Kinsella on Liberty Podcast: Episode 395. [Temporary revised version of transcript (pdf) prepared for the forthcoming Legal Foundations of a Free Society; to be updated upon publication] From the recently-concluded Sixteenth Annual (2022) Meeting of the PFS, Bodrum, Turkey (Sep. 17, 2022). The video as well as slide presentation is also streamed below (ppt). I […]
Kinsella on Liberty Podcast: Episode 394. This is my appearance on Robert Breedlove’s What Is Money podcast, Ep. WiM216 (Youtube channel). This is Ep. 2 of the “Stephan Kinsella Series.” For Ep. 1, see KOL391 | Hoppe’s A Theory of Socialism and Capitalism, Ep. 1 with Robert Breedlove, of the “What is Money” Show. From Robert’s Episode notes: […]
From Libertarianism.org‘s The Turney Collection: Never-Before-Seen Archive Tapes: George H. Smith Debates David D. Friedman: Ethics vs. Economics (1981) – The Turney Collection. Friedman makes an interesting critique of the Marxist theory of exploitation. He says: Part of my evidence that political disagreement stems more from disagreement about is’s than oughts comes from the following […]
Kinsella on Liberty Podcast: Episode 390. In the second half of a discussion on Disenthrall (for Part I, see KOL389 | Disenthrall: With Patrick Smith and Larken Rose the Morality of Copyright “Piracy”), host Patrick Smith and I discussed recent changes to the Libertarian Party Platform related to aggression and property rights; see Aggression and […]
Adapted from two Facebook posts: May 11, 2022: A recent article points out that Coinbase users might lose their holdings in the case of bankruptcy, since they would be viewed as unsecured creditors with respect to the assets held by Coinbase, namely its crypto and fiat holdings. (“Coinbase earnings were bad. Worse still, the crypto […]
“Thus human economy and property have a joint economic origin since both have, as the ultimate reason for their existence, the fact that goods exist whose available quantities are smaller than the requirements of men. Property, therefore, like human economy, is not an arbitrary invention but rather the only practically possible solution of the problem […]
[Source: telesurenglish.net] Women Have Made Particularly Significant Gains Under the Second Sandinista Government Since 2006 Women, particularly those in the Third World, often find themselves with limited ability to participate in community organizations and political life because of the poverty and their traditional sex role imposes on them. On them falls sole responsibility to care […]
Images of burnt flesh from napalm bombs, wounded and dead soldiers, scenes of U.S. soldiers burning the simple huts of Vietnamese villages, eventually turned the public against the war in Vietnam and produced the dreaded affliction, from the ruling class point of view, known as the “Vietnam syndrome.” This collective Post Traumatic Stress Disorder made […]
From C4SIF: Mr. IP Answer Man Time: On Steel and Swords Feb. 4 2022 From V: Dear Professor Kinsella, I am an economics scholar in the Austrian economics tradition, I am an adherent of the libertarian outlook on life and have read many of your articles on intellectual property and decentralised law. I was reading your […]
American Institute for Economic Research, September 3, 2021 More Wetlands Purgatory for American Landowners James Bovard How many drops of water does it take to justify federal bureaucrats commandeering your own land? Unfortunately, a federal judge changed the answer on Monday – the latest flip-flop in a saga stretching back more than 30 years and […]
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