Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr.

Articles

12/17/2024 Power & Market Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr.

The recent murder of Brian Thompson, the CEO of United Health Care, has led many people to claim that private health insurance is an example of what is wrong with the free market, and that we ought in...

Hunter Biden Is Evil—and So Is Joe

12/11/2024 Power & Market Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr.

The unusually extensive “pardon” by lame-duck “President” Biden has been much in the news lately, but the pardon is not the main issue we should be interested in. The real issue is that the Bidens...

Why Naomi Wolf Is Great

12/03/2024 Power & Market Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr.

Naomi Wolf is a truly heroic figure, and the publication of her great book The Pfizer Papers: Pfizer’s Crimes Against Humanity makes her heroic stature even more evident than it was before. I’m not...

Publications

Economics and Moral Courage

12/21/2022 Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr.

Lew Rockwell gave this talk, sponsored by the Future of Freedom Foundation and the George Mason University Economics Club, at George Mason University on September 9, 2009.

Keep US Out of War

04/07/2022 Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr.

Events in Ukraine are happening very fast, and if I tried to predict what will happen there, my prediction would soon be overtaken by events. But one thing is certain. We need to understand the background of the crisis, and we also need to remember

Against the Left

03/24/2020 Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr.

Against the Left explores something basic to libertarianism that many people today have forgotten. As everyone knows, libertarians view the State and the individual as fundamentally opposed. People who freely interact in the market create on their

Media

The Menace of the State

11/05/2024 Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr.

The election is upon us. We wonder whether we have to have war, tariffs, and deficit spending, regardless of whom we support. What are we to do?

The Reality of Red-State Fascism

11/01/2024 Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr.

The sweep of history shows that there are two main dangers to liberty, one that comes from the left and the other that comes from the right.

Ludwig von Mises, Hero

10/29/2024 Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr.

“In 1988, Murray Rothbard wrote a great monograph called Ludwig von Mises: Scholar, Creator, Hero. I'd like to concentrate today on the third of the qualities, Mises as a hero.”

The Mises Institute is a non-profit organization that exists to promote teaching and research in the Austrian School of economics, individual freedom, honest history, and international peace, in the tradition of Ludwig von Mises and Murray N. Rothbard.

Non-political, non-partisan, and non-PC, we advocate a radical shift in the intellectual climate, away from statism and toward a private property order. We believe that our foundational ideas are of permanent value, and oppose all efforts at compromise, sellout, and amalgamation of these ideas with fashionable political, cultural, and social doctrines inimical to their spirit.