LIBERTARIAN ANSWER MAN TIME Restrictive Covenants and Homeowners Associations (HOAs) (From this Facebook post) [Update: see Libertarian Answer Man: Restrictive Covenants, Reserved Rights, and Copyright; also discussed a bit in KOL354 | CDA §230, Being “Part of the State,” Co-ownership, Causation, Defamation, with Nick Sinard] FROM C: “Hello, “I’ve recently taken interest in how you’ve […]
From this facebook post: LIBERTARIAN ANSWER MAN TIME MIND-BODY DUALISM, SELF-OWNERSHIP AND PROPERTY RIGHTS FROM N: “Hi Stephan, The other day, I was asked whether argumentation ethics presupposes a mind-body dualism since Hoppe makes the argument in A Theory of Socialism and Capitalism that nth-use property rights (when n != 1) can’t be justified since […]
I tweeted: “One area that has not received much attention by libertarian theorists, that I know of, is bankruptcy. Still work to do!” Someone asked me: “Do you have more topics without much attention from libertarian thinkers?” My reply: Yeah and I need to collect them. But here are a few, off the top of […]
The modern libertarian movement is about 50 or 60 years old,1 although its origins have been traced to previous intellectual eras and movements such as classical liberalism (and the US Founding Fathers, the Constitution, etc.), the “Old Right,”2 and even the anti-state/anarchist left. Strategically and tactically, libertarians in our fledgling political philosophy have attempted various […]
I’ve long argued that you can’t sell yourself into slavery by contract. See KOL004 | Interview with Walter Block on Voluntary Slavery. Also: Some of my writing relevant to this topic and our discussion include: “Selling Does Not Imply Ownership, and Vice-Versa: A Dissection,” The Libertarian Standard (Oct. 25, 2022) KOL197 | Tom Woods Show: The Central […]
This is a post by my friend Juan Carpio from our now-moribund group blog, The Libertarian Standard. I paste the whole thing plus comments since I had some extensive comments there. Four questions for “anti-capitalist” libertarians Juan Fernando Carpio April 21, 2010 11:58 am Sheldon Richman, one of the best libertarian writers of the last decade and […]
I’m speaking next month on “Law: Decentralized and Centralized,” in an online conference, “The Enduring Importance of the Austrian School,” Austrian Economics Discord Server (Jan. 8, 2022, 6:45–7:30 EST). From the organizer: Schedule: The schedule for the conference will be as follows: January 8 (Eastern Standard Time EST) Jeff Deist – 6:00-6:45 Stephan Kinsella – […]
Kinsella on Liberty Podcast, Episode 367. I appeared on Patrick Smith’s Disenthrall channel (Disenthrall Youtube channel) to discuss and rebut—to fisk, really—an article by one “Strangerous Thoughts” from 2010 criticizing my IP abolitionism—or my “intellectual communism,” as he called it. The main article is: The economic principles of intellectual property and the fallacies of intellectual […]
Kinsella on Liberty Podcast, Episode 366. This is my appearance on the Repeal the 20th Century podcast (Youtube channel). We discussed my IP debate at the Soho Forum (see KOL364 | Soho Forum Debate vs. Richard Epstein: Patent and Copyright Law Should Be Abolished and KOL369 | Soho Forum IP Debate Post-Mortem with Greg Morin), the basic […]
The originally-published article is here: How We Come To Own Ourselves, Mises Daily (Sep. 7, 2006). (Mises.org blog discussion; audio version) See also Rothbard, Ethics of Liberty, anticipating Hoppe’s argument for self-(body) ownership: “He also discovers the natural fact of his mind’s command over his body and its actions: that is, of his natural ownership over his self.” See […]
