Lew Rockwell

Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr., more commonly known as Lew Rockwell, is a libertarian political commentator in the United States. Rockwell is the founder and President of the Ludwig von Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama and Vice President of the Center for Libertarian Studies in Burlingame, California. Rockwell was closely associated with his teacher and colleague Murray Rothbard until Rothbard's death in 1995, and like Rothbard in his later years his political ideology combines an anarcho-capitalist form of paleolibertarianism with cultural conservatism and the Austrian School of economics. Rockwell also espouses the political concepts of decentralization and secession.

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Libertarian - United States - Ludwig von Mises Institute - Auburn, Alabama - Center for Libertarian Studies - Burlingame, California - Murray Rothbard - 1995 - Ideology - Anarcho-capitalist - Paleolibertarianism - Conservatism - Austrian School - Decentralization - Secession

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He is the author of 'Speaking of Liberty, an anthology of editorials which he originally published on his web site and speeches that he delivered at various paleolibertarian and other speaking engagements.

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Rockwell's opposition to the war in Iraq has led to criticism from some in the neo-conservative movement. Jacob Laksin, writing for FrontPageMag.com, says that Rockwell has become "a willing dupe of the far left,"http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=19727 and calls into question his Libertarian credentials. Rockwell responded to this criticism saying, "there is nothing too complicated about why the left today looks better than the right (and its unthinking defenses of Bush): the right holds the balance of federal power and the left doesn't. It's the flipside of the 1990s, when the Republicans attacked Clinton foreign policy for its nation-building overrearch and democrat imperialism etc. while the left warmed up to the domestic and international uses of the armed forces. It's all about power. Libertarianism is contra power."http://blog.mises.org/blog/archives/004170.asp

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Neo-conservative - Jacob Laksin - FrontPageMag.com

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