Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr.'s Blog, page 105

Cage Match

Who knows what to believe these days? Well, what would you expect after years, even decades, of anti-reality operations by everyone from the CIA to The New York Times to Harvard U. Is it any wonder that reality-optionality is making the people both apathetic and insane?

We are told now by the FBI that there is no evidence that Jeffrey Epstein ran a blackmail operation against the politicos of Western Civ, or that a “client list” existed, or that JE was murdered in his jail cell. It well might be...

UN Slams Trump on Education, Demands Globalized Control

The United Nations and its “human rights” bureaucracy are unhappy with American education — especially President Trump’s policies and proposals.

Instead of local or parental control, the UN is pushing for radical changes: more federal power, less educational choice, government oversight of private schools, and the promotion of controversial ideological content — all at taxpayer expense. It also wants education globally redefined as a UN-backed “human right.”

UN Investigates U.S.

The UN’s latest ...

Catholic Priest Says ‘Effeminate’ Men Are the Root Problem in Marriages

What is the biggest problem within Catholic marriages today? According to a traditional priest, it’s “effeminate” men.

By effeminate, he doesn’t mean a man who’s light in his loafers. He means a man who doesn’t spiritually lead his family, and so fails in his most important role.

Especially among traditional Catholics, much attention regarding marriage is given to the problems of feminism and wives’ call to submission. LifeSiteNews asked Father Adam Purdy, FSSPX, to what extent he sees feminism ...

What Freedom of Speech?

In a totalitarian or authoritarian dictatorship, government officials do not need the support of the citizenry to exterminate freedom of speech. That’s because there are no elections to worry about. The regime simply starts having its military and paramilitary goons start arresting critics, disappearing them in terrorist confinement facilities, torturing them, and then killing them. Everyone else understands. No more criticism of the regime.

In a democratic system, suppressing criticism is much ...

To Make America Great Again, Start Here

Our status quo is so thoroughly corrupt that it’s no longer even seen as corruption, it’s just BAU–business as usual.

It’s a big ask, but let’s depoliticize the phrase “make America great again” and consider what this would actually entail, not as a lobbyists’ grab-bag of tax breaks for the wealthy and arcane giveaways in 500-page Congressional bills, but as a restoration of the fundamental foundations of greatness.

In the conventional contexts of the current era, this boils down to ideology and...

Oh la la… Putin Drops Truth Bomb on Macron

For Macron and all the NATO states to do that would be to admit their culpability for creating the biggest war in Europe since the Second World War.

NATO started the conflict in Ukraine, but Russia will end it on its terms, Russian President Vladimir Putin told his French counterpart this week in a wake-up call.

It’s always refreshing and necessary to bring reality into a conversation, assuming, of course, that the purpose of the dialogue is genuinely to resolve a problem.

France’s Emmanuel Macr...

The Shattered Legacy of the Founding Fathers

We’re one year away from the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. It remains one of the most impactful and revolutionary documents ever written. While our horrific leaders still pay infrequent lip service to it, they obviously don’t remotely believe in the sentiments expressed by Thomas Jefferson.

The delineation of God-given rights, as opposed to any granted by a government, was a literary nuclear bomb. This resonated with the American colonists, who almost all b...

Blowback Is Coming… 7/22/25

From 2024 into 2025, over roughly 9-10 months, I worked with journalist Margaret Roberts on her upcoming book, titled Blowback: The Untold Story of the FBI and the Oklahoma City Bombing. My role was that of a research consultant—a friendly resource available to help with a project that I viewed as significant and a righteous undertaking. It was both a pleasure and an honor to collaborate on this project.

Salt Lake City attorney Jesse Trentadue connected me with Roberts, whom he knew for years (r...

How the ‘News’ Media Distort About the Cuts to Medicaid

A typical example is the Politico article, on July 3rd, “Three reasons why Republicans cut Medicaid”, which at its opening asks and answers the question: “why did the GOP slash deeply into the health insurance program in its megabill? Three reasons: [1] Republicans desperately needed money to avoid a big tax increase next year, [2] they wanted to claw back Biden-era policies GOP lawmakers say led to lax eligibility checks and more fraudulent benefit claims and [3] they wanted to curb the Medicai...

Configuring All Things to Christ

So, then, what is Christian Culture? What does it look like? Are there certain defining features that distinguish it from what passes for culture these days? And if so, how are we to recognize them?

What it is, at the deepest level, is an answer to the question raised by the Hebrew psalmist in a time of unprecedented anguish and desolation, when the People of the Promise are forced to endure exile and captivity. They have lost their land, their freedom; the temple where they worship the living G...