Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr.'s Blog, page 81

Let Me Now Praise James Agee

On the Romantic poet John Keats’ tombstone in the Protestant Cemetery in Rome are these words, which he chose: “HERE LIES ONE WHOSE NAME WAS WRIT IN WATER.”

His name is not there, by choice. Keats was twenty-five when he died. In Ode to Psyche he wrote:

Yes, I will be thy priest, and build a fane
In some untrodden region of my mind,
Where branched thoughts, new grown with pleasant pain,
Instead of pines shall murmur in the wind:
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And in the midst of this wide ...

They Just Stole Another Word From Us

From the Tom Woods Letter:

I know there are more important things in the world, but sometimes you get a bee in your bonnet and there’s nothing you can do about it.

Mine is an email I received from Harvard this weekend.

In particular, it was an invitation for me to visit Adams House, my upperclass house, after years of renovations.

A little background: before Harvard made the dumb decision to assign students randomly to the various upperclass houses, you used to be able to submit your preferences...

Rules and Sanctions: Boundary between Freedom and Despotism

Total government spending in the American Colonies took away just 1% to 2% of GDP. In the USA through 1913, apart from during major wars, spending took away just 3% to 8% of GNP. Now, spending takes away 43% of GDP.

National-government regulations alone now take away another 8% of GDP.

The quantity of money was inflated by congressmen and presidents using their new Fed throughout the 1920s, causing the 1929–1945 Great Depression. Double that money inflation caused the 1970s Great Inflation, and ...

The Truth About The Jews, The Christians, and The Palestinians

This article might offend everybody, but the links here are to the sources, and all of its sources are not only authentic when they are primary, but are true when they are secondary. (I have checked-out all sources within each secondary source that I link to.) Individuals who disagree with something here but don’t click onto the link to the documentation when they disagree, are not open-minded; and, for me, the first obligation is to be constantly open-minded, because only in that way can truths...

All Warnings Have Come True!

Even some of our brightest scientific minds are projecting that there is absolutely no positive future for our civilization if we stay on our current course.  Perhaps one of the reasons why our society has become so obsessed with short-term results is because most of us can’t bear to think about the long-term consequences of our actions.  I have a website that focuses on “economic collapse”, but it isn’t just the economy that is headed for catastrophe.  Virtually every aspect of our society is c...

The Trumpified GOP’s Great Big Ugly Debt Bomb

When it comes to the Donald’s Big Beautiful Bill there is one place, and one place alone, to start the discussion. We are referring, of course, to the built-in baseline of revenues, outlays and deficits under current Federal law and policy.

Needless to say, the latest CBO baseline amounts to a five-alarm dumpster fire. If Congress does nothing about entitlements, tax law or current funding policy for defense and nondefense discretionary programs, the annual Federal deficit will reach nearly $3 t...

First Signs We’ll Soon Be Eating Depression-Era Foods

I remember my grandma’s stories about the Great Depression – tales of scraping by on whatever food they could get their hands on.

Never thought I’d see anything like that in my lifetime. But lately? I’m not so sure.

“Out of stock.”

Three words that have become my grocery store nemesis. From sriracha to baby formula, it seems like nothing is sacred anymore.

My veggie patch which started as a pandemic project, is now my edible insurance policy.

With food prices doing the cha-cha skyward, it got me...

Christian Just War Theory: A Human Absurdity and a Possible Eternal Tragedy

If Jesus, God Incarnate, is not the ultimate norm for moral conduct for a Christian, who or what is? All Christian just warists, regardless of their status or standing in the Church or in the world, believe and proclaim that it is Jesus, who is with them, who tells them individually that it is okay to pull the trigger that discharges the bullet that rips off some other human being’s head.  For all Christian just warists, it is Jesus who ultimately says to the Christian, albeit through the minist...

Ukraine Negotiations Still Hover Around Its Root Cause

The most important sentence from President Trump about yesterday’s phone call between President Putin and him is this:

Russia and Ukraine will immediately start negotiations toward a Ceasefire and, more importantly, an END to the War. The conditions for that will be negotiated between the two parties, as it can only be, because they know details of a negotiation that nobody else would be aware of.

The most important sentence by President Putin about yesterday’s phone call is this:

Notably, Russi...

US Imperialists Slow Down the Trumpist Revolution

Many journalists pretend not to understand what’s going on in Washington. For them, Elon Musk and Donald Trump are appropriating what they can from the federal government without changing anything. The reality is quite different: the President of the United States is trying to dismantle his country’s imperialism. He is destroying the agencies, both secret and public, that, under various pretexts, legally finance those who implement color revolutions and other coups d’état.

President Donald Trump...