Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr.'s Blog, page 5

Woman Does Not Live on Work Alone

Labor Day originated as a celebration of the American worker and the gains organized labor won for him, most preeminently the fixed, 40-hour workweek. But not every “pro-labor” government mandate is actually what workers want.

Public intellectual Oren Cass summed up a just concluded Wall Street Journal series about where the money of today’s new parents goes—and, therefore, why young people are reticent about parenthood—as “the big math problem.” The finances of three families with young childre...

I Hit Back at Thought Police

There’s a certain fellow from the Babylon Bee who has become one of these irritating policemen of the right: you can’t say X or question Y or talk to Z.

I’m a free American, as Dave Smith would say, so you know what? I just might say X or question Y or talk to Z, regardless of what the police think about it.

I have been known to push back against this particular fellow because the whole thing is so dull and tiresome. Platitudes from 1987 are not going to solve our problems, and as we survey the ...

The War Against the Kingship of Christ

And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light. Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works.

2 Corinthians 11:14-15

It would be easy to dismiss the following narrative with the conclusion that it is written from a position of hatred and racism.  Nothing could be further from the truth.  This narrative is not directed against all the people claiming to be Jewish, for as l...

Von der Leyen Is Lying About Russian GPS Interference

There is reason why the name of the President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen is often mangled into von der Lying.

She is notoriously negligent with facts. Here she is caught outright lying to spread fake anti-Russian propaganda.

When I read the headline below, first published by the Financial Times, I immediately thought that something was very wrong with it.

Ursula von der Leyen’s plane hit by suspected Russian GPS interference (archived) – FT, Sep 1 2025

A suspected Russian in...

Nihilism? Look in the Mirror, Liberals

In the aftermath of any headline event, like the trans-killer-who-shall-remain-nameless church killing last week, it is always instructive for me to read the liberal commentary solving it all by taking guns away from far-right literally-fascist racist-sexist-homophobes gun nuts — or transphobes, as the case may be.

My “living truth” is that everything is the fault of the educated class, because it is our educated liberals that sit on the commanding heights of both politics and religion, the locu...

Labored Daze

In the labored daze of AI hype and GDP “growth,” few seem to notice the workforce is tired of being exploited as an uncomplaining resource.

“Great Powers” claim their greatness on prestige technologies and military force, but how do they measure up if we change the metrics to how they treat their workforces. How great are they then? China and the U.S. claim the mantles of “Great Powers” but if we look at how well they treat their workforces, both rate poorly.

What matters in assessing the workfo...

Department of War?

Last week President Trump took steps to re-name the Department of Defense the “Department of War.” The President explained his rationale for the name change: “It used to be called the Department of War and it had a stronger sound. We want defense, but we want offense too … As Department of War we won everything…and I think we…have to go back to that.”

At first it sounds like a terrible idea. A “Department of War” may well make war more likely – the “stronger sound” may embolden the US government...

The Betrayal of Palestinian Journalists

There are two types of war correspondents. The first type does not attend press conferences. They do not beg generals and politicians for interviews. They take risks to report from combat zones. They send back to their viewers or readers what they see, which is almost always diametrically opposed to official narratives. This first type, in every war, is a tiny minority.

Then there is the second type, the inchoate blob of self-identified war correspondents who play at war. Despite what they tell ...

The Tianjin Show: Let’s Dance to the Multipolar Groove

It’s always about hard work – for the common good. That’s what BRICS and SCO are fighting for.

Oh, what a show that was. A pan-Asia, pan-Eurasia, crossover Global South ball, with glittering dynamo Tianjin as backdrop, enjoyed as such by the overwhelming majority of the planet, while predictably generating cascades of sour grapes among the fragmented West – from the omnipotent Empire of Chaos to The Coalition of the Toothless Chihuahuas.

History will register that as much as BRICS finally steppe...

Is Prostitution Okay?

The winner of New York City’s Democratic mayoral primary was Zohran Mamdani, a Muslim democratic socialist who has been a member of the New York State Assembly since 2021. Conservatives are ecstatic that they have a professing socialist to attack so as to deflect attention away from their support of socialistic programs and policies like Social Security, Medicaid, Medicare, and public education.

Mamdani advocates higher taxes on rich property owners, corporations, and millionaires; free childcar...