The Tom Woods Show, episode 1244.

Prepare to set fire to the index card of allowable opinion.

Your daily dose of liberty education starts here, the Tom Woods Show.

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Hey, everybody, Tom Woods here. I am very, very glad that Michael Rectinwald is joining us once again.

You may remember him as the professor at NYU who got into trouble for his anonymous

Twitter account that he eventually revealed voluntarily.

He eventually revealed his identity.

But Michael Rectinwald had been on the left, I mean, the serious, hard left for many, many years.

He was more or less a Marxist. He moved in circles where he was very familiar with postmodernism,

so he's not going to caricature it. He lived it. He opposed it as a Marxist, but he lived it. And he knew all about critical theory. He knew

all the people involved. He had an extremely eventful and interesting academic career.

But within the past couple of years, he just became so disoriented by the degeneration of the left and just the absurdity of some of the social

justice warrior behavior that he had to start commenting on it. And that got him in unbelievable trouble.

We're going to talk about that in a minute. We talked about that with him last time. I don't want to

spend most of the time on that because I want to talk about some of his history because he had a very interesting career.

But then also what I think you're going to like about this conversation is the end.

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