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| Type of site | webmagazine |
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| Editor | Lew Rockwell |
| URL | lewrockwell |
| Commercial | 501(c)(4) organization |
| Launched | 1999; 25 years ago (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. On the advice of counsel, LRC separated in mid-2007 and become a 501(c)(4) organization so that it could continue to publish articles endorsing Ron Paul's 2008 presidential campaign. 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 10,000 websites worldwide in May 2013.
Content
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... 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.
Responses
Conservative writer Jonah Goldberg of the 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 ."
Seth Kalichman, author of Denying AIDS: Conspiracy Theories, Pseudoscience, and Human Tragedy, noted that LewRockwell.com presented articles advocating AIDS denialism, or the view that HIV doesn't cause AIDS. For instance, Kalichman detailed LRC's published former University of Texas at Tyler Math Professor Rebecca Culshaw's "denialist debut" article, "Why I quit HIV", in which she rejected the evidence that HIV causes AIDS. He also noted that AIDS denier Peter Duesberg made a presentation expressing his views on AIDS at a 2006 conference hosted by LewRockwell.com. LRC was also criticized for publishing the the claim that vaccines cause autism.
Contributors
Noted contributors listed by LewRockwell.com include:
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- * Indicates contributor also listed as a prominent LRC writer.
Other noted LRC writers include:
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References and notes
- ^ Alexa analyctics for LewRockwell.com, accessed May 12, 2013.
- Baedeker, Rob (February 25, 2008). "The gold standard: A precious metal that's not just an investment but a worldview too". San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved 2008-03-25.
- ^ About LewRockwell.com at LewRockwell.com website.
- Blumert, Burton (August 6, 2007). "Ron Paul Is a Big Problem". LewRockwell.com. Retrieved 2008-04-03.
- "The Ron Paul File". LewRockwell.com. Retrieved 2008-04-03.
- The LRC Blog at LewRockwell.com website
- Lew Rockwell Show podcast at LewRockwell.com.
- Doherty, Brian (February 16, 2009). "Libertarianism in an Age of Economic Crisis: Why being truculent, oppositional, and hard to pigeonhole are not signs of ideological death". Reason. Reason Foundation.
- Murray N. Rothbard Library and Resources at LewRockwell.com.
- The Ron Paul File at LewRockwell.com. In his 2011 book Liberty Defined: 50 Essential Issues That Affect Our Freedom, Paul said he "especially value" the site. Foundation for Rational Economics and Education (FREE). ISBN 978-1-4555-0443-5
- Goldberg, Jonah (March 7, 2001). "Farewell, Lew Rockwell. The final word". National Review.
The site also features regular screeds about how Abraham Lincoln was a murderous war criminal, how the American military is a hotbed of criminal imperialism and murderous warmongering, and why Southern secession not only was honorable and noble but how it still is a viable option.
(In this article, Goldberg was responding to criticisms of another article he had written about LRC.) - Antle III, W. James (January 14, 2008). "The Paleocon Dilemma… The Ron Paul campaign illustrates the choices facing the antiwar Right". The American Conservative.
decade ago...Rockwell hoped to mobilize grassroots conservatives on behalf of anti-statism, during the Bush era he has detected a whiff of 'red-state fascism' among the Republican base. Other writers prefer terms like 'neoconofascist'.
- Kalichman, Seth (2008). Denying AIDS: Conspiracy Theories, Pseudoscience, and Human Tragedy. New York, London: Springer. p. 49–53, 142, 182, 191. ISBN 978-0-387-79475-4. OCLC 390487079.
{{cite book}}: Unknown parameter|coauthors=ignored (|author=suggested) (help)- For the 2006 LRC conference, see: LewRockwell.com 2006 conference schedule
- For Harvey Bialy's LRC response to Farber, Celia (March 2006). "Out of Control: AIDS and the Corruption of Medical Science". Harper's, vol. 312, no. 1870, pp. 37–52, OCLC 100240598; ISSN 017-789X Parameter error in {{issn}}: Invalid ISSN.; see: "The US Government Responds to the 'AIDS Denialist' Writing in the March Harper’s"
- For Rebecca Culshaw's LRC article, see: "Why I Quit HIV", LewRockwell.com, March 3, 2006.
- Gorski, David (June 22, 2009). "Cranks, quacks, and peer-review." Science-based medicine. Author is Assistant Professor of Medicine (Surgery) at Wayne State University, holding an M.D. and Ph.D. in Cellular Biology from Case Western University)
- LewRockwell.com columnists
- ^ About LewRockwell.com (partial listing)
- In his 2010 book Lies the Government Told You: Myth, Power, and Deception in American History, Napolitano described LRC as "the best monitor of government excess in America today". ISBN 978-1-59555-266-2 OCLC 422764514