Lew Rockwell

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Lew Rockwell (2006)

Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr. (* 1 July 1944 in Boston ), widely known as Lew Rockwell , is an American libertarian political commentator, economist of the Austrian school and activist . He coined the term paleolibertarianism .

biography

He is Roman Catholic and holds a degree in English from Tufts University . From 1978 to 1982 he worked as Ron Paul's chief of staff in his convention bureau. Over the years he had a working relationship with Paul as contributing editor on The Ron Paul Investment Letter; as advisor to Paul's 1988 Libertarian Party campaign for President of the United States ; and as vice-chairman of the Exploratory Talks Committee for Paul's abandoned candidacy, 1992, for the Republican Party's nomination for president.

In 1982 Rockwell founded the Ludwig von Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama and is its president.

He is also the Vice President of the Center for Libertarian Studies in Burlingame , California and the editor 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 the Rothbards in his later years, combines some form of anarcho-capitalism with cultural conservatism and the Austrian school . Rockwell described so-called " ecologism " as "an ideology as merciless and messianic as Marxism ." ("An ideology as pitiless and Messianic as Marxism.")

Rockwell came under fire when the libertarian magazine Reason suggested in January 2008 that Rockwell had been a ghostwriter for Ron Paul's newsletter in the late 1980s and early 1990s, when it published homophobic and racist statements several times. Rockwell denied the allegations.

LewRockwell.com

Lew Rockwell's website contains a selection of articles in opposition to war and imperialism . The page also contains posts critically examining the United States' involvement in World War II , speculation about the end of the United States as a cohesive union, and claims that the Western world is again threatened by a cross between fascism and socialism when politicians and states centralize their power. These articles are sometimes controversial and have received harsh criticism from some American Conservatives.

Fonts

author

  • Speaking of Liberty . Ludwig von Mises Institute, Auburn, Alabama 2003. ISBN 0-945466-38-2 .

editor

  • with Walter Block : Man, Economy, and Liberty: Essays in Honor of Murray N. Rothbard . Ludwig Von Mises Institute, 1986. ISBN 99911-786-2-7 .
  • The Free Market Reader: essays in the economics of liberty . Ludwig Von Mises Institute, 1988. ISBN 0-945466-02-1 .
  • The Economics of Liberty . Ludwig Von Mises Institute, 1990. ISBN 0-945466-08-0 .
  • The Gold Standard: Perspectives in the Austrian School . Ludwig von Mises Institute, 1992. ISBN 0-945466-11-0 .
  • with JoAnn Rothbard: Murray N. Rothbard: In Memoriam . Ludwig Von Mises Institute, 1995. ISBN 0-945466-19-6 .
  • The Irrepressible Rothbard. The Rothbard-Rockwell Report Essays of Murray N. Rothbard . Center for Libertarian Studies, 2000. ISBN 1-883959-02-0 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Berlau, John. Now playing right field - Rep. Ron Paul - Interview ( Memento from June 29, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) Insight on the News. February 10, 1997.
  2. ^ About the Mises Institute page at Ludwig von Mises Institute website.
  3. ↑ Rockwell, LH, Jr. (1990). "An anti-environmentalist manifesto." From The Right , Quarterly II, 1 (6), 1. (newsletter of Patrick J. Buchanan), p. 1; Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr. Rockwell's Anti-Environmentalist Manifesto , May 1, 2000 version published by Lewrocwell.com
  4. ↑ Julian Sanchez & David Weigel: " Who Wrote Ron Paul's Newsletters? ", In: Reason , January 16, 2008.
  5. ↑ Laksin, Jacob. "The Right's Left Turn." FrontPageMag . 5 October 2005. [1]  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.frontpagemag.com  
  6. ↑ Goldberg, Jonah. "Farewell, Lew Rockwell: The final word." National Review Online . 7 March 2001. [2]

Web links

personal data
SURNAME Rockwell, Lew
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rockwell, Llewellyn H. Junior
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American libertarian political commentator, economist, and activist
DATE OF BIRTH July 1, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Boston