Ep. 1771 Michael Rectenwald on the American Dystopia

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Tom Woods

Politics, Economics, Libertarian, Government, News

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🗓️ 7 November 2020

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Marxist turned classical liberal Michael Rectenwald joins me to discuss some of the dystopian features of 2020 America as we explore themes from his new novel, "Thought Criminal".

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0:00.0	The Tom Wood Show Episode 1771.
0:03.5	Prepare to set fire to the index card of allowable opinion.
0:08.1	Your daily dose of liberty education starts here.
0:11.6	The Tom Wood Show.
0:14.6	Hey everybody, you ever get the feeling that you're living in a completely different reality
0:18.4	from your friends and coworkers?
0:20.4	I have a funny feeling you could use a haven of sanity right about now.
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0:30.1	can be found inside the Tom Wood Show Elite.
0:33.8	Join me there and find yourself a haven of sanity.
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0:41.5	Hi everybody, Tom Woods here.
0:42.8	Michael Reckton-Wald is back on the show.
0:44.8	If you've followed this program at all, you know Michael Reckton-Wald is the former NYU professor
0:50.8	who spent most of his career as a Marxist, then came out against all this so-called woke stuff.
0:56.7	And by the way, that just, that term makes me crazy.
0:59.6	I can't imagine that you would use the word woke to refer to people who hold entirely conventional,
1:06.4	predictable views about everything.
1:08.3	If anybody's woke, it's people who figure out what's wrong with those ideas.
1:13.1	But anyway, don't get me started on that.
1:15.4	Anyway, Reckton-Wald is the most recent addition to the faculty at LibertyClassroom.com
1:21.8	because he's created a course for us on postmodernism, critical theory, and cultural studies.
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