libertarianism

KOL227 | VJ Live! Interview: Owning Thoughts, Intellectual Property, and the Toy Helicopter Controversy

Kinsella on Liberty Podcast, Episode 227. This is my appearance on Voluntary Japan Live! with host Graham Smith. We talked about ownership of thoughts, the basics of libertarian property rights and terms like ownership, mind, brain, causation, action, property, and so on, intellectual property, the nature of contracts, and, of course, the dreaded “toy helicopter” […]

KOL225 | Reflections on the Theory of Contract (PFS 2017)

Kinsella on Liberty Podcast, Episode 225. This is my speech delivered earlier today at the 2017 Annual Meeting of the Property and Freedom Society, Sept. 17, 2017. Video embedded below. Slides used embedded below (or can be downloaded). Transcript below. The subsequent Q&A session for our panel is also embedded below (but not included in the […]

Fantasticalism and the Future of a Dying Planet

As a tender of youth – 16 to 21 year olds, as my clients are in foster care, held by the state or some other guardian, or on their own, but still labeled as foster youth – I find the topics of our time more magnified by the presence of the ever-vaunting capitalist mindset about time, work, energy, technology, digital supremacy, patriotism, consumerism, punishment, surveillance, worthiness.

Porkins Policy Radio episode 106 Post Charlottesville with Chuck Ochelli

Chuck Ochelli joins me to discuss the aftermath of the violence in Charlottesville and the rise of right wing racist groups. We begin by breaking down the initial protest over the taking down of a statue Robert E Lee. Chuck and I offer up our thoughts not only on America’s new found love of statues from the 1950’s but the make up of this crowd of alt-right protesters. Next Chuck and I explore the racist and racialist history of America and its deep roots in our society. Chuck explains the difference and how racialism has infected most of the population.

Därför behövs det libertarianer i riksdagen

Libertarianer gillar när beslut fattas utifrån fakta och på logiska grunder. Saker och ting måste fungera. Vi är en smula petiga på den punkten.Svensk politik är till synes tvärt om.Därför behöver ni välja in libertarianer i riksdagen. Vår själva närvaro skulle bli en demokratisk chock. Vi skulle vara precis så där obstinata som vi kan vara under våra långa nattliga diskussioner och på Facebook. Vi skulle kräva bevis och korten på bordet.

Why the Devil Loves Democracy

Best known for his Chronicles of Narnia series, author C.S. Lewis's The Screwtape Letters is decidedly different. The demon Wormwood is working on a particular human, a man known just as "the patient." He seeks his uncle Screwtape's advice on how to tempt the man into sin and ultimately lose his soul to "our Father below." Screwtape's tips for destroying the morality of humanity are much more subtle than you'd expect, and they sound surprisingly like Ayn Rand.