No no, we’re done having kids. None of this prepper “have a ton of kids” stuff. Kinsella is for me an interesting name to have inherited (literally, as I’m adopted). It’s not too weird, hard to spell, or ethnic, yet not too common here in the US. Every now and then someone says “say, Kinsella, […]
Kinsella on Liberty Podcast, Episode 139. Albert Lu interviewed me for his Power and Market podcast, posted July 29, 2014. Unlike most interviews, we talked about education, career choices, and related matters. This is an edited version of a longer interview. The longer one can be obtained by requesting access here. Lu’s description for the […]
In 1978 or so, in seventh grade at St. George, a Catholic elementary school in Baton Rouge, one of my favorite teachers was Mr. Owens. In 1989, when I was in grad school, I sent him the following letter (somewhat edited here). He was by then the principal of St. George and a friend who […]
Over the years I on occasion get mistaken for other Kinsella’s. Our name is rare in the US. Usually when I sign a bill people say “hey like that guy Ray Kinsella from Field of Dreams, right?” That is my claim to fame. Unclean head. Dirty head. That’s what Kinsella means. Not King of the Islands. […]
My 8 year old recently brought home a few haikus he wrote at school. (A haiku is a type of Japanese poetry where you have 3 lines, with 5, 7, and 5 “on” (like a syllable); http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haiku) My favorite is “Books”: Books Books. Books. Their knowledge. Information flows through me. The knowledge of books. Others: […]
From a LRC post in 2006: Re: Reuben deviationists Posted by Stephan Kinsella on September 12, 2006 10:18 PM Okay guys, I have to weigh in here: Sure corned beef sammiches are good (Corned Beef Academy is good, it). But if you are ever in the Philadelphia area (specifically, West Chester, in the western suburbs), […]
My parents’ recent selection of their tombstones got me ta thinkin’. I think the epitaph I’d like would be: Father, Husband, Libertarian.
I used to publish articles, columns, and letters to the editor in high school, in local newspapers (in Baton Rouge) and then, while at LSU (1983-91), in the LSU Daily Reveille. I was a columnist for a while at the Reveille, while in engineering and law school, and occasionally published pro-free market type columns. But […]
A few weeks ago my wife and I tried this Williams-Sonoma recipe: Slow-Cooker Shepherd’s Pie. It’s really good. We have some family coming to visit from Louisiana, so we are making it tomorrow for Christmas day. For Sunday we have more family and friends coming over for dinner, and are going to cook Amarone Osso […]
I’ve moved to libertarian scholarship full-time. Quit job, well mostly–working 1 day a week, mostly remotely. Rest of the time: full time libertarian and legal speaking, lecturing, publishing. Very pumped up. No more patents. Starting a new anti-IP center. More details forthcoming…
