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Thomas James DiLorenzo (/ d i l ə ˈ r ɛ n z oʊ /; born August 8, 1954) is an American author and former university economics professor who is the President of the Ludwig von Mises Institute. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] He has written books denouncing President Abraham Lincoln and is well known among economists for his work chronicling the history of ...
Lew Rockwell: Established: 1982; 43 years ago () Focus: Economics education, Austrian school of economics, and libertarianism in the United States (anarcho-capitalism, classical liberalism, paleolibertarianism, neoliberalism and right-libertarianism) Faculty: 350+ [1] Staff: 21: Key people: Lew Rockwell (Chairman) Thomas DiLorenzo (President ...
Thomas J. DiLorenzo and Charles Adams, writing from the point of view that in academic economics is labeled anarcho-capitalist libertarianism, scavenge the documentary record in an attempt to show Lincoln as a revolutionary centralizer who used national sovereignty to establish corporate-mercantilist hegemony at the expense of genuine economic ...
Rockwell's website, LewRockwell.com, formed in 1999, features articles and blog entries by various columnists and writers. [13] Its motto is "anti-war, anti-state, pro-market". [33] There also is a weekly podcast called The Lew Rockwell Show. [34] As of March 2017, it was in the top 10,000 websites in the United States. [35]
In the 1990s, Rothbard, Lew Rockwell and others described their libertarian conservative views as paleolibertarianism. [49] In an early statement of this position, Rockwell and Jeffrey Tucker argued for a specifically Christian libertarianism. [49]
In a 2009 review of three newly published books on Lincoln, historian Brian Dirck referred to Bennett's 2000 work and linked him with Thomas DiLorenzo, another critic of Lincoln. He wrote that "Few Civil War scholars take Bennett and DiLorenzo seriously, pointing to their narrow political agenda and faulty research." [4]
Lew Rockwell is a prominent anarcho-capitalist who in 1982 founded the Ludwig von Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama. He continues to serve in a leadership capacity as its president. He also is vice president of the Center for Libertarian Studies in Burlingame, California and publisher of the political weblog LewRockwell.com.
Still, DiLorenzo's work is more of a diatribe against a mostly unnamed group of Lincoln scholars than a real historical analysis." [ 3 ] The review in Publishers Weekly called the book a "laughable screed ," and suggested that DiLorenzo's main target was "scholars who dominate American universities (most notably Eric Foner )".