libertarianism

Interesting article that Academia.edu alerted me to: Octavian-Dragomir Jora,  Gheorghe Hurduzeu, Mihaela Iacob & Georgiana-Camelia Crețan, “‘Dialectical Contradictions’ in the Neoclassical Theory and Policy Regarding Market Competition: The Consumer and His Continuous Burden of Crisis,” Amfiteatru Economic Journal, Vol. 19, no. 45 (2017), pp. 544–65 [ISSN 2247-9104, The Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Bucharest; pdf]. […]

Phil Magness, who has been solid on many libertarian matters (see e.g. his appearances on the Tom Woods show), started criticizing Hans-Hermann Hoppe a couple years ago and has recently ramped it up. For example, back in 2019, Magness tried to link Hoppe’s views on immigration and race to his PhD adviser Habermas (see this […]

I have had a private freewheeling libertarian email discussion list for many years, and many private memes have emerged. I used to gaslight someone by adding “No offense, John” after a comment that I wanted to signal was an implicit insult or critique of their views. So now they all say “No offense, Kinsella” or […]

From Twitter: Perhaps we should combine the “Holdeen Trusts” idea with a pool of bitcoin with donations by liberty advocates, to build a HUGE monetary warchest to finance something, like tax-free government or a powerful libertarian advocacy group. Suppose we get libertarians to donate, say, $1M, or $10M, now to this project, and within 10 years […]

From Libertarianism.org‘s The Turney Collection: Never-Before-Seen Archive Tapes: George H. Smith Debates David D. Friedman: Ethics vs. Economics (1981) – The Turney Collection. Friedman makes an interesting critique of the Marxist theory of exploitation. He says: Part of my evidence that political disagreement stems more from disagreement about is’s than oughts comes from the following […]

Kinsella on Liberty Podcast: Episode 390. In the second half of a discussion on Disenthrall (for Part I, see KOL389 | Disenthrall: With Patrick Smith and Larken Rose the Morality of Copyright “Piracy”), host Patrick Smith and I discussed recent changes to the Libertarian Party Platform related to aggression and property rights; see Aggression and […]

An interesting new paper: Eduardo Blasco & David Marcos, “Nulla Libertarian Poena Sine NAP: Reexamination of Libertarian Theories of Punishment,” studia humana Volume 9:2 (2020): 83—89. Abstract: Libertarianism deals with what the law should be. In this article, we focus on what the appropriate law to punish criminals should be in a libertarian society; that […]

With Sean Gabb, Chris Tame, et al. I’ve known Sean, a tireless advocate of liberty, since the first Property and Freedom Society meeting in 2006. It’s always refreshing to hear a non-libertarian perspective on libertarianism. Full Playlist. Shownotes for the first video: In this clip from “Voices of Liberty,” filmed by David Botsford in 1991, […]

Keith Knight has just published The Voluntaryist Handbook: A Collection of Essays, Excerpts, and Quotes (2022; pdf). As Keith notes in his Afterword, the compilation was inspired by Michael Malice’s The Anarchist Handbook, and his book contains some of the pieces I suggested in “Michael Malice’s The Anarchist Handbook: Supplemental Readings,” such as Alfred G. Cuzán’s classic […]

Based on a facebook post (mysteriously deleted):1 In my various arguments about intellectual property (IP) over the years (since I first started writing and speaking on this, in about 1995) I have gradually come up with new ways of explaining the issue, mostly in response to various criticisms and arguments I’ve seen raised on the […]