2016, I was a left communist. As I will show below, I came to this position after a circuitous tour through numerous sects of Marxism. A year later, I had thoroughly renounced Marxism and embraced the views of free market economists and philosophers Ludwig ...Read More...

by Michael Rectenwald In a previous installment, I pointed out that in On Liberty, John Stuart Mill advocated for minority opinion to be specially “encouraged and countenanced,”1 and thus that Mill was not an absolute free market thinker where opinion is concerned. Mill suggested that minority ...Read More...

The Anti-PC Professor, Michael Rectenwald, comes to The P.A.S. Report Podcast to discuss the new woke totalitarianism engulfing our society. Dr. Rectenwald was one of the first to do battle with the woke mobs, and he is on the front lines. We discuss how wokism has infected nearly every government institution, ...Read More...

by Michael Rectenwald When justifying the airing of opinion, particularly of unpopular opinion, interlocutors have often pointed to John Stuart Mill’s On Liberty for support. Mill’s classical liberal tome is regarded as one of the greatest defenses of individuality, free thought, and free speech ...Read More...

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by Michael Rectenwald (Delivered at the Libertarian Party Mises Caucus Take Human Action Bash, May 15, 2021) The most pressing matter facing advocates of liberty today is the prospect of the political and economic establishment completing the institution of a totalitarian state. There is no ...Read More...

by Michael Rectenwald Instead of approaching the free market abstractly, in this short series, I’ll approach it from the standpoint of my own experience. In short, I’ll treat the free market in an autoethnographic account. Autoethnography is just what the word suggests: it is a genre of ethnographic ...Read More...

by Michael Rectenwald The usual criticisms of critical race theory (CRT) have become patent and cliché by now. CRT essentializes race and those within races, figuring all white people as racist and all black people oppressed. It treats people not as individuals with individual motives and goals ...Read More...

by Michael Rectenwald Perhaps the most pressing matter today for advocates of freedom is the prospect of the Left completing the institution of a totalitarian state. There is no other way to read the multiprong approach and the political maneuverings that political operatives are taking to rule ...Read More...

by Michael Rectenwald Several months ago, I debated Thaddeus Russell on The Tom Woods Show. The proposition debated was “Postmodern philosophy is compatible with a politics of individual liberty.” Thaddeus defended the proposition and I opposed it. Here, I want to flesh out some of the points ...Read More...

by Michael Rectenwald To date, no major political party in the United States has issued a coherent, principled policy on immigration. Without a principled policy, political jockeying has been the rule of the day. The Libertarian Party advocates a veritable open border policy on the grounds ...Read More...

by Michael Rectenwald Welcome to my city - or should I say, "our city." I don't own anything. I don't own a car. I don't own a house. I don't own any appliances or any clothes. It might seem odd to you, but it makes perfect sense for us in this city. Everything you considered a product, has ...Read More...

by Michael Rectenwald I have been quite explicit that what we are now dealing with under the covid response, woke ideology, cancel culture, Big Tech censorship, nonstop media propaganda and gaslighting, an armed and barricaded capitol, a Democratic-controlled government set on giving away money ...Read More...

by Michael Rectenwald The former employee's battle against the Massachusetts based school is a sign of the times and, hopefully, of things to come. It’s long past time this pernicious ideology got the scrutiny and repudiation it so richly deserves. After over a year of combating Critical Race ...Read More...