Michael J. Knowles

Michael John Knowles (born March 18, 1990) is an American former actor and political commentator. He co-hosts a podcast with Ted Cruz.

Articles

In 2016, Knowles wrote an article for The Daily Wire called“An Actual Conservative’s Guide to the Alt-Right. ^[1]In it, he criticized Milo Yiannopoulos, Steve Bannon and Donald Trump and accused them of being too close to the alt-right. In the same article Knowles criticized the alt-right for racism and anti-Semitism. He said it went against the ethics and morals of Christianity.

Videos

Since then Knowles filmed a Prager University video called “What is the Alt-Right. Knowles said that the alt-right actually had much more in common with left-wing politics than with right-wing politics. ^[2]Knowles wrote a book called Reasons to Vote for Democrats about all the reasons to vote for the Democratic Party of the United States and the book had no words in it as a joke. It was praised by Ben Shapiro and Donald Trump.

Knowles also filmed a Prager University video called “Control the Words, Control the Culture”. It is about how language can be used as a political tool. ^[3] And inspired by that video, Knowles wrote a book called Speechless: Controlling Words, Controlling Minds. He argues that conservatives should support certain forms of censorship and cancel culture to fight back against left-wing politics.

He also filmed a Prager University video called Conservatives Are the Real Environmentalists in which he says that right-wing politics are better for the environment than left-wing politics are.

He also made a Prager University video called Celebrating Columbus. He says people should continue to celebrate Columbus Day despite criticism of Christopher Columbus.

Book club

Knowles also hosts a book club for Prager University.

Controversies

Knowles was banned from ever again appearing on Fox News after he called Greta Thunberg a “mentally ill child” being exploited by the Left. ^[4] In 2022, The New York Times criticized Knowles for having said on Twitter “the 2020 election was obviously rigged”. Knowles is also extremely critical of Never Trumpers.