Editors' note: Michael Rectenwald is a former leftist who has become one of our country’s most effective critics of the Left. After being forced out of his professorship at NYU, Dr. Rectenwald has written four books explaining the mindset, tactics and goals of the new generation of intolerant leftists -- including, Springtime for Snowflakes, Google Archipelago and Beyond Woke. Thought Criminal is his new work of fiction that parallels our present state of affairs and points to a terrifying future lying just around the corner. Kenneth Timmerman has called it “the 1984 of the Covid era.” It is FrontPage's honor to run an excerpt of Dr. Rectenwald's new book below. (Excerpt from Thought Criminal on FrontPage Magazine. November 24, 2020.)