Last Saturday (May 28) I delivered the speech “Correcting some Common Libertarian Misconceptions” at the 2011 Annual Meeting, Property and Freedom Society (May 27-29, 2011). The video is here, and streamed below; here is the powerpoint presentation. pfs-2011 Stephan Kinsella, Correcting Some Common Libertarian Misconceptions from Sean Gabb on Vimeo. [Mises]
From today’s Mises Daily: Argumentation Ethics and Liberty: A Concise Guide Mises Daily: Monday, May 23, 2011 by Stephan Kinsella Professor Hans-Hermann Hoppe burst onto the Austrolibertarian scene in the late 1980s, when he moved to the United States to study under and work with his mentor Murray Rothbard. Since his arrival, Professor Hoppe has […]
From the Mises blog: Study Hoppe with Kinsella Online May 18, 2011 by Danny Sanchez Explore the social theory of Hans-Hermann Hoppe, the foremost present-day libertarian theorist, with Stephan Kinsella, the foremost present-day Hoppean. You may even get the chance to pose questions to Hoppe himself!
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My latest publication is Montessori, Peace, and Libertarianism, published today on LewRockwell.com. In it I discuss Montessori’s educational method and her philosophy of peace, and quote extensively from a great article by John Bremer, “Education as Peace.” Update: see also my LRC post Battle Hymn of the Libertarian-Montessori Father. Some things I had to cut: […]
Great observation by Rothbard in Living in a State-Run World: … it is vital to distinguish between two kinds of State activities: (a) those actions that would be perfectly legitimate if performed by private firms on the market; and (b) those actions that are per se immoral and criminal, and that would be illicit in […]
On Facebook, a left-anarchist friend wrote: To the archists out there. What is your philosophical justification for hierarchy such as the hierarchy of a state, corporation, church, or any social organization based upon a chain of command? This engendered much discussion. My own reply was: “To the archists out there. What is your philosophical justification […]
I had an exchange on the C4SS site on Thomas Knapp’s post The Thin Black Line: Kinsella: State chartering of corporations should of course be abolished but I’ve yet to see a careful argument that explains on libertarian grounds why passive shareholders/investors of a contractual firm ought to be vicariously responsible for torts committed by […]
For any who are so inclined to blog this, here is some draft language you might find helpful: Stephan Kinsella, a libertarian attorney and writer, Senior Fellow with the Mises Institute and editor of Libertarian Papers, is teaching his second Mises Academy course later this month, entitled “Libertarian Legal Theory: Property, Conflict, and Society.” This […]
In a comment to his post on Sarah Palin, Sheldon Richman writes: I don’t see that it’s obvious that the Supreme Court has been dishonest about the Constitution. It was written as a deliberately vague document designed to satisfy multiple interests. It’s very much an inkblot. Madison said it contained “few and defined” powers, yet […]
