Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr.

Articles

09/02/2025 Mises Wire Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr.

Can a majority vote to end democracy? If it can, democracy would no longer exist. But if it can’t, then not all political issues are decided by majority vote.

The “Open Diplomacy” Fallacy

08/26/2025 Mises Wire Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr.

“Because these meetings are held in the glare of world-wide media coverage, the parties to a dispute will be reluctant to make concessions.”

Mises University 2025

08/04/2025 Mises Wire Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr.

I’d like to begin by telling you something about how I founded the Mises Institute in 1982 and what we are trying to accomplish. Forty-five years ago, when I was contemplating the creation of a Ludwig...

Publications

Open Borders are an Assault on Private Property

02/11/2025 Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr.

Whether we’re talking about illegal immigration from Mexico and Central America, or birthright citizenship, or the migrants coming from the Middle East and Africa, the subject of immigration has been in the news and widely discussed for months now

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

Media

Don’t Ship Weapons to Troubled Hot Spots

07/29/2025 Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr.

Once he took office, Trump continued Biden‘s policy of massive arms shipments to Israel. Trump even sent American bombers to attack Iran‘s nuclear facilities.

President Trump’s Interventionism

06/27/2025 Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr.

Regardless of your view of the current conflicts, one fact is indisputable. President Trump’s actions violate our traditional non-interventionist foreign policy.

Ludwig von Mises on Peace and Social Cooperation

05/29/2025 Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr.

The free market replaces the struggle for survival found in the animal world with social cooperation in which everybody benefits. Capitalism is a system of peace, not war.

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