Big Tech Meets Big Brother [Video]

RectenwaldAlexandra Bruce – Former NYU professor, Michael Rectenwald, author of ‘Springtime for Snowflakes’ and ‘The Google Archipelago’ joins Dan Happel on Connecting the Dots to talk about the history of corporate Socialism and about his own odyssey, from a full-blown Communist academic to now a free-enterprise public intellectual.

This interview is two hours long and I’ve set it to start about 32 minutes in but you may want to scroll back and listen to the whole show.

It’s a real treat to hear an academic with a solid grasp of history and ideology articulating what’s been going on in our culture and unconsciously in our own minds. My academic training in cultural criticism was very similar to his except that I didn’t get a master’s or a doctorate or become a professor but I did land in the same completely unexpected place that he has. Continue reading