COP28: Climate Catastrophism Wins as the World Loses. By Michael Rectenwald, Ph.D. Mises Wire. 16 December 2023. COP28 has ended. While the 200 member states are not legally bound to execute anything treated in the agreement, delegates and climatologists have suggested that it will force the hands of nations, oil companies, industrial producers, and investors to divest from fossil fuels, accelerating a sea change toward renewable energy and climate change mitigation. Likewise, the terms, when pursued, will have a devastating impact on the world economy. (Originally published on the Mises Institute Wire. December 16, 2023.)

From Leftism to Liberty, a Personal Journey. By Michael Rectenwald, Ph.D. 16 October 2023. In the fall of 2016, I began to have deviationist thoughts. That’s how my thoughts might have been labeled in the Soviet Union anyway—that is, had I lived through the Red Terror, the Stalinist purges, or the Great Terror. In fact, I might have been characterized as a “right deviationist.” Although I wasn’t living in the Soviet Union, a cultural revolution had been getting underway at home, and I was about to step right into the whirlwind. (Published in Libertarian Autobiographies: Moving Toward Freedom in Today’s World. Jo Ann Cavallo and Walter E. Block, eds. Palgrave Macmillan. September 2023. Click here or on title).

COP28: Scandal on Top of Fabrication. By Michael Rectenwald, Ph.D. Mises Wire. 9 December 2023. As climate activists gather in Abu Dhabi, there is trouble in climate paradise. Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber, the meeting's host, is not on the same page with the climate apocalypse. This gives him the dreaded moniker of “climate denier.” (Originally published on the Mises Wire. December 9, 2023.)