Lew: I suspect that most “BUSINESS economists” – whose corporate-state umbilical cords remain intact – would, like the WSJ, find a Ron Paul administration most undesirable. My god, they’d have to go back to analyzing marketplace influences instead of governmental policies! By contrast, it would be interesting to see what “MARKETPLACE economists” have to say on the topic. What about an LRC survey of such economists? I’m betting that neither Giuliani nor Hillary would garner one vote!

The Best of Butler Shaffer

He is NOT the story, says National Review. But notice how the magazine acknowledges–for the first time, I think–the existence of a right-wing antiwar movement. Ironically, NR was established more than 50 years ago specifically to destroy the antiwar Old Right, and to establish empire and perpetual war as the core conservative doctrines. Ron Paul has brought the Old Right back, and unlike the left-wing antiwar movement, whatever its good points, the right-wing version has the potential to garner majority support in America. The warmongers always knew this, of course. They still know it. For more, see LRC’s forthcoming serialization of Murray Rothbard’s just-published classic Betrayal of the Ameircan Right. (Thanks to Chris Rhoades)

The Best of Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr.