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Still totally an anarchist, though.</div></div></div> <table class="infobox" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="0" style="float: right; margin: 0 0 0.5em 0.5em; text-align:left; border: 1px solid #000000; width:175px;"> <tbody><tr> <td style="font-size: 95%; text-align:center; color:#FFFFFF; background-color:#000000"><b>It's not <a href="/wiki/Anarchy" title="Anarchy"><span style="color:white;">anarchy</span></a>, it's</b><br /><a href="/wiki/Anarchism" title="Anarchism"><font size="4" color="#FFFFFF"><b>Anarchism</b></font></a> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="background-color:#FFFFFF;" align="center"><a href="/wiki/Category:Anarchism" title="Category:Anarchism"><img alt="Icon Anarchism.svg" src="/w/images/thumb/9/9b/Icon_Anarchism.svg/100px-Icon_Anarchism.svg.png" decoding="async" width="100" height="100" srcset="/w/images/thumb/9/9b/Icon_Anarchism.svg/150px-Icon_Anarchism.svg.png 1.5x, /w/images/thumb/9/9b/Icon_Anarchism.svg/200px-Icon_Anarchism.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="200" data-file-height="200" /></a> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="font-size: 95%; color:#FFFFFF; background-color:#000000; text-align:center;"><b>Smash the state</b> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="font-size: 95%; background-color:#FFFFFF;"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Pyotr_Kropotkin" title="Pyotr Kropotkin">Pyotr Kropotkin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Zerzan" title="John Zerzan">John Zerzan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Edward_Abbey" title="Edward Abbey">Edward Abbey</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Emma_Goldman" title="Emma Goldman">Emma Goldman</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vermin_Supreme" title="Vermin Supreme">Vermin Supreme</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Murray_Rothbard" title="Murray Rothbard">Murray Rothbard</a></li></ul> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="font-size: 95%; color:#FFFFFF; background-color:#000000; text-align:center;"><b>Domestic terrorists?</b> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="font-size: 95%; background-color:#FFFFFF;"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Industrial_Workers_of_the_World" title="Industrial Workers of the World">The IWW</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Direct_action" title="Direct action">Direct action</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Antifascist_Action" title="Antifascist Action">Antifascist Action</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Freeman_on_the_land" title="Freeman on the land">Freeman on the land</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Earth_Liberation_Front" title="Earth Liberation Front">Earth Liberation Front</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Animal_Liberation_Front" title="Animal Liberation Front">Animal Liberation Front</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Earth_First!" title="Earth First!">Earth First!</a></li></ul> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="font-size: 95%; color:#FFFFFF; background-color:#000000; text-align:center;"><b>I'm not a fascist, I like...</b> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="font-size: 95%; background-color:#FFFFFF;"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Anarcho-capitalism" title="Anarcho-capitalism">Anarcho-capitalism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anarcho-primitivism" class="mw-redirect" title="Anarcho-primitivism">Anarcho-primitivism</a></li></ul> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="font-size: 95%; color:#FFFFFF; background-color:#000000; text-align:center;"><b>Actually fascism is cool</b> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="font-size: 95%; background-color:#FFFFFF;"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/National_anarchism" title="National anarchism">National anarchism</a></li></ul> <div class="vte plainlinks" style="font-size:smaller; text-align:center;"><a href="/wiki/Template:Anarchism" title="Template:Anarchism">v</a> - <a href="/wiki/Template_talk:Anarchism" title="Template talk:Anarchism">t</a> - <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://rationalwiki.org/w/index.php?title=Template:Anarchism&action=edit">e</a></div> </td></tr></tbody></table> <table style="margin: auto; border-collapse:collapse; border-style:none; background-color:transparent;" class="cquote"> <tbody><tr> <td><div style="padding:4px 50px;position:relative;"><span style="position:absolute;left:10px;top:-6px;z-index:1;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-weight:bold;color:#B2B7F2;font-size:36px">“</span><span style="position:absolute;right:10px;bottom:-20px;z-index:1;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-weight:bold;color:#B2B7F2;font-size:36px">”</span><a href="/wiki/James_Buchanan" title="James Buchanan">James Buchanan</a> made a great statement on behalf of the <a href="/wiki/American_Civil_War" title="American Civil War">right of revolution</a>. <a href="/wiki/Ulysses_S._Grant" title="Ulysses S. Grant">Grant</a> restored the <a href="/wiki/Gold_standard" title="Gold standard">gold standard</a>. <a href="/wiki/Warren_G._Harding" title="Warren G. Harding">Harding</a> denounced US <a href="/wiki/Imperialism" title="Imperialism">imperialism</a> in <a href="/wiki/Haiti" title="Haiti">Haiti</a>. But overall, my favorite president is William Henry Harrison. He keeled over shortly after his inauguration.</div> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="padding:4px 10px 8px;font-size:smaller;line-height:1.6em;text-align:right;"><cite style="font-style:normal;position:relative;z-index:2">—Rockwell in 1996<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1">[1]</a></sup></cite> </td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Llewellyn Harrison "Lew" Rockwell, Jr.</b> ("Rocky"<sup id="cite_ref-dallek_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-dallek-2">[2]</a></sup><sup class="reference" style="white-space:nowrap;">:304n27</sup>) (1944–) is an <a href="/wiki/Anarcho-capitalism" title="Anarcho-capitalism">anarcho-capitalist</a> <a href="/wiki/Libertarian" class="mw-redirect" title="Libertarian">libertarian</a> writer, activist, and founder and former president of the <a href="/wiki/Ludwig_von_Mises_Institute" title="Ludwig von Mises Institute">Ludwig von Mises Institute</a> (he stepped down as president in 2009 but remains as a chairman). Despite a less-than-sterling record of confronting <a href="/wiki/Racism" title="Racism">racism</a> and the downright dubious company he keeps, no one has yet had the audacity to call him a <a href="/wiki/White_supremacy" title="White supremacy">white supremacist</a> and let him know his so-called <a href="/wiki/Austrian_school" title="Austrian school">praxeology</a> "solution" for fixing the economy is basically <a href="/wiki/Fascism" title="Fascism">fascism</a> with bad bow ties instead of jackboots. <sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3">[3]</a></sup> </p><p>Rockwell is a lifetime member of the <a href="/wiki/John_Birch_Society" title="John Birch Society">John Birch Society</a>, and at one time worked in their "Members Monthly Message Department". He resigned after a supervisor called his work "sloppy… lacks imagination". He later worked as a writer for <a href="/wiki/Ron_Paul" title="Ron Paul">Ron Paul</a>, authoring most of the anti-Black and homophobic articles in <i>Ron Paul Survival Report</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-dallek_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-dallek-2">[2]</a></sup><sup class="reference" style="white-space:nowrap;">:254-255,304n27</sup> </p> <div id="toc" class="toc" role="navigation" aria-labelledby="mw-toc-heading"><input type="checkbox" role="button" id="toctogglecheckbox" class="toctogglecheckbox" style="display:none" /><div class="toctitle" lang="en" dir="ltr"><h2 id="mw-toc-heading">Contents</h2><span class="toctogglespan"><label class="toctogglelabel" for="toctogglecheckbox"></label></span></div> <ul> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1"><a href="#Politics"><span class="tocnumber">1</span> <span class="toctext">Politics</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2"><a href="#The_.28sometimes.29_good_stuff"><span class="tocnumber">2</span> <span class="toctext">The (sometimes) good stuff</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-3"><a href="#Woo_promotion_and_other_dubiousness"><span class="tocnumber">3</span> <span class="toctext">Woo promotion and other dubiousness</span></a> <ul> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-4"><a href="#Ron_Paul_newsletters"><span class="tocnumber">3.1</span> <span class="toctext">Ron Paul newsletters</span></a></li> </ul> </li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-5"><a href="#The_cherry_on_top"><span class="tocnumber">4</span> <span class="toctext">The cherry on top</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-6"><a href="#See_also"><span class="tocnumber">5</span> <span class="toctext">See also</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-7"><a href="#External_links"><span class="tocnumber">6</span> <span class="toctext">External links</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-8"><a href="#References"><span class="tocnumber">7</span> <span class="toctext">References</span></a></li> </ul> </div> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Politics">Politics</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Lew_Rockwell&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Politics">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2> <p>Rockwell is a hardline libertarian who often attacks the <a href="/wiki/Cato_Institute" title="Cato Institute">Cato-types</a> as "<a href="/wiki/Beltway_libertarians" class="mw-redirect" title="Beltway libertarians">Beltway libertarians</a>" (and he in return is often derided as <a href="/wiki/No_True_Scotsman" title="No True Scotsman">not a true libertarian</a>). He was a close associate of <a href="/wiki/Murray_Rothbard" title="Murray Rothbard">Murray Rothbard</a>, which should explain things. The slogan of his website, lewrockwell.com (LRC), is "anti-<a href="/wiki/State" title="State">state</a>, anti-<a href="/wiki/War" title="War">war</a>, pro-market," and he means it. Any deviation is seen as a betrayal of the libertarian movement. Rockwell is stuck in the unenviable position of being part of a movement associated with libertine morality and being a social <a href="/wiki/Conservative" class="mw-redirect" title="Conservative">conservative</a>. Because Rockwell supports policies that would let people smoke <a href="/wiki/Marijuana" class="mw-redirect" title="Marijuana">doobies</a> while screwing <a href="/wiki/Prostitute" class="mw-redirect" title="Prostitute">hookers</a>, but actually opposes these acts, he coined the term "paleo-libertarian" to distance himself from the rest of the movement. Rockwell defines his brand of libertarianism: </p> <table style="margin: auto; border-collapse:collapse; border-style:none; background-color:transparent;" class="cquote"> <tbody><tr> <td><div style="padding:4px 50px;position:relative;"><span style="position:absolute;left:10px;top:-6px;z-index:1;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-weight:bold;color:#B2B7F2;font-size:36px">“</span><span style="position:absolute;right:10px;bottom:-20px;z-index:1;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-weight:bold;color:#B2B7F2;font-size:36px">”</span>Paleolibertarianism holds with Lord Acton that <a href="/wiki/Liberty" title="Liberty">liberty</a> is the highest political end of man, and that all forms of government intervention — economic, cultural, social, international — amount to an attack on prosperity, morals, and <a href="/wiki/Bourgeois" class="mw-redirect" title="Bourgeois">bourgeois</a> civilization itself, and thus must be opposed at all levels and without compromise. It is "paleo" because of its genesis in… [the] interwar Old Right that opposed the <a href="/wiki/New_Deal" title="New Deal">New Deal</a> and favored the Old Republic of <a href="/wiki/Property" title="Property">property</a> rights, freedom of association, and radical political decentralization. Just as important, paleolibertarianism predates the politicization of libertarianism… Instead of principle, the neo-libertarians give us political alliances; instead of intellectually robust ideas, they give us marketable platitudes. What's more, paleolibertarianism distinguishes itself from left-libertarianism because it has made its peace with <a href="/wiki/Religion" title="Religion">religion</a> as the bedrock of liberty, property, and the natural order.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4">[4]</a></sup></div> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <p>There is a heavy overlap between writers at Rockwell's site and the von Mises Institute, so you'll get a lot of recycled material. There are some actual <a href="/wiki/Austrian_school" title="Austrian school">Austrian</a> economists like <a href="/wiki/Thomas_DiLorenzo" title="Thomas DiLorenzo">Tom DiLorenzo</a>, <a href="/wiki/Walter_Block" title="Walter Block">Walter Block</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Peter_Schiff" class="mw-redirect" title="Peter Schiff">Peter Schiff</a> (of course) writing there, so the site is rife with <a href="/wiki/Gold_standard_(economics)" title="Gold standard (economics)">gold buggery</a>. There's massive amounts of legal history (real and <a href="/wiki/Pseudohistory" title="Pseudohistory">pseudo</a>), much of it dealing with Constitutional <a href="/wiki/Originalism" title="Originalism">originalism</a>. They also hate <a href="/wiki/Abraham_Lincoln" title="Abraham Lincoln">Abraham Lincoln</a>, <a href="/wiki/Franklin_Roosevelt" class="mw-redirect" title="Franklin Roosevelt">Franklin Roosevelt</a> (along with almost all 20<sup>th</sup> century Presidents aside from <a href="/wiki/Warren_G._Harding" title="Warren G. Harding">Warren G. Harding</a> and <a href="/wiki/Calvin_Coolidge" title="Calvin Coolidge">Calvin Coolidge</a>), and <a href="/wiki/Alexander_Hamilton" title="Alexander Hamilton">Alexander Hamilton</a>. </p><p>It's funny how 10 years ago, LvMI and Lew Rockwell were all supremely anti-<a href="/wiki/Putin" class="mw-redirect" title="Putin">Putin</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5">[5]</a></sup> but then <a href="/wiki/Alt-right" title="Alt-right">something</a> changed. They started laying it on thick around 2014.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6">[6]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7">[7]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8">[8]</a></sup> (They were literally calling him "Comrade Putin".)<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9">[9]</a></sup> In fact, Rockwell himself was on <a href="/wiki/RT" title="RT">RT</a> insisting that <a href="/wiki/Jeff_Sessions" title="Jeff Sessions">Jeff Sessions</a>, who <a href="/wiki/Perjury" title="Perjury">perjured</a> himself when questioned about a meeting with <a href="/wiki/Russian" class="mw-redirect" title="Russian">Russian</a> ambassador Kislyak, is innocent.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10">[10]</a></sup> His support for Trump is easier to explain: Rockwell and his mentor Rothbard both endorsed <a href="/wiki/Pat_Buchanan" title="Pat Buchanan">Pat Buchanan</a> for President in 1992. Buchanan is another hyper-<a href="/wiki/Nationalist" class="mw-redirect" title="Nationalist">nationalist</a> <a href="/wiki/Bigot" class="mw-redirect" title="Bigot">bigot</a> with an economic agenda that is the polar opposite of libertarian values. LRC has a banner that reads "anti-state, anti-war, pro-market". Trump is definitely <i>pro</i>-state and <i>pro</i>-war, but only a little bit pro-market (when it suits him). </p> <h2><span id="The_(sometimes)_good_stuff"></span><span class="mw-headline" id="The_.28sometimes.29_good_stuff">The (sometimes) good stuff</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Lew_Rockwell&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: The (sometimes) good stuff">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2> <div role="note" class="hatnote">See the main article on this topic: <a href="/wiki/Stopped_clock" title="Stopped clock">Stopped clock</a></div> <p>Rockwell promotes such vehement opposition to war he puts to shame even the <a href="/wiki/Moonbat" title="Moonbat">moonbats</a>. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cindy_Sheehan" class="extiw" title="wp:Cindy Sheehan" rel="nofollow"><span style="color:#477979 !important;" title="Wikipedia: Cindy Sheehan">Cindy Sheehan</span></a><sup><img alt="" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/12px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png" decoding="async" width="12" height="12" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/18px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/24px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="128" data-file-height="128" /></sup> was even once a regular writer for his website.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11">[11]</a></sup> The site frequently features writing critical of the militarism rampant in U.S. culture, a position once mainstream among <a href="/wiki/Left-wing" class="mw-redirect" title="Left-wing">left-wingers</a> in the wake of the <a href="/wiki/Vietnam_War" title="Vietnam War">Vietnam War</a>, but since left-of-center progressives dropped the ball on this issue back in the 1980s to early 1990s in favor of trying to out-right the right in ritual military/veteran worship, at least give Rockwell credit where credit is due for trying to out-left the left in opposing it. </p><p>Anti-war writings — including such topics as counter-recruitment usually associated with the <a href="/wiki/Pacifist" class="mw-redirect" title="Pacifist">pacifist</a> left — and related opposition to <a href="/wiki/Security_theater" title="Security theater">security theater</a> and other aspects of the "<a href="/wiki/War_on_terror" class="mw-redirect" title="War on terror">war on terror</a>" are the main topic of several regular writers on the site such as Laurence Vance,<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12">[12]</a></sup> Butler Shaffer,<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13">[13]</a></sup> and Becky Akers.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14">[14]</a></sup> </p><p>This even extends to criticism of U.S. involvement in the <a href="/wiki/American_Civil_War" title="American Civil War">American Civil War</a> and <a href="/wiki/World_War_II" title="World War II">World War II</a>, areas where even the left is hesitant to venture. However, proving the old adage<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15">[15]</a></sup> that putting principle over <a href="/wiki/Reality" title="Reality">reality</a> in every case no matter what can still lead into batshit crazy territory, they sometimes run articles by <a href="/wiki/Pearl_Harbor_conspiracy_theory" title="Pearl Harbor conspiracy theory">Pearl Harbor conspiracy theorists</a><sup id="cite_ref-pearl-harbor-conspiracy1_16-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-pearl-harbor-conspiracy1-16">[16]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-pearl-harbor-conspiracy2_17-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-pearl-harbor-conspiracy2-17">[17]</a></sup> and <a href="/wiki/Neo-Confederate" title="Neo-Confederate">neo-Confederates</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18">[18]</a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/Koch_Industries" title="Koch Industries">Koch Industries</a> and anyone associated with or funded by them are considered the arch-nemesis of True Libertarianism by Rockwell, so the site runs a lot of criticism of the Kochs. This is just a continuation of the old feud between Ed Crane and Murray Rothbard that had its roots in Ed Clark's 1980 presidential campaign on the Libertarian Party ticket,<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19">[19]</a></sup> but it means Rockwell may on the one hand make common cause with left-progressives in publishing criticism of the "Kochtopus", and on the other hand allow this feud to override other issues. His libertarian ecumenism may include all manner of <a href="/wiki/Paleoconservative" class="mw-redirect" title="Paleoconservative">paleoconservatives</a> and remnants of the <a href="/wiki/New_Left" title="New Left">New Left</a>, but it does not include the <a href="/wiki/Cato_Institute" title="Cato Institute">Cato Institute</a> or <i><a href="/wiki/Reason_(magazine)" title="Reason (magazine)">Reason</a></i>. </p><p>The site also takes the usual libertarian positions in favor of the legalization of marijuana and drugs, <a href="/wiki/Civil_liberties" class="mw-redirect" title="Civil liberties">civil liberties</a>, and against <a href="/wiki/Police" class="mw-redirect" title="Police">police</a> abuses and incarceration and surveillance overkill by the state. This is unfortunately mixed with a cranky social conservatism in which one may find <a href="/wiki/Anti-abortion" class="mw-redirect" title="Anti-abortion">anti-abortion</a>, <a href="/wiki/Homophobic" class="mw-redirect" title="Homophobic">homophobic</a>, or anti-<a href="/wiki/Porn" class="mw-redirect" title="Porn">porn</a> views; indeed, the site's opposition to body scanners in U.S. airports emphasizes the "pornography" angle rather than strictly opposing them on civil liberties principles alone. Also, the anti-<a href="/wiki/Police_brutality" title="Police brutality">police brutality</a> stance the site takes today was not always the case as anyone familiar with the old <i>Rothbard-Rockwell Report</i> days knows.<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20">[20]</a></sup> Give them credit for evolving on that issue. One hopes they will one day similarly evolve out of their <a href="/wiki/Woo" title="Woo">woo</a>-promotion and the tendency to pal around with neo-Confederates and <a href="/wiki/Dominionism" title="Dominionism">Christian dominionists</a>. </p> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Woo_promotion_and_other_dubiousness">Woo promotion and other dubiousness</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Lew_Rockwell&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Woo promotion and other dubiousness">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2> <p>Rockwell might be something like a libertarian <a href="/wiki/Huffington_Post" class="mw-redirect" title="Huffington Post">Arianna Huffington</a>, promoting all kinds of <a href="/wiki/Woo" title="Woo">woo</a> generally associated with <a href="/wiki/Wingnut" title="Wingnut">wingnuttery</a> instead of <a href="/wiki/Moonbat" title="Moonbat">moonbattery</a>. Rockwell's site is a hotbed of <a href="/wiki/Global_warming" class="mw-redirect" title="Global warming">global warming</a> <a href="/wiki/Denialism" title="Denialism">denialism</a>, and his writers <i>really</i> love the "<a href="/wiki/Environmentalism" title="Environmentalism">environmentalists</a> are <a href="/wiki/Racist" class="mw-redirect" title="Racist">racists</a>" trope<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21">[21]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22">[22]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-pseudoscienceLR_23-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-pseudoscienceLR-23">[23]</a></sup> (possibly a case of weapons-grade <a href="/wiki/Psychological_projection" title="Psychological projection">projection</a> there). He published articles claiming that <a href="/wiki/Anti-relativity" title="Anti-relativity">the theory of relativity is a lie</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24">[24]</a></sup> Rockwell also loves his <a href="/wiki/Paleo_diet" title="Paleo diet">paleo diet</a>, <a href="/wiki/Raw_milk" class="mw-redirect" title="Raw milk">raw milk</a>, <a href="/wiki/Barefoot_running" title="Barefoot running">barefoot running</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Coconut_oil" title="Coconut oil">coconut oil</a>. He often runs articles by the seriously suspect <a href="/wiki/Joseph_Mercola" title="Joseph Mercola">Joseph Mercola</a> and other <a href="/wiki/Altie" class="mw-redirect" title="Altie">alties</a> promoting these and other various <a href="/wiki/Snake_oil" title="Snake oil">snake oils</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25">[25]</a></sup> The site has also featured some articles on <a href="/wiki/AIDS_denialism" class="mw-redirect" title="AIDS denialism">AIDS denialism</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26">[26]</a></sup> He has a broadly conspiratorial mindset.<sup id="cite_ref-pearl-harbor-conspiracy1_16-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-pearl-harbor-conspiracy1-16">[16]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-pearl-harbor-conspiracy2_17-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-pearl-harbor-conspiracy2-17">[17]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27">[27]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28">[28]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29">[29]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30">[30]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31">[31]</a></sup> He has also favored the elimination of drunk driving laws, claiming that they discriminate against drunkards. His site has been rated as a questionable source by <a href="/wiki/Media_Bias/Fact_Check" title="Media Bias/Fact Check">Media Bias/Fact Check</a> with extreme bias and mixed factual rating.<sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-32">[32]</a></sup> </p><p>The site is also a platform for religious zealots like <a href="/wiki/Gary_North" title="Gary North">Gary North</a>. Rockwell himself is a <a href="/wiki/Catholic" class="mw-redirect" title="Catholic">Catholic</a>, but allows batshit crazy Christian Dominionists like North to write for his site. This includes support for <a href="/wiki/Creationism" title="Creationism">creationism</a> or "criticisms" of <a href="/wiki/Evolution" title="Evolution">evolution</a> (depending on the columnist).<sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-33">[33]</a></sup> </p> <h3><span class="mw-headline" id="Ron_Paul_newsletters">Ron Paul newsletters</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Lew_Rockwell&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Ron Paul newsletters">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h3> <p>The kerfuffle over Ron Paul's racist newsletters led to accusations that Rockwell had ghost-written the newsletters. Rockwell dismissed this as a smear by his political enemies. Here is one take from <i>The Economist</i>: </p> <table style="margin: auto; border-collapse:collapse; border-style:none; background-color:transparent;" class="cquote"> <tbody><tr> <td><div style="padding:4px 50px;position:relative;"><span style="position:absolute;left:10px;top:-6px;z-index:1;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-weight:bold;color:#B2B7F2;font-size:36px">“</span><span style="position:absolute;right:10px;bottom:-20px;z-index:1;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-weight:bold;color:#B2B7F2;font-size:36px">”</span>Mr Rockwell denied authorship to Jamie Kirchick, the reporter whose New Republic article published earlier this week reignited controversy over the newsletters. But both Mr Rockwell (who attacked the New Republic article on his site) and Mr Tucker refused to discuss the matter with Democracy in America. ("Look at Mises.org," Mr Tucker told me, "I'm willing to take any responsibility for anything up there, OK?") According to Wirkman Virkkala, formerly the managing editor of the libertarian monthly Liberty, the racist and <a href="/wiki/Survivalist" class="mw-redirect" title="Survivalist">survivalist</a> elements that appeared in the newsletter were part of a deliberate "paleolibertarian" strategy, "a last gasp effort to try class hatred after the miserable showing of Ron Paul's 1988 presidential effort." It is impossible now to prove individual authorship of any particular item in the newsletter, but it is equally impossible to believe that Mr Rockwell did not know of and approve what was going into the newsletter.<sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-34">[34]</a></sup></div> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <p><i>Reason</i> also notes that other <a href="/wiki/Libertarian_Party" title="Libertarian Party">Libertarian Party</a> insiders were aware of the intentional use of <a href="/wiki/Southern_Strategy" title="Southern Strategy">Southern Strategy</a>-style tactics in the Rockwell-Rothbard "paleolibertarian" campaign.<sup id="cite_ref-35" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-35">[35]</a></sup> Rothbard and Rockwell became supporters of <a href="/wiki/Pat_Buchanan" title="Pat Buchanan">Pat Buchanan</a> in an attempt to build a <a href="/wiki/Populist" class="mw-redirect" title="Populist">populist</a>-libertarian coalition in the early 1990s until they decided Buchanan wasn't <a href="/wiki/Free_market" title="Free market">free market</a> enough for them.<sup id="cite_ref-36" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-36">[36]</a></sup> Former Paul staffer Eric Dondero has claimed that Paul wrote about half of the newsletters' content while Rockwell ghostwrote most of the rest of it.<sup id="cite_ref-37" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-37">[37]</a></sup> Some of Rockwell's writers have been found to have written openly racist material for other sites and publications as well and he seemed to have some admiration for the late Sam Francis, a well-known <a href="/wiki/White_supremacist" class="mw-redirect" title="White supremacist">white supremacist</a> and member of the <a href="/wiki/Council_of_Conservative_Citizens" title="Council of Conservative Citizens">Council of Conservative Citizens</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-38" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-38">[38]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-39" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-39">[39]</a></sup> His Neo-Confederate Mises Institute buddies <a href="/wiki/Thomas_DiLorenzo" title="Thomas DiLorenzo">Thomas DiLorenzo</a> and Thomas Woods often cross-post to his site. All of this put together is a little more than a tad suspicious. </p><p>But where else can you find columns tying together the <a href="/wiki/Federal_Reserve" title="Federal Reserve">Federal Reserve</a> and <a href="/wiki/Rap_music" class="mw-redirect" title="Rap music">rap music</a> giving kids <a href="/wiki/Brain" title="Brain">brain</a> damage as the primary causes of what's wrong with the world today?<sup id="cite_ref-40" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-40">[40]</a></sup> </p> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="The_cherry_on_top">The cherry on top</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Lew_Rockwell&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: The cherry on top">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2> <p>Despite claiming to support freedom of association, free markets and voluntaryism, Rockwell, like his former pal Rothbard, is for <a href="/wiki/Closed_borders" class="mw-redirect" title="Closed borders">closed borders</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-41" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-41">[41]</a></sup> Apparently Rockwell didn't get the memo that the stance makes it impossible to actually have his ideal <a href="/wiki/Anarcho-capitalism" title="Anarcho-capitalism">anarcho-capitalist</a> society or being taken seriously when claiming to advocate for such things. Actually consistent libertarians, such as Kevin Carson, have attempted to relay that memo to Rockwell though.<sup id="cite_ref-42" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-42">[42]</a></sup> </p> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="See_also">See also</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Lew_Rockwell&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: See also">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Sowell" title="Thomas Sowell">Thomas Sowell</a> — Nominally Libertarian, Sowell was never shy about playing <a href="/wiki/Uncle_Tom" title="Uncle Tom">Uncle Tom</a> for the <a href="/wiki/GOP" class="mw-redirect" title="GOP">GOP</a>.</li></ul> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="External_links">External links</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Lew_Rockwell&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: External links">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2> <ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.lewrockwell.com/">Rockwell's homepage</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.lewrockwell.com/author/lew-rockwell/">Rockwell's articles</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2009/12/14/lew-rockwell-website-warns-of-coming-us-civil-war/">Lew Rockwell's site warns of coming Civil War</a></li> <li>You can further follow the adventures of Rockwell and his merry gang at <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://tomgpalmer.com/category/the-fever-swamp/">the Fever Swamp section of Tom G. Palmer's blog</a> and the <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://rightwatch.tblog.com/">archives of the Right Watch blog.</a></li></ul> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="References">References</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Lew_Rockwell&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: References">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2> <div class="references-small" style="-moz-column-count:2; -webkit-column-count:2; column-count:2; font-size:80%;"> <div class="mw-references-wrap mw-references-columns"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-1">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240302041100/https://mises.org/mises-daily/down-presidency">Down with the Presidency</a> by Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr. (10/06/1996) <i>Mises Institute</i> (archived from March 2, 2024).</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-dallek-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">↑ <sup><a href="#cite_ref-dallek_2-0">2.0</a></sup> <sup><a href="#cite_ref-dallek_2-1">2.1</a></sup></span> <span class="reference-text"><i>Birchers: How the John Birch Society Radicalized the American Right</i> by Matthew Dallek (2023) Basic Books. ISBN 1541673565.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-3">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r2708880">/* Errors processing stylesheet [[:Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css]] (rev 2708880): • Invalid or unsupported value for property ⧼code⧽background⧼/code⧽ at line 44 character 14. • Invalid or unsupported value for property ⧼code⧽background⧼/code⧽ at line 50 character 14. • Invalid or unsupported value for property ⧼code⧽background⧼/code⧽ at line 55 character 14. • Invalid or unsupported value for property ⧼code⧽background⧼/code⧽ at line 64 character 14. • Invalid or unsupported value for property ⧼code⧽color⧼/code⧽ at line 96 character 9. • Invalid or unsupported value for property ⧼code⧽color⧼/code⧽ at line 100 character 9. • Invalid media query at line 138 character 8. */ .mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite id="CITEREFMarkonCrites2012" class="citation news cs1">Markon, Jerry; Crites, Alice (January 27, 2012). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/ron-paul-signed-off-on-racist-newsletters-sources-say/2012/01/20/gIQAvblFVQ_story.html">"Ron Paul signed off on racist 1990s newsletters, associates say"</a>. <i>Washington Post</i>. <a href="/wiki/ISSN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISSN (identifier)">ISSN</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://search.worldcat.org/issn/0190-8286">0190-8286</a>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230502183931/https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/ron-paul-signed-off-on-racist-newsletters-sources-say/2012/01/20/gIQAvblFVQ_story.html">Archived</a> from the original on May 2, 2023.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Washington+Post&rft.atitle=Ron+Paul+signed+off+on+racist+1990s+newsletters%2C+associates+say&rft.date=2012-01-27&rft.issn=0190-8286&rft.aulast=Markon&rft.aufirst=Jerry&rft.au=Crites%2C+Alice&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fpolitics%2Fron-paul-signed-off-on-racist-newsletters-sources-say%2F2012%2F01%2F20%2FgIQAvblFVQ_story.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Frationalwiki.org%3ALew+Rockwell" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-4">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://libertapedia.org/wiki/Paleolibertarianism">Libertapedia entry for Paleolibertarianism</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-5">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">Maltsev, Yuri, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.lewrockwell.com/2006/10/yuri-n-maltsev/happy-birthday-mr-putin/">"Happy Birthday, Mr. Putin!"</a>, LewRockwell.com 10.10.06.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-6">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">Roberts, Paul Graig, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.lewrockwell.com/2014/06/paul-craig-roberts/is-putin-trying-to-save-the-world-from-war/">"Can Putin's Diplomacy Prevail Over Washington's Coercion?"</a>, LewRockwell.com 6.26.14.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-7"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-7">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">Margolis, Eric, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.lewrockwell.com/2015/10/eric-margolis/can-putin-checkmate-the-empire/">"Putin Moves His Rook into Syria - Can Putin Checkmate the Empire?"</a>, LewRockwell.com 10.45.15.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-8"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-8">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">Engdahl, William F., <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.lewrockwell.com/2015/05/no_author/putin-is-telling-the-truth/">"What if Putin is Telling the Truth?"</a>, LewRockwell.com 5.25.15.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-9"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-9">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">Barnhart, Sabine, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.lewrockwell.com/2006/05/sabine-barnhart/hausfraunomics/">Hausfrau Economics vs. Central Planning</a>, LewRockell.com 5.26.06.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-10"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-10">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://straightlinelogic.com/2017/03/04/sessions-scandal-us-heading-to-constitutional-crisis-by-lew-rockwell/">Transcript</a> of "Sessions Scandal: US Heading to Constitutional Crisis", via Robert Gore 5.4.17.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-11"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-11">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">No, really. Here's the <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.lewrockwell.com/author/cindy-sheehan/">archive of her columns</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-12"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-12">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.lewrockwell.com/author/laurence-m-vance/">Laurence Vance archive</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-13"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-13">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer-arch.html">Butler Shaffer archive</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-14"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-14">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.lewrockwell.com/author/becky-akers/">Becky Akers archive</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-15"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-15">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">Okay, so it's not old or an adage, but it should be.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-pearl-harbor-conspiracy1-16"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">↑ <sup><a href="#cite_ref-pearl-harbor-conspiracy1_16-0">16.0</a></sup> <sup><a href="#cite_ref-pearl-harbor-conspiracy1_16-1">16.1</a></sup></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r2708880"/><cite id="CITEREFRobert_B._Stinnett" class="citation web cs1">Robert B. Stinnett. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://archive.lewrockwell.com/orig/stinnett1.html">"December 7, 1941... a Day of Deceit"</a><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">2016-02-08</span></span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=December+7%2C+1941...+a+Day+of+Deceit&rft.au=Robert+B.+Stinnett&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Farchive.lewrockwell.com%2Forig%2Fstinnett1.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Frationalwiki.org%3ALew+Rockwell" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-pearl-harbor-conspiracy2-17"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">↑ <sup><a href="#cite_ref-pearl-harbor-conspiracy2_17-0">17.0</a></sup> <sup><a href="#cite_ref-pearl-harbor-conspiracy2_17-1">17.1</a></sup></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r2708880"/><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://mises.org/library/pearl-harbor-story-secret-war">"Pearl Harbor: The Story of the Secret War"</a><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">2016-02-08</span></span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Pearl+Harbor%3A+The+Story+of+the+Secret+War&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fmises.org%2Flibrary%2Fpearl-harbor-story-secret-war&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Frationalwiki.org%3ALew+Rockwell" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-18"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-18">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://archive.lewrockwell.com/wilson/wilson12.html">Here's a real doozie: "The Yankee Problem in America" by Clyde Wilson.</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-19"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-19">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">A topic already covered to death in most histories of the libertarian movement. For the most detail see Brian Doherty, <i>Radicals for Capitalism: A Freewheeling History of the Modern Libertarian Movement</i>, PublicAffairs, 2007; and Justin Raimondo, <i>An Enemy of the State: The Life of Murray N. Rothbard</i>, <a href="/wiki/Prometheus_Books" title="Prometheus Books">Prometheus Books</a>, 2000</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-20"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-20">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.lewrockwell.com/rothbard/ir/Ch5.html">Rothbard's all-time career low</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-21"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-21">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r2708880"/><cite id="CITEREFDavid_Deming2009" class="citation web cs1">David Deming (2009-06-29). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.lewrockwell.com/2009/06/david-deming/global-warming-is-a-fraud">"Global Warming is a Fraud"</a><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">2016-02-08</span></span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Global+Warming+is+a+Fraud&rft.date=2009-06-29&rft.au=David+Deming&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.lewrockwell.com%2F2009%2F06%2Fdavid-deming%2Fglobal-warming-is-a-fraud&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Frationalwiki.org%3ALew+Rockwell" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-22"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-22">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r2708880"/><cite id="CITEREFEric_Englund2008" class="citation web cs1">Eric Englund (2008-10-21). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.lewrockwell.com/2008/10/eric-englund/environmentalism-is-racism">"Environmentalism is Racism"</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Environmentalism+is+Racism&rft.date=2008-10-21&rft.au=Eric+Englund&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.lewrockwell.com%2F2008%2F10%2Feric-englund%2Fenvironmentalism-is-racism&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Frationalwiki.org%3ALew+Rockwell" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-pseudoscienceLR-23"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-pseudoscienceLR_23-0">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r2708880"/><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.lewrockwell.com/2008/03/donald-w-miller-jr-md/questioning-hivaids/">"Questioning HIV/AIDS, Human-Caused Global Warming, and Other Orthodoxies in the Biomedical Sciences"</a>. 2008-03-04<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">2016-02-08</span></span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Questioning+HIV%2FAIDS%2C+Human-Caused+Global+Warming%2C+and+Other+Orthodoxies+in+the+Biomedical+Sciences&rft.date=2008-03-04&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.lewrockwell.com%2F2008%2F03%2Fdonald-w-miller-jr-md%2Fquestioning-hivaids%2F&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Frationalwiki.org%3ALew+Rockwell" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-24"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-24">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r2708880"/><cite id="CITEREFTom_Bethell2011" class="citation web cs1">Tom Bethell (2011-02-28). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.lewrockwell.com/2011/02/tom-bethell/relativity-and-the-priesthood-of-science/">"Relativity and the Priesthood of Science"</a><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">2016-02-08</span></span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Relativity+and+the+Priesthood+of+Science&rft.date=2011-02-28&rft.au=Tom+Bethell&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.lewrockwell.com%2F2011%2F02%2Ftom-bethell%2Frelativity-and-the-priesthood-of-science%2F&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Frationalwiki.org%3ALew+Rockwell" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-25"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-25">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">Mercola peddling his quackery: <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.lewrockwell.com/2011/09/joseph-mercola/7-reasons-to-eat-more-saturated-fat/">7 Reasons to Eat More Saturated Fats.</a> Yum!</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-26"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-26">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.lewrockwell.com/2008/03/donald-w-miller-jr-md/questioning-hivaids/">Articles promoting Peter Duesberg, among other quacks.</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-27"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-27">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r2708880"/><cite id="CITEREFLew_Rockwell2005" class="citation web cs1">Lew Rockwell (2005-01-27). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20050404140947/http://blog.lewrockwell.com/lewrw/archives/007260.html">"Can't Be Mentioned in Polite Company"</a><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">2016-02-08</span></span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Can%27t+Be+Mentioned+in+Polite+Company&rft.date=2005-01-27&rft.au=Lew+Rockwell&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fweb.archive.org%2Fweb%2F20050404140947%2Fhttp%3A%2F%2Fblog.lewrockwell.com%2Flewrw%2Farchives%2F007260.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Frationalwiki.org%3ALew+Rockwell" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-28"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-28">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r2708880"/><cite id="CITEREFMichael_Gaddy2009" class="citation web cs1">Michael Gaddy (2009-12-07). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20100209024027/http://www.lewrockwell.com/gaddy/gaddy75.1.html">"A Critical Decision"</a><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">2016-02-08</span></span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=A+Critical+Decision&rft.date=2009-12-07&rft.au=Michael+Gaddy&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fweb.archive.org%2Fweb%2F20100209024027%2Fhttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.lewrockwell.com%2Fgaddy%2Fgaddy75.1.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Frationalwiki.org%3ALew+Rockwell" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-29"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-29">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r2708880"/><cite id="CITEREFRuss_Baker2012" class="citation web cs1">Russ Baker (2012-04-13). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.lewrockwell.com/2012/04/russ-baker/someone-would-have-talked-someone-would-be-crazy/">"Someone Would Have Talked? Someone Would Be Crazy"</a><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">2016-02-08</span></span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Someone+Would+Have+Talked%3F+Someone+Would+Be+Crazy&rft.date=2012-04-13&rft.au=Russ+Baker&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.lewrockwell.com%2F2012%2F04%2Fruss-baker%2Fsomeone-would-have-talked-someone-would-be-crazy%2F&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Frationalwiki.org%3ALew+Rockwell" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-30"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-30">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r2708880"/><cite id="CITEREFRuss_Baker2012" class="citation web cs1">Russ Baker (2012-01-24). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.lewrockwell.com/2012/01/russ-baker/the-deaths-of-jfk-rfk-and-the-silence-of-the-lambs/">"The Deaths of JFK, RFK – and the Silence of the Lambs"</a><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">2016-02-08</span></span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=The+Deaths+of+JFK%2C+RFK+%E2%80%93+and+the+Silence+of+the+Lambs&rft.date=2012-01-24&rft.au=Russ+Baker&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.lewrockwell.com%2F2012%2F01%2Fruss-baker%2Fthe-deaths-of-jfk-rfk-and-the-silence-of-the-lambs%2F&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Frationalwiki.org%3ALew+Rockwell" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-31"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-31">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r2708880"/><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120301000957/http://www.lewrockwell.com/rothbard/ir/Ch57.html">"THE J.F.K. 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