“Wrestling with Shadows The defender of the rule of law you are not permitted to mention”

“Wrestling with Shadows
The defender of the rule of law
you are not permitted to mention”

August, 2025

“Wrestling with Shadows: The defender of the rule of law you are not permitted to mention” relates the true story of Emanuel Pastreich and the struggle against totalitarianism in America in which he played a critical role, starting in the summer of 2000 at University of Illinois. That life and death struggle against militarism, corporate control, and the first tendrils of fascism that started to wrap around the American soul from that moment has never been treated directly by a media source from left to right, from mainstream to conspiracy, from highbrow to lowbrow. This brief video touches on the essential political, ideological and institutional crisis of that moment that since then has metastasized and spread through the body politic; a tragedy and a spiritual cancer that public intellectuals and politicians have done us no favors, and much harm, by refusing to address in any form.