Lewrockwell.com
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webmagazine |
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| Editor | Lew Rockwell |
| Website | lewrockwell |
| Alexa rank | 24,222 (Sept 2016[update]) |
| Launched | 1999 |
| Current status | active |
LewRockwell.com (LRC) is a libertarian website which states that its purpose is "to help carry on the anti-war, anti-state, pro-market work of Murray N. Rothbard." It was begun in 1999 by anarcho-capitalists Lew Rockwell and Burt Blumert as an affiliate of the nonprofit Center for Libertarian Studies. The site presents articles and blog entries by Lew Rockwell and other contributors as well as a weekly podcast called the Lew Rockwell Show. LRC's traffic rank was in the top 25,000 websites worldwide in September 2016, having previous been in the top 10,000 in May 2013.
The site states "Lew strives to present a diverse daily selection of interesting articles from our writers and other sites, but he does not necessarily endorse every view expressed. He does, however, believe that each piece will repay your reading." It has a number of contributors whose writings comport with the site's motto of "anti-war, anti-state, pro-market". Brian Doherty in Reason wrote that the "Mises Institute-associated writers… at LewRockwell.com… [tend to] to stress the various nightmarish problems and crises that government action creates, whether overseas or at home."
The site includes an archive of dozens of articles by Murray Rothbard, who was Rockwell's colleague at the Mises Institute and another which contains dozens more by and about Ron Paul.
Conservative writer Jonah Goldberg of National Review wrote that LewRockwell.com "features regular diatribes against National Review, neoconservatives, The Weekly Standard, William F. Buckley, and other icons of what most people consider mainstream conservatism in America". Writing in The American Conservative, W. James Antle III (of The American Spectator) described LRC as paleolibertarian and "an indispensable source of news about [Ron Paul's political campaign]."
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