by Michael Rectenwald I'll be delivering a presentation entitled "Totalitarianism with Communist Characteristics, Corporate Socialism, and 'Woke' Capitalism" today at The Free Enterprise Institute, Hankamer School of Business, Foster Building, Room 250, Baylor Univ. 1311 S 5th St, Waco, TX 76706, 5:15 ...Read More...

by Michael Rectenwald When Vince Vaughn uttered a few sentences then shook Trump’s hand at a championship college football game, a woke member of the crowd recorded the transgression and tried to cancel the Wedding Crasher’s career with a tweet. On Monday night, Hollywood star Vince Vaughn ...Read More...

by Michael Rectenwald Donald Trump’s response to the Iranian missile attack on US military bases in Iraq is defying the expectations (and perhaps the hopes) of both Democratic and Republican neocon hawks. After he ordered the drone strike that killed Iran’s “second-most popular” leader, General ...Read More...

by Michael Rectenwald Angela Davis and Lorgia García Peña The US university is learning the hard way that the more concessions are given, the more are demanded, as its own proudly-advertised ‘affirmative action’ students are now trying to dictate which professors it should employ. Lorgia ...Read More...

by Michael Rectenwald By now you may have heard of the term “self-partnering.” It’s a recent addition to the burgeoning lexicon of identity categories. Contrary to its vocal advocates, the coinage is a euphemism at best – for “lonely as hell.” Self-partnering made its international debut ...Read More...

by Michael Rectenwald In Fall 2016, as Campus Reform reported at the time, the University of Michigan instituted a policy allowing students a carte blanche pronoun preference opportunity.  Students were encouraged by the university administration to choose existing pronouns or to create new ...Read More...

Peter Svab writes in the Epoch Times: Public schools are increasingly spending taxpayer money on programs that push quasi-Marxist ideology on their students. School districts across the nation have spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on programs such as Deep Equity, Youth Equity Stewardship ...Read More...

by Michael Rectenwald Recent attempts to address bias and stereotypes – including bias training in the workplace, bias reporting hotlines on campuses, and warnings about bias and racism in movies – are not only ineffective, they make matters worse. Bias training creates workplace tensions ...Read More...

by Michael Rectenwald Chick-Fil-A committed a grave error by ending donations to Christian groups dubbed “anti-LGBTQ” – not because the LGBTQ community “wins,” but because religious and other expression effectively loses. Chick-Fil-A announced on Monday that it would reconfigure their donations ...Read More...

by Michael Rectenwald Why have the biggest and most profitable American corporations embraced leftist politics, as seen in their woke advertising and social justice activism? Hint: It’s not because they’ve become non-profits and taken up philanthropy. Judging by the Ted Talks of woke American ...Read More...

by Michael Rectenwald What’s wrong with the American left? Suffering from Trump anxiety disorder, acting like cult members, and engaging in a new McCarthyism, the left has lost its collective mind. I saw it coming and left the left in the nick of time. My break with the left began in the fall ...Read More...

by Michael Rectenwald In June, whistleblower Zach Vorhies dumped internal Google documents exposing the company’s shady practices and political agenda. Rather than investigate, US lawmakers are offering Big Tech political cover and a legislative decoy. Internal documents and secret recordings ...Read More...

by Michael Rectenwald Senator Joseph McCarthy You write: "It doesn’t include mainstream libertarians, moderate Republicans, or philosophical conservatives, although there is a compelling argument to be made that white nationalists have hi-jacked the GOP. All included are public figures and/or ...Read More...

  Michael Rectenwald, author of the bestselling Springtime for Snowflakes:Social Justice and its Postmodern Parentage and the forthcoming Google Archipelago, both published by New English Review Press, will be on Fox & Friends Saturday, March 30, at 8:50 EST.  Be sure to catch him discussing academia ...Read More...

by Michael Rectenwald I first discovered Milo Yiannopolous when I was still a leftist. Unlike many of my friends on the left, who dismissed him as an “a**hole,” or a “jerk,” I found him to be smart, funny and often insightful. I thought he made some great points as he poked fun at the identity ...Read More...