Michael Malice

Michael Krechmer (born July 12, 1976), known professionally as Michael Malice, is a Ukrainian-American author, and podcaster. He is the host of "YOUR WELCOME" with Michael Malice, a video podcast which airs on Podcast One.

Early life and education Malice was born in Lviv, a city in the former Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic. Malice has a sister and two nephews. He is of Jewish heritage and grew up speaking Russian.

When he was two years old, he moved with his parents to the Bensonhurst neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York City. His father originally worked as a courier and attended Baruch College to study computer science. He later worked for Merrill Lynch. Malice also worked for Goldman Sachs before quitting.

Career Blog and talk shows Malice is the co-creator and founding editor of the humor blog Overheard in New York that posts submissions of conversations allegedly heard by eavesdroppers in New York City. Launched in 2003, the site was inspired by a conversation overheard by co-creator S. Morgan Friedman. A book based on some of the site's submissions was published in 2006.

Writings Malice has co-authored and ghostwritten books for celebrities. He co-wrote MMA fighter Matt Hughes's 2008 autobiography Made in America: The Most Dominant Champion in UFC History. It is written from the hypothetical first-person view of Kim and is a semi-farcical commentary on how he is portrayed to the North Korean people. Much of it was based on English language propaganda that Malice collected while on a week-long trip to Pyongyang, North Korea in 2012. In a generally positive review for NK News, Rob York described Dear Reader as "informative, and surprisingly earnest."

Malice's 2019 book The New Right: A Journey to the Fringe of American Politics says that the American New Right movement should not be equated to Nazis and that some members are acting out in response to progressivism. Kirkus Reviews doubted some of his reasoning, noting that many of his interviewees "are disturbingly assured that Hitler, if not Jefferson Davis, had it right". Kennedy, Red Eye, The Story with Martha MacCallum, and Tucker Carlson Tonight. He is also a regular guest on The Tom Woods Show podcast and has appeared on The Joe Rogan Experience

Reception Malice's early life was the subject of Harvey Pekar's 2006 biographical graphic novel Ego & Hubris: The Michael Malice Story, illustrated by Gary Dumm.

Views Malice describes himself as an anarchist or anarchist without adjectives. Reason described his politics as a combination of anarchism, objectivism, and libertarianism in 2006. In 2014, he wrote an opinion piece for The Guardian explaining why he does not vote. Malice has advocated for the peaceful dissolution of the United States.

Malice is known for trolling others on social media, according to The American Conservative. He has said his pseudonymous surname was inspired primarily by British punk singer Lora Logic, and by nicknames such as Sid Vicious and Poly Styrene that were common within the punk movement and Andy Warhol's circle, which he has cited as influences.