Scholars Line Up to Join Anti-Woke School; I was a Convicted ‘Thought Criminal’: Michael Rectenwald

In China and the Soviet Union ‘dissidents’ were disappeared or imprisoned; here, in ‘our cultural revolution,’ people are “losing their jobs, losing positions, losing social standing,” says NYU Professor Michael Rectenwald (Rtd.) The ‘American Scholars’ education platform is designed to counter this ‘woke,’ ‘cancel culture’ that is taking hold in American education. Rectenwald is its chief academic officer. Meanwhile a school choice movement aimed at serving Minnesota’s black community is also countering the idea that America is a racist nation. “The people that helped me along the way were white and black, rich and poor, male and female. Americans help each other. They don't put a filter on it,” says its founder Kendall Qualls. Hundreds of academics, including big names, have applied to join ‘American Scholars.’—which is promising American values-based education, and “better bang for your buck” than establishment colleges. Critical race theory is simply a proxy for socialism… It converts Marxist class antagonism into racial antagonism, says Prof. Rectenwald.