Michael Rectenwald, retired professor at New York University, was a lifelong Marxist until very recently. He’s now repudiated that past and embraced a Misesian future. His new book, Beyond Woke, explores… Read More
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Ep. 1497 Google Archipelago: The Digital Gulag and the Simulation of Freedom
Michael Rectenwald returns to the show to discuss woke capitalism, big tech, the mob mentality, and the suppression of dissident voices. Sponsor Simple Habit is a meditation app that takes… Read More
Ep. 1346 Libertarianism vs. Postmodernism and “Social Justice” Ideology
Professor Michael Rectenwald, the former Marxist who will deliver the Ludwig von Mises Memorial Lecture at the Mises Institute’s Austrian Economics Research Conference this year, returns for a sneak preview… Read More
Ep. 1278 Woods’s Greatest Hits
In today’s episode I review some of the golden nuggets from the previous 600 or so episodes. Fascinating people and ideas you may have missed — and even if you… Read More
Ep. 1254 Theater of the Absurd: Guess What These Peer-Reviewed Journals Were Tricked into Publishing
Three academics just made public a secret project they had been engaged in for a year: submitting absurd, nonsense articles to major, peer-reviewed journals in gender studies and similar fields… Read More
Ep. 1249 Continually Mistaken, Chronically Admired: The Strange Case of an Establishment Economist
Joseph Stiglitz is something of a celebrity economist, yet he’s been grotesquely wrong both economically and morally so often. His case tells us a lot about the American establishment if… Read More
Ep. 1244 The Professor Everybody Shuns
Michael Rectenwald, a lifelong leftist, has found himself shunned by former friends and colleagues — even people whose careers he helped advance — because he criticized and satirized some of… Read More
Ep. 819 The Campus Crazies: What They’re Up to, and What We Should Do
I’ve spoken to numerous professors who have confronted the campus left, so I thought I’d talk to a current college student who writes about these subjects to find out what’s… Read More
Ep. 808 Deplorable NYU Professor Wins Victory Over SJWs
Michael Rectenwald, a professor of liberal studies at New York University who describes himself as a lifelong left-liberal, took to Twitter not long ago to express his disgust with political correctness,… Read More
The Tom Woods Show Library of Episodes
Subscribe to the show for free on Apple Podcasts or Stitcher and never miss an episode! Ep. 1547 The Country Where Libertarian Thought Is Thriving – December 4, 2019 – Raphael Lima Ep. 1546 Another Multimillionaire Who… Read More
