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...

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...