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Essays, serialized books, and poems by Michael Rectenwald

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A New Economic Criticism

A review of Libertarian Literary and Media Criticism by Michael Rectenwald

The Iron Burrow

Hardwiring Israel into America’s Military and Intelligence Core

The Great Leap Backward

Who promoted and supported Mao?

Christian Zionism

A Judaized Protestant Tradition and Its Historical Roots

The Palantir Panopticon

In my book Google Archipelago: The Digital Gulag and the Simulation of Freedom (2019), I argued that the main danger with AI is not a rogue super-intelligence that might rebel against humanity; the far greater danger is perfect AI obedience.

War On Iran: Israel’s Iron Grip on U.S. Military Policy

The brazen assault on Iran, initiated by the United States and Israel on February 28, 2026, is proof-positive of nothing less than the abject surrender of American sovereignty to Israeli diktats.

The Politics of Science

A Review of Restoring Science and the Rule of Law

The AI Execution of "the Author"

In the late 1960s, the postmodernist French thinkers Roland Barthes and Michel Foucault declared that the “author” was either dead or should be killed.

Zion Don

The Completion of U.S. Zionization*

Brian Wilson’s Last Wave

Dylan's dark prophecies, Wilson's luminous hope