Kinsella On Liberty

Kinsella on Liberty Podcast, Episode 045. This is lecture 1 (of 6) of my 2011 Mises Academy course “Libertarian Controversies.” I’ll release the remaining lectures here in the podcast feed in upcoming days. This course followed on my speech "Correcting some Common Libertarian Misconceptions," from the 2011 Annual Meeting of the Property and Freedom Society (2011). That talk engendered a good deal...

Kinsella on Liberty Podcast, Episode 044. This is my speech "Correcting Some Common Libertarian Misconceptions," delivered on May 28, 2011, at the Annual Meeting of the Property and Freedom Society. The video is here, and streamed below; here is the powerpoint presentation. Re-presented as PFP076. Transcript available here. Related: KOL 045 | “Libertarian Controversies Lecture 1” (Mises Academy, 2...

Kinsella on Liberty Podcast, Episode 043. This is my appearance on Michael Shanklin’s Triple-V: Voluntary Virtues Vodcast with Michael Shanklin (April 25, 2013). We discussed a variety of issues, including: Bitcoin, the police state, the morality of voting, Rothbard on copyright , the history of patent and copyright, and other issues.

Kinsella on Liberty Podcast, Episode 042. This is a reading of my  paper "Estoppel: A New Justification for Individual Rights," which was published in Reason Papers No. 17 (Fall 1992). It was narrated by Carlos Morales on the Renegade Variety Hour podcast (April 18, 2013). This was the first of my libertarian theory works and a precursor to other articles such as "Punishment and Proportionality: T...

Kinsella on Liberty Podcast, Episode 041. This is from Episode 367 of the Bad Quaker podcast, with Ben Stone.

Kinsella on Liberty Podcast, Episode 040. [Update: KOL186: Great IP Debate with Baker-Kinsella] This is a discussion about IP with a fellow Austro-anarchist libertarian, Alexander Baker, who initially accepted the anti-IP argument I and others have made, but who has since moved to a type of pro-IP position. We had a few email discussions in recent months about this, but I was unable to persuade hi...

Kinsella on Liberty Podcast, Episode 039. I was a guest recently on the Renegade Variety Hour (discussing intellectual property and other issues), with hosts Carlos Morales and Taryn Harris (recorded April 5, 2013, podcast April 10, 2013). I met them at the recent Liberty in the Pines conference and was happy to talk with them.

Kinsella on Liberty Podcast, Episode 038. Update see my post Wenzel the Werewolf Robert Wenzel,  "Kinsela [sic] Constantly Insulted Me, Interrupted Me and Broke His Agreement.", Economic Policy Journal [sic] (May 5, 2014) idem, "Is This What Kinsella Was Afraid Of?", Economic Policy Journal [sic] (May 6, 2014) Bionic Mosquito: Intellectual Property Brouhaha (2013) (IP as contract; Kinsella v. Wenz...

Update: Libertarian and Lockean Creationism: Creation As a Source of Wealth, not Property Rights; Hayek’s “Fund of Experience” A Recurring Fallacy: “IP is a Purer Form of Property than Material Resources” Related: Isaiah Berlin on Locke, Karl Marx and the Labor Theory of Value Locke, Smith, Marx; the Labor Theory of Property and the Labor Theory of Value; and Rothbard, Gordon, and Intellectual Pro...

Kinsella on Liberty Podcast, Episode 036. I was a last-minute guest last week for the Rothbardian Circle (substituting for Dan D'Amico), a Miami-based discussion group, for their event "Introduction to Free Markets/Libertarian Theory" (Mar. 20, 2013). We discussed a variety of issues, mostly in a Q&A format, including the essentials of libertarian property theory, Lockean homesteading, Rothbard's...

Kinsella on Liberty Podcast, Episode 035. This is from my Antiwar Interview: Kinsella on Bill of Rights, Intellectual Property by host Scott Horton (Feb. 11, 2010). We discussed "the federal government’s appropriation of the Bill of Rights – through the 14th Amendment – to regulate state powers, the debate about whether current lawlessness can rightfully be blamed on deviation from the beneficent...

Kinsella on Liberty Podcast, Episode 034. I was a guest yesterday on Jake Shannon's libertarian "Mental Self Defense" radio show discussing intellectual property (what's new). Good host.

Kinsella on Liberty Podcast, Episode 033. I was interviewed back on Jan. 20, 2010 by Mark Edge, as part of his “Edgington Post Interview Series,” for his Free Talk Live radio show, about my Mises Daily article, “Reducing the Cost of IP Law.” The interview is lasts about 35 minutes (it starts at 2:02:36 in the original Jan. 20, 2010 show, which I have trimmed here). Edge conducted an excellent inte...

Kinsella on Liberty Podcast, Episode 032. I was a guest on the Bill Handel Show in late 2009 discussing the libertarian perspective on blackmail, with reference to the Tiger Woods and other cases. (See my post Blackmail should be legal: the case of David Letterman.) We also touched on common law versus legislation [see my Legislation and the Discovery of Law in a Free Society], intellectual proper...

Kinsella on Liberty Podcast, Episode 031. This is my appearance on the Smash Walls Radio Podcast, Episode 9: Patent Shenanigans, with host Trevor Hultner. We discussed patent trolls, the SHIELD Act, and related matters.

Kinsella on Liberty Podcast, Episode 030. This is an interview of Derek Khanna, a conservative/libertarian pro-innovation and pro-free market activist. Khanna was the Congressional staffer who authored a copyright reform brief for the Republican Study Committee (the conservative caucus of House Republicans). The brief was entitled Three Myths about Copyright Law and Where to Start to Fix it, and a...

Kinsella on Liberty Podcast, Episode 029. This is my appearance on Episode 18 of First Degree Liberty: Ethics with Stephan Kinsella, with hosts Chase Rachels and Michael Martelli. We discussed argumentation ethics and the title-transfer theory of contract, and other issues (originally recorded Mar. 4, 2013; released Mar. 5, 2013). For background on some of the issues discussed, see my articles and...

Kinsella on Liberty Podcast, Episode 028. Related Stephan Kinsella, “My Years with the Mises Institute,” Property and Freedom Journal (May 2, 2026) Biographical pieces, including: Alan D. Bergman, Adopting Liberty: The Stephan Kinsella Story (Papinian Press, 2025) KOL028 | The Liberty Movement, Past And Present: Recollections With A Friend From The Beginning (Jack Criss) KOL455 | Haman Nature Hn 1...

Kinsella on Liberty Podcast, Episode 027. I was invited to be a guest on The Peter Mac Show in late 2009 and ended up staying on for both hours. It was a pretty in-depth interview. The host asked impressively intelligent questions for someone who had just started coming around to the anti-IP position (after reading my Intellectual Property and Libertarianism just the day before—impressive). See al...

Kinsella on Liberty Podcast, Episode 026. Corporations: see related links at Kinsella, Corporate Personhood, Limited Liability, and Double Taxation, LibertarianStandard.com (Oct. 18, 2011) This is FreeDomain Radio episode 2336, in which host Stefan Molyneux and I discussed libertarian aspects of corporations and limited liability law. (Originally recorded Feb. 22, 2013, released by FDR on Feb. 26....

Kinsella on Liberty Podcast, Episode 025. This is my appearance on Michael Shanklin's Triple-V: Voluntary Virtues Vodcast with Michael Shanklin (Feb. 26, 2013; originally recorded Feb. 25, 2013). We discussed intellectual property and a few other matters, such as the Ron Paul vs RonPaul. Com dispute, Aaron Swartz, Corporatism, and the like. For the initial discussion of IP and what is wrong with i...

Kinsella on Liberty Podcast, Episode 024. I previously podcasted my speech from September 2012 at the 2012 Annual Meeting of the Property and Freedom Society in Bodrum, Turkey (KOL001 | "The (State's) Corruption of (Private) Law" (PFS 2012)). Later that day I and the other speakers from that day, including Jeff Tucker and Hans-Hermann Hoppe, participated in a general panel discussion and Q&A sessi...

Kinsella on Liberty Podcast: Episode 023. This is lecture 6 (of 6) of my 2011 Mises Academy course “Libertarian Legal Theory: Property, Conflict, and Society.” This lecture's topic is "Applications Continued; Common Libertarian Mistakes (Fraud Etc.)," and discusses: Defense of corporations Common libertarian mistakes Self-ownership Positive obligations Fraud

Kinsella on Liberty Podcast: Episode 022b. This is lecture 5b (in addition to the 6 main lectures) of my 2011 Mises Academy course “Libertarian Legal Theory: Property, Conflict, and Society.” The main lectures start at KOL018. 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)....

Kinsella on Liberty Podcast: Episode 022. This is lecture 5 (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 "Intellectual Property and Related," and discusses: Overview of types of IP Origins of IP The nature of property rights, role of scarcity, and...