Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr.'s Blog, page 129

Wintour of Our Discontent

The irony of it is that we’re still living in the thick of so many of the left’s bad ideas and policies. Biological boys are still excelling in girls’ sports, and every Democrat in the Senate voted against a law to stop it. I could go on, but let’s look at how the media is reacting to The Donald’s Second Coming.

A New York Times columnist who is among the very few not suffering from a nervous breakdown after the last election wrote: “I think parallels with Nazi Germany are overdrawn; the word fa...

How Globalists Use Crazed Leftists To Piss Off the Populace and Provoke Dictatorship

There is nothing more dangerous than an incomplete picture of history. A hundred years from now, if the powers-that-be have their way, the few children still allowed to be born (due to carbon controls) will be regaled with school lessons about the “Dark Ages of Nationalism” – When humanity was divided into warring states and divided societies that refused to embrace multiculturalism “to the detriment of all”.

They will say that a “great movement” for globalism and wokeness arose and that the cou...

Bipartisan Assault on Free Speech

International Man: Under the previous administration, we saw an aggressive push against so-called “disinformation”—fact-checkers, censorship, and suppression of views outside the mainstream narrative. At the same time, there was a strong focus on social justice, gender ideology, and migrant protection.

What’s your perspective on that era and its impact on free speech?

Doug Casey: It’s no longer okay to have a difference of opinion in politics and academia. Not so long ago, it was possible to hav...

Caught Between the System Swarm and the Group Think Horde

“There are no conservatives in Cambridge, Massachusetts” – Steven B., PhD, Harvard, Brandeis, phone conversation

Dr. Shiva Ayyadurai, PhD, MIT, is a distinguished research biological-engineer and developer of artificial intelligence systems based in the high-tech and bio-tech corridors of Cambridge, Massachusetts who ran for president in the 2024 election. Dr. Shiva also sponsors the political awareness and self-health Truth-Freedom-Heath Movement. Below I evaluate the radical Shiva political aw...

After Ukraine and NATO Are Spun Off, Who’s Next?

Moon of Alabama observes that Trump’s mineral deal with Ukraine creates indefinite indentured servitude for western Ukraine. Trump seems to see himself as General MacArthur to Zelensky’s Hirohito, after a great defeat, rather than two losers who a provoked – and lost – a war with Russia. As some have noted, a deal like this with the Americans may make unconditional surrender to a wealthy and Slav-sympatico Russia a far better alternative for the average Ukrainian.

Inauthentic leadership, corrupt...

The Assassination and Resurrection of Martin Luther King, Jr.

The following article, in a slightly different form, appears in my new book, At the Lost and Found (Clarity Press)

“I don’t believe in death without resurrection. If they kill me, I will rise again in the Salvadorian people…”  – Archbishop Oscar Romero, martyred, 24 March 1980

Whether we are aware of it or not, we live by stories. We live by others’ stories while we tell our lives by how we live.  Our actions tell our stories.  Then, when we die, others tell our stories as they wish.

This is the...

Prophets, Nomads and a Fourth Turning Accelerating Towards a Bloody Climax

“In retrospect, the spark might seem as ominous as a financial crash, as ordinary as a national election, or as trivial as a Tea Party. The catalyst will unfold according to a basic Crisis dynamic that underlies all of these scenarios: An initial spark will trigger a chain reaction of unyielding responses and further emergencies. The core elements of these scenarios (debt, civic decay, global disorder) will matter more than the details, which the catalyst will juxtapose and connect in some unkno...

Why is Nuclear War Risk Being Dismissed?

At dinner with my mom on Monday, she mentioned that she’d recently watched the new Bob Dylan movie, A Complete Unknown. A bit of the film takes place during the Cuban Missile Crisis of October 1962. She confessed that she, who was born in 1946, had largely forgotten how frightened people were at the time, with many people leaving large cities (potential targets) in a state of panic.

Our conversation reminded me of a question I’ve been turning over in my head since 2022—namely, why has the risk o...

The Secret JFK Records

For more than 60 years, U.S. officials have claimed that to release their secret JFK-assassination-related records would threaten “national security.” That was their position during the Warren Commission hearings in 1964 and during the House Select Committee hearings in the 1970s. That’s what they told the Assassination Records Review Board in the 1990s. That’s what they told President Trump during his first term in office. That’s how they got President Biden to order the continued secrecy of th...

Born Catholics, Converts, and Contemplation

While studying scholastic theology when I was preparing for the priesthood, St. John Henry Newman inspired me to examine early apostolic Catholic spirituality. Then, over 35 years ago now, I sought out a life of semi-solitude to intensify this search and practice contemplation, and I rediscovered the sublime spirituality that we have so recently lost.

By we, I mean more specifically born Catholics, for whom the faith has become little more than a philosophy of life since the heretical Quietism o...