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Lew Rockwell
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Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr. (born 1 July 1944, Boston), widely known as Lew Rockwell, is an American libertarian political commentator and activist.
Rockwell is the founder and President of the Ludwig von Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, Vice President of the Center for Libertarian Studies in Burlingame, California and publisher of the political weblog LewRockwell.com. Rockwell was closely associated with his teacher and colleague Murray Rothbard until Rothbard's death in 1995. Rockwell's political ideology, like Rothbard's in his later years, combines an anarcho-capitalist form of paleolibertarianism with cultural conservatism and the Austrian School of economics. Rockwell also espouses federalist concepts allowing the states very wide latitude and freedom from central government, secession and political decentralization. Rockwell is a Roman Catholic. He served as Ron Paul's congressional chief of staff between 1978 and 1982.[1]
He is the author of Speaking of Liberty, an anthology of editorials which were originally published on his web site along with transcripts from some of his speaking engagements. Rockwell and the Mises Institute together publish the Journal of Libertarian Studies.
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Lew Rockwell's eponymous web site features a selection of articles, including opposition to war and imperialism along with occasional articles criticizing the presidency of Abraham Lincoln.[2] The site also carries essays which argue against the participation of the United States in the Second World War, speculation about an end of the United States as a cohesive union and assertions the Western world is threatened by an intersection of fascism and socialism alike as politicians and states centralize their power.[3][4][5] These writings are sometimes controversial and have brought harsh criticism from both the political left and right.[6][7]
- Speaking of Liberty (2003), (online e-book) ISBN 0-945466-38-2
- Man, Economy, and Liberty: Essays in Honor of Murray N. Rothbard (with Walter Block) (1986), ISBN 99911-786-2-7
- The Free Market Reader (1988), ISBN 0-945466-02-1
- The Economics of Liberty (1990), ISBN 0-945466-08-0
- The Gold Standard: Perspectives in the Austrian School (1992), ISBN 0-945466-11-0
- The Irrepressible Rothbard (2000), ISBN 1-883959-02-0
- ^ Berlau, John. "Now Playing Right Field." Insight on the News. 10 February 1997.
- ^ LewRockwell.com Lincoln archive [1]
- ^ Rogers, Mike. "Dying For the Emperor? No Way." LewRockwell.com. 12 October 2005. [2]
- ^ Gonella, Jason. "The Decline and Fall of the United States Empire." LewRockwell.com. 9 December 2004 [3]
- ^ DiLorenzo, Thomas J. "Economic Fascism" LewRockwell.com. 23 November 2004. [4]
- ^ Laksin, Jacob. "The Right’s Left Turn." FrontPageMag. 5 October 2005. [5]
- ^ Goldberg, Jonah. "Farewell, Lew Rockwell: The final word." National Review Online. 7 March 2001. [6]
- LewRockwell.com
- Ludwig von Mises Institute
- "My Speech at the Antiwar Rally," LewRockwell.com, 25 September 2005
- "My Visit to DC: An Interview with Lew Rockwell," Mises.org Podcast, 9 December 2005
- Lew Rockwell's Articles: at LewRockwell.com, on Mises.org's "Daily Articles", The Free Market & more here, and WorldNetDaily.
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