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Michael D. Rectenwald is Co-founder and Chief Academic Officer of American Scholars and former Professor of Liberal Studies and Global Liberal Studies at New York University. He holds a Ph.D. in literary and cultural studies from Carnegie Mellon University, and he has taught at Duke University, North Carolina Central University, Carnegie Mellon University, and Case Western Reserve University.

He is the author of the books, Thought Criminal; Beyond Woke; Google Archipelago: The Digital Gulag and the Simulation of Freedom; Springtime for Snowflakes: “Social Justice” and Its Postmodern Parentage; Nineteenth-Century British Secularism: Science, Religion and Literature; Academic Writing, Real World Topics; Global Secularisms in a Post-Secular Age; Breach; The Thief and Other Stories; and The Eros of the Baby-Boom Eras.

His scholarly papers have appeared in The Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics, Academic Questions, Endeavour, British Journal for the History of Science, College Composition and Communication, and International Philosophical Quarterly, as well as the anthologies, Organized Secularism in the United States and Global Secularisms in a Post-Secular Age, and George Eliot in Context.

His popular articles have appeared on The Mises Institute Wire, The Epoch Times, RT.com, Campus Reform, The New English Review, The International Business Times, The American Conservative, Quillette, The Washington Post, The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, and elsewhere. And he has appeared on such shows as Tucker Carlson Tonight, Fox & Friends, Fox & Friends First, Varney & Company, The Glenn Beck Show, and Coast to Coast AM as well as The Epoch Times’ "American Thought Leaders" series.