Kinsella On Liberty

Kinsella on Liberty Podcast: Episode 021. This is lecture 4 (of 6) of my 2011 Mises Academy course “Libertarian Legal Theory: Property, Conflict, and Society.” I'll release the remaining lectures here in the podcast in upcoming days. This lecture's topic is "Causation, Aggression, Responsibility," and discusses: Conspiracies and Incitement Strict Liability. Responsibility for Property. “Limitation...

Kinsella on Liberty Podcast: Episode 020. This is lecture 3 (of 6) of my 2011 Mises Academy course “Libertarian Legal Theory: Property, Conflict, and Society.” I'll release the remaining lectures here in the podcast in upcoming days. This lecture's topic is "Applications I: Legal Systems, Contract, Fraud," and discusses: Legislation and Law The significance of Roman Law Contract Theory “written” a...

Kinsella on Liberty Podcast: Episode 019. This is lecture 2 (of 6) of my 2011 Mises Academy course “Libertarian Legal Theory: Property, Conflict, and Society.” The remaining lectures follow in subsequent podcast episodes. Note: The material in these lectures more or less tracks the contents of my later-published book Legal Foundations of a Free Society (Houston, Texas: Papinian Press, 2023). Grok...

Kinsella on Liberty Podcast: Episode 018. This is lecture 1 (of 6) of my 2011 Mises Academy course “Libertarian Legal Theory: Property, Conflict, and Society.” The remaining lectures follow in subsequent podcast episodes. Note: The material in these lectures more or less tracks the contents of my later-published book Legal Foundations of a Free Society (Houston, Texas: Papinian Press, 2023). Grok...

Kinsella on Liberty Podcast: Episode 017. I was interviewed last night on the Liberty Beat podcast, episode 33 (Sunday, Feb. 17, 2013). Hosts Daniel Benoy, David Shepherd, and Chinaman. We had a nice, long, in-depth discussion about IP, and also the Ron Paul v. ronpaul.com dispute, and other topics as noted below: "Intellectual Property Attorney and outspoken libertarian Stephan Kinsella joins us...

Kinsella on Liberty Podcast: Episode 016. I appeared last night on Adam vs. the Man (episode 192) to discuss the Ron Paul v. Ronpaul.com dispute. Our segment goes from about 1:30:30 to about 1:54:30, which is excerpted here. https://youtu.be/BH62Sbxwag8 Excerpt: Full show: See also: Mike Masnick, Ron Paul, UN Hater, Asks UN To Take RonPaul.com Forcefully From Ron Paul's Biggest Supporters, TechDir...

Kinsella on Liberty Podcast: Episode 015. YAL interview (October 7, 2009; archive) by Matt Cockerill of Young Americans for Liberty. Our interview covered several topics, such as minarchism vs. anarcho-libertarianism, the non-aggression principle, gay marriage, restitution vs. retribution, intellectual property, and pessimism and activism. (YouTube version) See Kinsella Interviewed by YAL. For mor...

Kinsella on Liberty Podcast: Episode 014. I published a controversial article, New Israel: A Win-Win-Win Proposal, back in 2001 on LewRockwell.com, in which I proposed relocating Israel to U.S. public lands such as Utah or the Anwar area of Alaska. I was interviewed about this topic by the bizarro quasi-libertarian Eric Dondero on Libertarian Politics Live on Aug. 27, 2007 (Israelis vs. Arabs: Wha...

Kinsella on Liberty Podcast: Episode 013. “Intellectual Property and Libertarianism,” speech presented at Mises University 2009 (July 30, 2009; audio & video; Youtube version embedded below); speech podcast on The Lew Rockwell Show, #131, as The Intellectual Property Racket (Aug. 19, 2009) (archive; mp3, with Lew's introduction). See also: “Intellectual Property and Libertarianism,” Mises Daily (N...

Kinsella on Liberty Podcast: Episode 012. Related Libertarian and Lockean Creationism: Creation As a Source of Wealth, not Property Rights; Hayek’s “Fund of Experience”; the Distinction Between Scarce Means and Knowledge as Guides to Action “Objectivist Law Prof Mossoff on Copyright; or, the Misuse of Labor, Value, and Creation Metaphors,” Mises Economics Blog (April 19, 2011) Locke on IP; Mises,...

Kinsella on Liberty Podcast: Episode 011. This is an interview I did with Lew Rockwell, from 2008: “Intellectual ‘Property,’”, The Lew Rockwell Show (Sept. 24, 2008; archive) (re-podcast as Stephan Kinsella: The Intellectual Property Racket (Aug. 29, 2009). Transcript and Grok analysis below. For more from Lew on IP: “Intellectual Property and Libertarianism,” speech presented at Mises University...

Kinsella on Liberty Podcast: Episode 010. I appeared recently on Decline to State, discussing Locke, property rights, intellectual property, anarchy, and so on; see KOL009. I also participated in the Aftershow. From their description: Show #39.1: Aftershow for January 23 2013 Stephan Kinsella joins us for the aftershow. He answers some listener questions, talks about dispute resolution and contrac...

Kinsella on Liberty Podcast: Episode 009. I appeared recently on Decline to State, discussing Locke, property rights, intellectual property, anarchy, and so on. From their description: Show #39: January 23 2013 with Stephan Kinsella — by The Decline to State team — last modified Jan 29, 2013 02:15 PM The Decline to State team sits down with patent lawyer and libertarian author Stephan Kinsella. We...

This is an audiobook version of my Against Intellectual Property (1 hr 54 min.; narrated by Jock Coats).

Kinsella on Liberty Podcast: Episode 007. This is an audio version of my article "What It Means To Be an Anarcho-Capitalist," LewRockwell.com (Jan. 20, 2004), narrated by yours truly. https://youtu.be/ND-__-6ptGo

This is an audio version of my article How We Come To Own Ourselves, Mises Daily (Sep. 7, 2006) (Mises.org blog discussion; narrated by Graham Wright).

This is an audio version of my article, “What Libertarianism Is,” Mises Daily (August 21, 2009) (narrated by Graham Wright). The article was originally published in Hülsmann & Kinsella, eds., Property, Freedom, and Society: Essays in Honor of Hans-Hermann Hoppe (Mises Institute, 2009).

Kinsella on Liberty Podcast: Episode 004. Update: See also Thoughts on Walter Block on Voluntary Slavery, Alienability vs. Inalienability, Property and Contract, Rothbard and Evers (Jan. 9, 2022); Batting about voluntary slavery (Oct. 5, 2011); Slavery, Inalienability, Economics, and Ethics See also Walter Block's response: Walter E. Block, Block, "Rejoinder to Kinsella on ownership and the volunt...

Kinsella on Liberty Podcast: Episode 003. I was interviewed recently by my friend and The Libertarian Standard co-blogger, libertarian philosopher Geoffrey Allan Plauché, and Matthew Alexander for the inaugural episode of their new Prometheus Unbound Podcast. I’m posting here as KOL episode 003. Prometheus Unbound is an original, well-done, and excellent ”webzine featuring news, reviews, interview...

Kinsella on Liberty Podcast: Episode 002. A reading of one of my earlier IP articles by Ian Freeman on Free Talk Live, from the 8/31/07 show [FTL audio; starts around 5:25]. The article is "Do patents and copyrights undermine private property?: Yes," Insight magazine, May 21, 2001 (containing a response by CEI's James DeLong). [As noted in the first episode, I will occasionally include in the feed...

Kinsella on Liberty Podcast, Episode 001. See also: PFP098 | Stephan Kinsella, The (State's) Corruption of (Private) Law (PFS 2012) I delivered this speech in September 2012 for the 2012 Annual Meeting of the Property and Freedom Society in Bodrum, Turkey. The audio of my speech was corrupted due to a technical error, so I re-recorded a version of the speech; audio and streaming below. For others,...