John Pilger describes the surreal experience of a Westfield mega mall. The biggest mall in Europe has just opened in London, controlling the main entrance to the 2012 Olympics. In the West, consumerism and war are apparently natural allies, with indebted shopping now 'normal' - like 'perpetual war'.
This Friday, Sept. 23, at 6pm Easter time, I’ll be teaching a Mises Academy Webinar discussing the America Invents Act, signed into law last Friday by President Obama. I discuss this webinar in a Mises Daily article today: Obama’s Patent Reform: Improvement or Continuing Calamity?. In the webinar, I will: summarize the basic problem with […]
This weekend I came across an old journal I kept as a boy, when I was 8 to 10 years old, and was reading its goofy entries to my own 8 year old, to his delight. I came across an entry from November, 1975, when I was 10, and it strikes me now that it […]
Lectures from the TORONTO CONFERENCESponsored by the Social Justice Committee (in collaboration with the Centre for Research on Globalization)September 9, 2011
Guest speakers include:
Cynthia McKinney, former United States Congresswoman from Georgia
Michel Chossudovsky, professor (retired) at the University of Ottawa and founder of the Centre for Research on Globalization
Mahdi Darius
Interesting. The Cherokee “Nation” actually plays at government and courts. It’s a bit sickening to see them apeing the pomp and practice of their overlords. (See recent decisions here; including a recent decision controversially revoking the citizenship rights of black slave descendants (MSNBC).) Reminds a bit of the UN “courts,” like the UN’s ICJ, the […]
An audio version of my 2009 article, “What Libertarianism Is,” Mises Daily (August 21, 2009), has been produced, narrated by Graham Wright (audio file).
From the Mises Blog, Sept. 10, 2011. Archived comments below. [Update: see also Rothbard on Leonard Read and the Origins of “Libertarianism” (Nov. 17, 2014); and Wikipedia entry on libertarianism, claiming 1796 usage of “libertarian” in the political sense; see also SPRADING, “LIBERTY AND THE GREAT LIBERTARIANS”; Timo Virkkala, Grand Theft L-Word; Jeffrey Tucker, “Where […]
John Pilger describes the lethal similarities between the propaganda that led to the invasions of Iraq and now Libya, and the arms industry's view of "a very worthwhile region to target".
As announced on B.K. Marcus’s post at the Mises blog today (see below), the Hoppe festschrift that Guido Hülsmann and I edited, Property, Freedom, and Society: Essays in Honor of Hans-Hermann Hoppe (Mises Institute, 2009), which was already available in PDF and print, is now available in a free epub format as well. Kindle and […]
My article “What Libertarianism Is” was just published in Italian in “Parte Terza: Diritto Naturale e Teoria Politica” of Liberalismo e Anarcocapitalismo: La scuola austriaca di economia (n.1-2 Gennaio-Giugno 2011), part of the Nuova Civiltà delle Macchine monograph series edited by Dario Antiseri (one of the major living Italian philosophers). Other authors include: Rothbard, Rizzo, […]
In 1997 I published an article, “A Libertarian Theory of Punishment and Rights,” in the Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review. First, notice the title–it has “libertarian” in it. I have never been shy about my libertarian views, but knew that this might cause problems with a mainstream law review. So I submitted it as […]
Often people will decry tax breaks to certain businesses or industries on the grounds that this amounts to a “subsidy.” Of course it is false that letting people keep more of their money is a subsidy, but it is true that unequal tax rates (or breaks) can distort the market and benefit the more lightly-taxed […]
I’ll be appearing as a speaker and panelist at the upcoming Open Science Summit, Oct. 22, 2011, at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View CA. My topic is “IP and the New Mercantilism,” as part of panel “The Future (End) of ‘Intellectual Property.'” I’m very stoked about meeting some non-libertarians who have anti-IP or […]
The libertarian podcast Thinking Liberty is excellent and continues to impress (I was a guest on the Feb. 15, 2011 episode, discussing IP and related matters; the hosts were great and asked very intelligent questions). I really enjoyed a few recent episodes: 2011-07-26 show, featuring Kevin Carson (who has some nice things to say about […]
I appeared last year on the Gene Basler Show, discussing a variety of anarcho-libertarian matters–environmentalism, nuclear power, state propaganda in government schools, class action lawsuits, reparations, how to achieve an anarcho-libertarian society, animal rights, positive rights and obligations, forced heirship, and so on (May 30, 2010). Apparently Basler has a book coming out, Environmental Non-Policy: […]
Here’s Stefan Molyneux at PorcFest 2011 at a Students for Liberty Q&A, discussing his Universally Preferable Behavior theory, and briefly fielding a question about Hoppe’s argumentation ethics and my estoppel theory (go to about 20:38): (audio; mp3) [VIDEO NOW LONGER AVAILABLE; user’s account suspended]
My Mises Daily article “Libertarian Controversies” ran today, discussing my upcoming Mises Academy course, Libertarian Controversies. I gave a speech last May, “Correcting some Common Libertarian Misconceptions” at the 2011 Annual Meeting, Property and Freedom Society (May 27-29, 2011), which is sort of a teaser for what I intend to discuss in the upcoming course. […]
I used to publish articles, columns, and letters to the editor in high school, in local newspapers (in Baton Rouge) and then, while at LSU (1983-91), in the LSU Daily Reveille. I was a columnist for a while at the Reveille, while in engineering and law school, and occasionally published pro-free market type columns. But […]
John Stossel had a panel of libertarians discussing topics from Walter Block’s Defending the Undefendable. Stossel said they wanted to have Block on, but he was out of the country and unavailable, so instead the show featured Reason’s Nick Gillespie, David Boaz of the Cato Institute, and Alex Tabarrok of George Mason University, who “made […]
Nina Paley posted on Google+ recently “an incomplete list of places I’ve spoken/lectured/presented at professionally”… And it’s quite impressive! I thought I would do the same, covering forums, publications, journals, publishers, venues, etc. I have published, lectured, taught, etc. over the last 18 or so years (since 1994, roughly), dividing it into my legal and […]
I was a guest last night on FreeTalkLive (Sunday, Aug. 21, 2011), discussing intellectual property with Sunday hosts Mark Edge and Stephanie. We talked for about an hour and a half, from 7pm-830pm EDT and had a good, wide-ranging discussion. A few callers called in near the end. This was the FTL debut on XM […]
I’ll be speaking on “Intellectual Property and Economic Development,” Wisconsin Forum, Milwaukee (Jan. 25, 2012).
“Woe for a nation that eats from what it doesn’t plant and wears from what it doesn’t sew” Chinese wisdom. And this is how in a few decades China turned out from a feudal country into the first industrial country …
John Pilger describes the conditions that have led to the social explosion across the UK and argues that while crime may feed on riots, it does not ignite them.
I’ve discussed my thoughts on the Montessori educational method previously (see my article Montessori, Peace, and Libertarianism; also my posts Montessori and “Unschooling”; Bullying and Libertarianism; Libertarian Parenting–A Freedomain Radio Conversation). Last week the excellent KERA radio program “Think” had a great interview with André Roberfroid, President of Association Montessori Internationale, about the Montessori method: […]
Some humorous emails from my legal blog: Professional Courtesy August 20, 2004 According to the attorney who sent it to me: this was a voicemail message “that an associate at Winston & Strawn left for an associate at Latham. Latham is representing a borrower in a real estate transaction and W&S; represents the lender. I […]
Randian Dislikes Me by Stephan Kinsella on December 9, 2009 in Uncategorized Objectivist Diana Hsieh says: “Kensella [sic] is an unhinged and dishonest bit of nastiness, and he deserves to be shunned by all reasonable people — not treated as a civilized interlocutor.” I can’t say I’m very bothered by this: this is the same […]
John Pilger reports from Havana on his first assignment to Cuba in many years. He finds a softer, easier society, with the idea and symbol of revolutionary Cuba, unchanged.
Marc Stevens, author of Adventures In Legal Land and host of the No State Project, joins me to illuminate the dark and bizarre world of the so-called justice system.
Marc Stevens, author of Adventures In Legal Land and host of the No State Project, joins me to illuminate the dark and bizarre world of the so-called justice system.With this focus on law and the courts, we discuss the second form of doublespeak: jargon.
Marc Stevens, author of Adventures In Legal Land and host of the No State Project, joins me to illuminate the dark and bizarre world of the so-called justice system.
Originally published on the Mises Blog: The Hospers-Tannehill Correspondence JULY 24, 2011 Stephan Kinsella Recently there fell into my lap 80 pages of fascinating correspondence between two of the most influential libertarian intellectuals of our time: the recently-deceased John Hospers, author of Libertarianism: a political philosophy for tomorrow and the first presidential candidate of the […]
With a focus on the intellectually insulting tactics of the mainstream media, I discuss an often overlooked form of doublespeak: the cacophemism (aka malphemism or dysphemism).
In language, dysphemism (from the Greek dys δύς "mis-" and pheme φήμη "reputation"), malphemism (in Latin malus "bad"), and cacophemism (in Greek kakos κακός "bad") refer to the usage of an intentionally harsh word or expression instead of a polite one. -Wikipedia
With a focus on the intellectually insulting tactics of the mainstream media, I discuss an often overlooked form of doublespeak: the cacophemism (aka malphemism or dysphemism).In language, dysphemism (from the Greek dys δύς "mis-" and pheme φήμη "reputation"), malphemism (in Latin malus "bad"), and cacophemism (in Greek kakos κακός "bad") refer to the usage of an intentionally harsh word or expression instead of a polite one.
With a focus on the intellectually insulting tactics of the mainstream media, I discuss an often overlooked form of doublespeak: the cacophemism (aka malphemism or dysphemism).
In language, dysphemism (from the Greek dys δύς "mis-" and pheme φήμη "reputation"), malphemism (in Latin malus "bad"), and cacophemism (in Greek kakos κακός "bad") refer to the usage of an intentionally harsh word or expression instead of a polite one. -Wikipedia
From the site of my publisher, Quid Pro Books, information about the release this month of my new book, Louisiana Civil Law Dictionary (with Gregory Rome; Quid Pro Books 2011). It’s available now at Amazon in paper and kindle formats, and in hardback later this month. Also available in other ebook formats. (Additional information at […]
In his latest column for the New Statesman, John Pilger examines the spectacle of the Murdoch scandal and its cover for a system that welcomed Rupert Murdoch's "rapacious devotion to the free market".
With a focus on the misleading and manipulative language of the military, I discuss the first form of doublespeak: the euphemism.
With a focus on the misleading and manipulative language of the military, I discuss the first form of doublespeak: the euphemism.Defining attributes of doublespeak:-misleads-distorts reality-pretends to communicate-avoids or shifts responsibility-makes the negative appear positive-creates a false verbal map of the world-limits, conceals, corrupts, and prevents thought-makes the unpleasant appear attractive or tolerable-creates incongruity between reality and what is said or not said(
With a focus on the misleading and manipulative language of the military, I discuss the first form of doublespeak: the euphemism.
Kelly Halldorson from unschoolbus.com joins me to discuss her family's unschooling awakening. Kelly and her husband Jeff are the parents of three unschooled teenagers. We also cover the reactions and judgements of others, the challenges, travels on the Unschool Bus and the successes of liberty-minded parenting.
Correction: Northeast Unschooling Conference, not New England Unschooling Conference
Look Closer:
Kelly Halldorson from unschoolbus.com joins me to discuss her family's unschooling awakening. Kelly and her husband Jeff are the parents of three unschooled teenagers.
Kelly Halldorson from unschoolbus.com joins me to discuss her family's unschooling awakening. Kelly and her husband Jeff are the parents of three unschooled teenagers. We also cover the reactions and judgements of others, the challenges, travels on the Unschool Bus and the successes of liberty-minded parenting.
Correction: Northeast Unschooling Conference, not New England Unschooling Conference
Look Closer:
I majored in electrical engineering at LSU from 1983 to 1987. I had to take one economics course, my very first semester, which I ended up making an A in. But I did not like it. Never did like the idea of supply and demand curves, “elasticity” etc. I don’t think I had read much […]
WARNING: Explicit Content
While the title is self-explanatory, this is a somewhat symbolic show. Most of this material was originally discarded because I found it to be too negative. At this point, I'd like to turn another corner, and start producing a generally more positive and constructive product.
WARNING: Explicit ContentWhile the title is self-explanatory, this is a somewhat symbolic show. Most of this material was originally discarded because I found it to be too negative. At this point, I'd like to turn another corner, and start producing a generally more positive and constructive product. In the first 100 shows, with regard to criticism of the state and its schools, few stones were left unturned. We've covered these problems in great detail, often with a very negative tone.
WARNING: Explicit Content
While the title is self-explanatory, this is a somewhat symbolic show. Most of this material was originally discarded because I found it to be too negative. At this point, I'd like to turn another corner, and start producing a generally more positive and constructive product.
From the Mises blog: State Hypocrisy on Anti-Bribery Laws JULY 10, 2011 by STEPHAN KINSELLA In 1977 the US enacted the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), which makes it a crime for American citizens and businesses to bribe foreign public officials for business purposes. It also imposes certain accounting standards on public US companies, which I wrote about […]
uFollow has created a page to index and follow my articles and blogs at Mises and my personal page here: http://www.ufollow.com/authors/stephan.kinsella/. Nice service. I have asked them to update some info and add feeds to my blog posts at C4SIF and The Libertarian Standard too. I dimly recall that I also occasionally blog at other […]
In his latest column for the New Statesman, John Pilger examines the 'Obama effect' on much of liberal opinion and anti-war dissent in the United States, of which the recent banning of his film, 'The War You Don't See', is a symptom.
