Type of site webmagazine Website lewrockwell.com Current status active | Editor Lew Rockwell Alexa rank 24,222 (Sept 2016) | |
Launched 1999; 18 years ago (1999) | ||
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.
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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.
Responses
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]."
The site has been criticized for presenting articles which advocate AIDS denialism, the view that HIV does not cause AIDS. For instance, the site published former University of Texas at Tyler Math Professor Rebecca Culshaw's article, "Why I quit HIV", in which she rejected the evidence that HIV causes AIDS. Additionally, Peter Duesberg made a presentation espousing AIDS Denial a 2006 conference hosted by LewRockwell.com. LRC was also criticized for publishing the claim that vaccines cause autism.
Contributors
Noted contributors listed by LewRockwell.com include:
* Indicates contributor also listed as a prominent LRC writer.Other noted LRC writers include: