by Michael Rectenwald Before the polls opened, it was almost certain that the election wouldn’t end Tuesday night. The ground has been seeded for extended ballot counting, legal battles, and renewed violence that could extend for days, if not weeks. Coming after months of violence in cities ...Read More...

by Michael Rectenwald Trump scored a decisive win in the final debate, as Biden, although lobbed softballs, teetered. The former VP rested his case on “character,” despite recent exposures of a global influence-peddling scheme undertaken in his name. In the second and last 2020 presidential ...Read More...

by Michael Rectenwald It seems that the woke world uses Orwell’s 1984 as an instruction manual, as it changes word uses and meanings by the day. Now the phrase ‘sexual preference’ is out – despite its use by a leading LGBTQ magazine only weeks ago. The list of words and phrases deemed verboten ...Read More...

by Michael Rectenwald Why do giant corporations and billionaires fund Black Lives Matter and Antifa, both avowed socialist groups? And why do the leftists accept their aid? They both want a kind of socialism, but only one of them could get their way. If you’re at all familiar with the corporate and billionaire funding ...Read More...

by Michael Rectenwald Nearly two thirds of Americans believe the US is on course for civil war. One third now support political violence. The first Civil War’s death toll won’t be beaten, but the second’s nation-destroying potential will be unequalled. The American left and right no longer ...Read More...

by Michael Rectenwald Reading the news, one might come to believe that US higher education has devolved into nothing more than a “social justice” indoctrination camp and that any deviation from the orthodoxy is impermissible. And one would be right. The American academy, once deemed “the ...Read More...

by Michael Rectenwald Reading the news, one might come to believe that US higher education has devolved into nothing more than a “social justice” indoctrination camp and that any deviation from the orthodoxy is impermissible. And one would be right. The American academy, once deemed “the envy ...Read More...

by Michael Rectenwald After scholars decried English as ‘anti-black linguistic racism,’ the nation’s leading academic language association acceded to the demand that black students no longer have to think about proper English, let alone use it. The Conference on College Composition and Communication ...Read More...

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by Michael Rectenwald The term "woke capitalism" was coined by New York Times token conservative commentator Ross Douthat and refers to a burgeoning wave of companies that apparently have become advocates of "social justice." Many major corporations, not to mention billionaire individuals, intervene ...Read More...

Delivered August 10, 2020, at the America, The Truth Online Conference. by Michael Rectenwald Hello, I’d like to thank to John Michael Chambers for inviting me to give this talk. I’d like mention that I’ve just finished a new book entitled The Thought Criminal, due out soon.  Today, I hope ...Read More...

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...