Duke’s Belle Knox trades on porn fame to promote libertarians Ayn Rand and Rand Paul

Duke University porn star Belle Knox is eyeing a possible career in politics.

The second-year student, whose real name is Miriam Weeks, has been promoting her libertarian views as campus coordinator of Students for Liberty and helped bring Ayn Rand Institute head Yaron Brook to speak at Duke.

“I’m conservative,” Weeks said in an interview with Business Insider. “I’m very socially liberal, but I’m very economically conservative.”

She doesn’t see any conflict between her adult film career and her political activism.

“I think that my work and being in the porn industry definitely hits on so many libertarian themes like free speech, and censorship, and, you know, choice and autonomy over our bodies,” Weeks explained. “So I think that I’ve really become passionate about libertarian issues because of the intersection.”

She said her “favorite figures in liberty” are Ayn Rand, Milton Friedman, porn star Nina Hartley, and the blogger and former call girl Maggie McNeill.

Weeks is also a huge fan of former Republican Rep. Ron Paul and his son, Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), who is expected to run for president in 2016.

“I totally endorse him,” Weeks said. “He actually graduated from Duke, so that’s just another reason for me to love him.”

Weeks, who declined to say whether she's still performing in adult movies, said she plans to attend law school and become “a lawyer for women,” like her “idol” Gloria Allred, and possibly pursue a political career of her own.

“If someone would want to have me as their campaign assistant I would love to do that,” she told the website. “I don’t know if I could ever win if I ran for political office because I’m very radical. I’m kind of very radical or extreme on the spectrum I feel like and, obviously you have to appeal to the average person, but you never know.”

“There’s a porn star in Italy who’s now a politician,” she added, “so you never know.”