Lew Rockwell
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| Born |
Llewellyn Harrison Rockwell, Jr. July 1, 1944 Boston, Massachusetts |
| Occupation | Political commentator, editor, blogger, podcaster, and former Congressional staffer |
| Spouse(s) | Mardelle Rockwell |
| Website | LewRockwell.com |
Llewellyn Harrison "Lew" Rockwell, Jr. (born July 1, 1944) is an American libertarian author and editor, self-professed anarcho-capitalist, a promoter of the Austrian School of economics, and founder and chairman of the Ludwig von Mises Institute.
Rockwell was born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1944. He is one-eighth Native American.
After college, Rockwell worked at Arlington House publishers and became acquainted with the works of Ludwig von Mises.
In the mid-1970s Rockwell worked at Hillsdale College in fundraising and public relations.
Rockwell met Murray Rothbard in 1975 and credits Rothbard with convincing him to abandon minarchism and reject the state completely.
Rockwell was Ron Paul's congressional chief of staff from 1978 to 1982 and was a consultant to Paul's 1988 Libertarian Party campaign for President of the United States. He was vice-chair of the exploratory committee for Paul's run for the 1992 Republican Party nomination for president.
In 1982, Rockwell founded the Ludwig von Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama and is currently its Chairman of the Board.
The Mises Institute published Rockwell's Speaking of Liberty, an anthology of editorials which were originally published on his website, along with transcripts from some of his speaking engagements.
In 1985, Rockwell was named a contributing editor to Conservative Digest. During the 1990s Rothbard, Rockwell and others described their views as paleolibertarian to emphasize their commitment to cultural conservatism, even as they continued to hold anti-statist beliefs. In a 2007 interview Rockwell revealed he no longer considered himself a "paleolibertarian" and was "happy with the term libertarian." He explained "the term paleolibertarian became confused because of its association with paleoconservative, so it came to mean some sort of socially conservative libertarian, which wasn't the point at all...."
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