Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr.'s Blog, page 35

Everybody’s Problem

We’ve noted the tendency of insufferable busybodies to make, magnify, or invent messes… and then “solve” those problems by making them worse.

In doing so, the do-gooders enhance their status, inflate their finances, and divert attention from more serious shenanigans happening off-stage. Today we retract the curtain, and shine a light on the prime protagonist of most public pathologies.

Paw Prints

CS Lewis considered Pride the worst of the deadly sins, because it was the source and stimulus of al...

More Irrational Attacks in Our Dysfunctional Society

As I have long maintained, the systems that modern-day Americans have embraced have served to produce a very dysfunctional society. The best manifestation of this dysfunction are the suicides of young people. When youngsters are checking out of life early, that’s a powerful sign that something fundamental is wrong.

There is also the fact that America is a drug-addled society, which is reflected by the fact that the U.S. government still has to maintain a vicious, nationwide drug-war police state...

Take Me To the River

I wear seasonal clothes, eat seasonal foods and like to write about seasonal topics. During the past few weeks, I’ve written about summer experiences. This week, I’ll continue to celebrate this season of daylight and warmth.

Though some days are warmer than we like.

I’ve done much outdoor work in the summer, including as a food and flower grower, garbageman, roofer, landscaper and camp counselor/swim teacher. I’ve also often played sports outdoors. Being out in so much sun has beaten up my skin....

My Advice to Catholic Young Men

Last week, the popular rapper Zuby, who has amassed a significant following on social media as a self-described “epitome of toxic positivity,” posted an article titled “My Honest Advice For Gen Z Men.” He includes 12 life tips for young men from his perspective as a “successful Millennial.” The article is actually quite good and I recommend young men read it. But as Catholics, we can go deeper. So here’s my advice specifically for young Catholic men, based on my own experiences as a GenX man as ...

The Fall Of The Israel Lobby—And Christian Zionism—Has Begun

My homily last Sunday was entitled The False Doctrine Of Christian Zionism Is Starting To Fall Apart. In this message, I said:

It is the Epstein case that is creating the cracks in the lie of Christian Zionism. Make no mistake about it: The Epstein pedophile network and the Israeli genocidal wars in the Middle East are indissolubly linked.

The reason the ruling class in Washington, D.C., and New York City are so determined to support Israel no matter how demonic its actions might be is directly ...

The New Gulag: Mental Health Detentions and the Criminalization of Dissent

“There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is a dangerous activity.”—Hannah Arendt

The government’s war on homelessness—much like its war on terrorism, its war on drugs, its war on illegal immigration, and its war on COVID-19—is yet another Trojan Horse.

First, President Trump issues an executive order empowering federal agencies to clear out homeless encampments and lock up the homeless in mental institutions using involuntary civil commitment laws intended for dealing with individuals e...

Uneasy Money

How many of you readers out there sincerely want to be very rich? The get-rich tip is only for Takimag faithful, so keep it under your belt: You go to something called Seeking Arrangement, and when a certain David Geffen contacts you, take his call. The bad news is there’s some hanky-panky involved, the kind I know nothing about but is the one celebrated by a multicolored flag for a whole bloody month. You then sue him, and you tell your lawyers that he plied you with drugs and told you that you...

Ukraine – Anti-Corruption Independence Restored, Zelenski Weakened, Four Cities Are Falling

On Monday the 21st of July the Ukrainian Secret Service (SBU) searched offices of the independent anti-corruption police (NABU) and anti-corruption prosecutor office (SAPO) and detained several of its investigators. A day later the Zelenski regime pushed a law through parliament which ended the independence of both entities by putting them under control of the prosecutor general.

The move had been planned for months (in Russian) but was executed in haste after NABU and SAPO had served a notices-...

The Demise of Western Law Dates From the Nuremberg Trials

Today as I write we are experiencing the effort by Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabba and CIA Director John Ratcliffe to retrieve American law from its weaponization against President Trump by the Obama Five–John Brennan, James Coney, James Clapper, Hillary Clinton, and President Obama himself, all of whom have been referred to the Attorney General on criminal charges. These people created the false “Russiagate” charges against President Trump in order to cancel his election and presi...

Is the Federal Reserve Purposely Trying To Destroy the U.S. Economy?

Oops, they did it again.  Even though the housing market has been in a depressed state for an extended period of time and even though economic conditions are slowing down all over the country, the Federal Reserve has once again refused to lower interest rates.  What in the world are they thinking?  I certainly share President Trump’s frustration with the Fed.  Central banks all over the world have been cutting rates, but our central bank just won’t budge.  Have Fed officials gone completely insa...