Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr.'s Blog, page 132

The First Libertarian?

Most libertarians count Murray Rothbard as one of their mentors. They will know that one of Rothbard’s primary mentors was Ludwig Von Mises. But Rothbard dug deeper in his search for libertarian thinking. Here is a little-seen paper that he wrote in 1967:

The first libertarian intellectual was Lao-tzu, the founder of Taoism. Little is known about his life, but apparently he was a personal acquaintance of Confucius in the late sixth century BC and like the latter came from the state of Sung and w...

Free Speech Is Worth Fighting For

We do not have free speech to talk about the weather. Our Founders, particularly James Madison who drafted the Bill of Rights, understood that our rights are not privileges granted to us by government. No, it was understood at the founding that these basic natural rights outlined by Madison were granted by our Creator and thus no mere mortal could take them away. And first among these is the First Amendment which recognizes that most basic of our natural rights: the right to express ourselves in...

Who Paid for the Bombs?

On March 15 2025 President Trump started bombing the Houtis in Yemen. The scandal about leaked text messages via signal chat regarding the bombings of the Houtis in Yemen is another diversion from the real scandal. The scandal is not that military information was leaked out to media before the attack. The scandal is that the attack was illegal and unconstitutional. That seems to be ignored.

President Trump had no authorization to bomb the Houtis in Yemen. There was no Declaration of War by Congr...

The Deep State Has Used the NY Times To Announce Its Withdrawal from Washington’s Conflict With Russia

Last Saturday the New York Times completely abandoned the official narrative of the Ukraine Conflict, thus overturning the apple cart full of lies.  Jeff Childers gives us the gist of the New York Times abandonment of the ruling lie. See here. 

What is the explanation?  My guess is that the Deep State has decided to abandon the conflict and is most likely the author of the Times’ article. The purpose of the article is to set up Zelensky as the scapegoat who caused the war to be lost and to get r...

My Palestinian Friends Taught Me How to Combat Anti-Semitism

I didn’t set out to learn about anti-Semitism from Palestinians. But I did.

My organization the Vulnerable People Project has worked for years to serve vulnerable communities everywhere, from Afghanistan to Chinese-occupied East Turkestan to Nigeria to Gaza. And if there’s one thing I’ve learned, it’s that the first step to defending the vulnerable is to see them clearly.

A characteristic event that makes a group of people vulnerable occurs when the powerful elites of the world turn their backs ...

A Weird Remedy

Sometimes, when a pendulum swings too far, there’s an urge to replace the weight with a wrecking ball.

In some ways, that’s good. Eyesores should be demolished after over-eager architects get out of hand.

Insane and Suicidal

The Biden border policy was insane to the point of being suicidal. That administration didn’t merely allow illegal aliens, it welcomed them… like a Maître d’ showing diners to their table.

From the far reaches of the world, “migrants” were funneled thru the Darien Gap, guide...

The Zionist Destruction of American Higher Education

We may be witnessing the ongoing destruction of one of the greatest pillars of postwar American global influence and hegemony.

Late last week an astonishing event occurred in American society, and video clips of that incident quickly went viral across the Internet.

A 30-year-old Tufts doctoral student and Fulbright Scholar from Turkey was walking across her Boston-area neighborhood on the way to a holiday dinner at a friend’s house when she was suddenly seized and abducted in the early evening b...

Trump and Putin Could Bring Peace to the World

England and France, American puppet states for decades until the advent of Trump 2, are visibly at work disrupting Trump’s effort to reach a deal with Putin that ends the conflict in Ukraine.  The Russian Defense Ministry said that the second strike on the Sudzha pipeline infrastructure in Russia’s Kursk Region last Friday, which completed the destruction of the facility, was the work of Britain and France.

According to the Russian Defense Ministry, the targeting and navigation of the American H...

The American Public Will Have To Step in To Eliminate the Parasitic Bureaucracy

The reasons why conservatives fight so adamantly for smaller government have never been more obvious than they are today. Even before the DOGE audits, the galactic cost of federal debt spending was clearly crushing our economy. The interest payments alone are costing the American taxpayer around $1 trillion annually. If nothing changes for the better the national debt will hit $54 trillion by 2034.

Of course, this is unsustainable. The system will completely collapse well before another decade e...

Good News: You’re Not Enough

ust this morning, I opened an email from an online merchant. Its peppy message meant to encourage me: “We just want you know today that you’re enough. You’ve got this!”

Funny, but I didn’t feel that way when my temper flared on a busy day last week. I didn’t notice this special empowerment in my darkened mood following an argument. I wasn’t feeling “enough” when I received a rejection letter. But don’t worry— I’ve got this!

We encounter these kinds of well-meaning platitudes all the time. Most o...