libertarianism

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 […]

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, […]

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 […]

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. […]

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 […]