libertarianism

KOL014 | “Israelis vs. Arabs: What’s the solution?”, Libertarian Politics Live, with Eric Dondero (2007)

Kinsella on Liberty Podcast: Episode 014. I published a controversial article, New Israel: A Win-Win-Win Proposal, back in 2001 on LewRockwell.com, in which I proposed relocating Israel to U.S. public lands such as Utah or the Anwar area of Alaska. I was interviewed about this topic by the bizarro quasi-libertarian Eric Dondero on Libertarian Politics Live on Aug. […]

KOL005 | “What Libertarianism Is” (audio version)

Kinsella on Liberty Podcast: Episode 005. This is an audio version of my article, “What Libertarianism Is,” Mises Daily (August 21, 2009) (narrated by Graham Wright). The article was originally published in Hülsmann & Kinsella, eds., Property, Freedom, and Society: Essays in Honor of Hans-Hermann Hoppe (Mises Institute, 2009). Alternative youtube version:  

KOL004 | Interview with Walter Block on Voluntary Slavery and Inalienability

Kinsella on Liberty Podcast: Episode 004. Update: See also Thoughts on Walter Block on Voluntary Slavery, Alienability vs. Inalienability, Property and Contract, Rothbard and Evers (Jan. 9, 2022); Batting about voluntary slavery (Oct. 5, 2011); Slavery, Inalienability, Economics, and Ethics See also Walter Block’s response: Walter E. Block, Block, “Rejoinder to Kinsella on ownership and the […]

Launching the Kinsella on Liberty Podcast

As many of my readers know, I often lecture and speak and give podcast or radio interviews on various libertarian topics and issues, such as intellectual property (IP), anarcho-libertarians, Austrian law and economic, contract theory, rights and punishment theory, and so on. I also blog and comment regularly on such matters in various blogs (primarily The […]

KOL002 | “Do patents and copyrights undermine private property?: Yes,” Insight magazine (2001)

Kinsella on Liberty Podcast: Episode 002. A reading of one of my earlier IP articles by Ian Freeman on Free Talk Live, from the 8/31/07 show [FTL audio; starts around 5:25]. The article is “Do patents and copyrights undermine private property?: Yes,” Insight magazine, May 21, 2001 (containing a response by CEI’s James DeLong). [As noted in the […]

KOL001 | “The (State’s) Corruption of (Private) Law” (PFS 2012)

Kinsella on Liberty Podcast, Episode 001. See also: PFP098 | Stephan Kinsella, The (State’s) Corruption of (Private) Law (PFS 2012) I delivered this speech in September 2012 for the 2012 Annual Meeting of the Property and Freedom Society in Bodrum, Turkey. The audio of my speech was corrupted due to a technical error, so I re-recorded a version […]

Hoppe on Treating Aggressors as Mere “Technical Problems”

I’ve always liked Hans-Hermann Hoppe’s observations regarding how we have to treat aggressors as technical, not ethical, problems. From The Economics and Ethics of Private Property (relevant parts bolded): while scarcity is a necessary condition for the emergence of the problem of political philosophy, it is not sufficient. For obviously, we could have conflicts regarding the use of […]

Afterword to Hoppe’s The Great Fiction

Update: The Great Fiction: Property, Economy, Society, and the Politics of Decline (Second Expanded Edition, Mises Institute, 2021) is now available, including my updated Afterword [PDF]. Afterword to First Edition Professor Hoppe’s book  The Great Fiction: Property, Economy, Society, and the Politics of Decline was published today by Laissez Faire Books. More information available here. My Afterword is […]