Here are the Blogs in the Michael Rechtenwald category.
Friday, 26 February 2021
Posted on 02/26/2021 10:20 AM by Michael Rectenwald
Monday, 22 February 2021

by Michael Rectenwald
The Great Reset is on everyone’s mind – or should be. It can be blamed for woke madness, cancel culture, Covid lockdowns, Antifa/BLM riots, Big Tech censorship, and the endless propaganda coming out of mainstream media.
There’s a Tibetan Buddhist practice called “lojong” (mind-training) ...Read More...
Posted on 02/22/2021 3:57 AM by Michael Rectenwald
Wednesday, 17 February 2021

by Michael Rectenwald
An appallingly biased new article on Trumpism in Foreign Affairs shows that if the American establishment was an individual, it would be diagnosed as clinically insane, likely suffering from delusions of persecution and paranoia.
Yet this same establishment calls half ...Read More...
Posted on 02/17/2021 4:43 AM by Michael Rectenwald
Saturday, 13 February 2021

by Michael Rectenwald
An appallingly biased new article on Trumpism in Foreign Affairs shows that if the American establishment was an individual, it would be diagnosed as clinically insane, likely suffering from delusions of persecution and paranoia.
Yet this same establishment calls half ...Read More...
Posted on 02/13/2021 4:11 AM by Michael Rectenwald
Friday, 12 February 2021

by Michael Rectenwald
Calls for reparations to blacks in America are based on the notion of collective white guilt. But collective guilt is a false notion and would violate the property rights of those whose ancestors gained nothing from slavery.
Now that the Democratic Party has control of ...Read More...
Posted on 02/12/2021 4:47 AM by Michael Rectenwald
Thursday, 4 February 2021

by Michael Rectenwald
While 2020 may be remembered as the year Orwell turned over in his grave – and also the year deemed the perfect "match" for Satan – 2021 might well be remembered for the year Alfred Nobel did back flips in his.
The Nobel Peace Prize has often generated controversy over ...Read More...
Posted on 02/04/2021 6:21 AM by Michael Rectenwald
Friday, 22 January 2021

by Michael Rectenwald
On a cold, dark, winter day, Joe Biden spoke to a small crowd after being sworn in as the 46th President of the United States of America. The euphemisms of his inaugural speech are lost on a great number of Americans.
With several references to the Capitol breach two ...Read More...
Posted on 01/22/2021 4:45 AM by Michael Rectenwald
Saturday, 16 January 2021

by Michael Rectenwald
Both Democrats and Republicans think America is disintegrating. But the newspeak narrative says that Trump and his supporters must be cleansed from the nation before it can heal. This totalitarian mindset could be the US’ undoing.
A recent Axios-Ipsos poll suggests that ...Read More...
Posted on 01/16/2021 6:39 AM by Michael Rectenwald
Monday, 11 January 2021

by Michael Rectenwald
President Trump is being vilified for events in Washington on January 6 and his future is unclear. But with a massive base of followers to call on, he can still play a hugely influential role in US politics – if he wants to.
Clearly, the word ‘tensions’ fails to describe ...Read More...
Posted on 01/11/2021 7:35 AM by Michael Rectenwald
Thursday, 7 January 2021

by Michael Rectenwald
Compounded with the exorbitant real estate prices, gouging tax rates, and a prohibitive cost of living, the draconian Covid-19 restrictions have made Californication all but untenable.
2020 has brought an unprecedented exodus from California, once a preferred destination ...Read More...
Posted on 01/07/2021 4:38 AM by Michael Rectenwald
Friday, 1 January 2021

by Michael Rectenwald
The title of this essay represents a play on the Chinese Communist Party’s description of its economy. Several decades ago, when China’s growing reliance on the for-profit sectors of its economy could no longer be credibly denied by the CCP, its leadership approved the slogan ...Read More...
Posted on 01/01/2021 7:17 AM by Michael Rectenwald
Sunday, 27 December 2020

by Michael Rectenwald
As I noted in the previous installment, the Great Reset, if its architects have their way, would involve transformations of nearly every aspect of life. Here, I will limit my discussion to the economics of the Great Reset as promoted by the World Economic Forum (WEF), as ...Read More...
Posted on 12/27/2020 5:18 AM by Michael Rectenwald
Thursday, 17 December 2020

by Michael Rectenwald
The Great Reset is on everyone’s mind, whether everyone knows it or not. It is presaged by the measures undertaken by states across the world in response to the covid-19 crisis. (I mean by “crisis” not the so-called pandemic itself, but the responses to a novel virus called ...Read More...
Posted on 12/17/2020 5:22 AM by Michael Rectenwald
Sunday, 6 December 2020

by Michael Rectenwald
While my country’s currently the Dis-United States of America, calls for it to be broken up into a Republican-dominated state and a Democrat-dominated one are so radical that it’s difficult to see how it could be implemented.
The US is so bitterly divided that some wonks ...Read More...
Posted on 12/06/2020 5:26 AM by Michael Rectenwald
Thursday, 26 November 2020

by Michael Rectenwald
[This is the transcript of the eponymous talk presented at the Mises Institute’s Ron Paul Symposium on November 7, 2020, in Angleton, Texas.]
“Don’t be evil” may no longer be Google’s official company motto, but it remains the last sentence of its Code of Conduct. As ...Read More...
Posted on 11/26/2020 4:35 AM by Michael Rectenwald
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