Kinsella on Liberty

Kinsella on Liberty Podcast: Episode 472. This is my second talk this morning at Jayant Bhandari's (@JayantBhandari5) Capitalism & Morality 2025 (Vancouver) conference. Part 1: KOL471 | “What Is Property? And What Is Not? — Part 1," Capitalism & Morality (Vancouver). https://youtu.be/T-hBIZMYPro?si=TGjZCGr9nHj8iJdI In my first talk I focused on the the role of scarce means (conflictable resources)...

Kinsella on Liberty Podcast: Episode 471. This is my talk this morning at Jayant Bhandari's (@JayantBhandari5) Capitalism & Morality 2025 (Vancouver) conference. It was followed later that day by Part 2, Fireside Chat with Albert Lu, whose podcast I've been on in the past. (( KOL193 | The Economy with Albert Lu: On IP and Double Counting (3/3); KOL192 | The Economy with Albert Lu: On the Legal Sig...

Kinsella on Liberty Podcast: Episode 468. Related: Libertarian Answer Man: Co-ownership and Ownership and Punishment of Criminals Libertarian Answer Man: Joint Ownership (Co-ownership) and Future, Conditional Title Transfers Armoutidis, Who Owns Public Property? Libertarian Property Theory and the Problem of Immigration From a Twitter Space organized by @Kasimir, joined by LiquidZulu and others. I...

Kinsella on Liberty Podcast: Episode 430. This is my presentation, “An Insider’s Introduction to Austrian Economics,” Bastiat Society—Houston, American Institute for Economic Research, The Briar Club, Houston Texas (May 2, 2024). From their shownotes: Join AIER’s Bastiat Society program in Houston for an event with Stephan Kinsella, libertarian writer and registered patent attorney in Houston. Mr....

An audio version of my 2009 article, “What Libertarianism Is,” Mises Daily (August 21, 2009), has been produced, narrated by Graham Wright (audio file). Update: See also the version by Duma Denga of ManPatria (KOL422).    

I was a guest last night on FreeTalkLive (Sunday, Aug. 21, 2011), discussing intellectual property with Sunday hosts Mark Edge and Stephanie. We talked for about an hour and a half, from 7pm-830pm EDT and had a good, wide-ranging discussion. A few callers called in near the end. This was the FTL debut on XM satellite radio's "Extreme Talk", XM 165. The show is now available on the podcast feed her...

André Roberfroid, President of Association Montessori Internationale I've discussed my thoughts on the Montessori educational method previously (see my article Montessori, Peace, and Libertarianism; also my posts Montessori and “Unschooling”; Bullying and Libertarianism; Libertarian Parenting–A Freedomain Radio Conversation). Last week the excellent KERA radio program "Think" had a great interview...

Some humorous emails from my legal blog: Professional Courtesy August 20, 2004 According to the attorney who sent it to me: this was a voicemail message “that an associate at Winston & Strawn left for an associate at Latham. Latham is representing a borrower in a real estate transaction and W&S; represents the lender. I don’t know what correspondence preceded the voicemail but as I understand it,...

UPDATE: SEE KOL079 | “Federalist Society IP Debate (Ohio State)” (2011) Last week I participated in a debate on IP at the The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law Student Chapter of The Federalist Society (Moritz College of Law, Ohio State University, Columbus OH, March 3, 2011). This was part of the "John Templeton Foundation’s Big Questions Debate series on Intellectual Property and Wealt...

I was a guest on the Feb. 15, 2011 episode of Thinking Liberty, "an interactive libertarian anarchist talk program." We talked for quite a while about IP; the hosts asked very intelligent questions. (My segment is from about 25:00 to 1:16:00.) (local MP3 file) (KOL Podcast version)

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My article, "Intellectual Freedom and Learning Versus Patent and Copyright," was published today in Economic Notes (No. 113, Jan. 18, 2011), a publication of the UK-based Libertarian Alliance. (This article is based on my speech of Nov. 6, 2010, at the 2010 Students for Liberty Texas Regional Conference, University of Texas, Austin; audio and video versions may be found here; see also below.) [It...

In a comment to his post on Sarah Palin, Sheldon Richman writes: I don't see that it's obvious that the Supreme Court has been dishonest about the Constitution. It was written as a deliberately vague document designed to satisfy multiple interests. It's very much an inkblot. Madison said it contained "few and defined" powers, yet he also endorsed the doctrine of implied powers. Let's get real. The...

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I appeared yesterday on Ernest Hancock's Declare Your Independence radio show for about two hours (hours 2 and 3 of his show) discussing intellectual property. It was a pretty wide-ranging, radical discussion, but I think I made progress with Ernie. The MP3 files are on the show's page for that day; local files: hour 1; hour 2; hour 3.

That I did not cross-post here: Stefan Molyneux’s “Libertarian Parenting” Series Stefan Molyneux, of Freedomain Radio, has recently had a very interesting series of interviews on “libertarian parenting”. The three guests (so far?) were me, my fellow TLS blogger Gil Guillory, and just today, David Friedman. The MP3s for the first two, and the YouTube videos for all three, are below. All three had d...

I will collect here links to various articles or discussions about how authors, etc. can make money without relying on the copyright monopoly model. Please feel free to email suggestions or add them to the comments; I'll update this post from time to time. “Innovations that Thrive without IP,” StephanKinsella.com (Aug. 9, 2010) FDA and Patent Reform: A Modest Proposal Francis Ford Coppola, copyfig...

I recently attended at the Fifth Annual Meeting of the Property and Freedom Society in Bodrum, Turkey (see my Bodrum Days and Nights: The Fifth Annual Meeting of the Property and Freedom Society: A Partial Report). I delivered a speech entitled "Ideas are Free: The Case Against Intellectual Property." The speech following mine was by one Terence Kealey, a biochemist at the University of Buckingham...

UPDATE: SEE KOL 054 | “Ideas are Free: The Case Against Intellectual Property: or, How Libertarians Went Wrong” (2010, Property and Freedom Society)   Earlier this month, I spoke at the Fifth Annual Meeting of the Property and Freedom Society in Bodrum, Turkey (see my Bodrum Days and Nights: The Fifth Annual Meeting of the Property and Freedom Society: A Partial Report). My topic was "Ideas are Fr...

I was a guest on the Gene Basler show tonight (formerly called anarcho-environmentalism) discussing a variety of anarcho-libertarian matters--environmentalism, nuclear power, state propaganda in government schools, class action lawsuits, reparations, how to achieve an anarcho-libertarian society, animal rights, positive rights and obligations, forced heirship, and so on (local MP3 file). Listen to...

China is widely viewed as a "threat" to the US because of its perceived rapid and unstoppable economic growth. This is, in my view, doubly confused. First: if the premise were true, this would be good, not bad. Second: I don't think China is in such great shape. Unfortunately. Some free market economists think otherwise. Peter Schiff "predicts that China will overtake the U.S in terms of Gross Dom...

I was on The Peter Mac Show on May 12, 2010, with my fellow Libertarian Standard co-blogger Rob Wicks. We discussed a variety of matters, including whether libertarians should use the word "capitalism," also anarchy, IP and other topics. The MP3 file is here.

I was a guest on the May 9, 2010 episode of BlogTalkRadio’s show Anarchy Time, hosted by James Cox. Other guests included C4SS Development Specialist Mariana Evica, Wilt Alston, and Stefan Molyneux. (Local MP3.)

Fellow guest Becky Akers and I discussed anarchy, the role of education in fighting statism, and related matters, with host Don Cooper on his Qaoss Talk Radio show, April 10, 2010. The show is archived here (local MP3).

From Stefan Molyneux's post on the Mises forum: The Freedomain Radio Book Club had a great discussion with Stephan about intellectual property which I thought you might enjoy... FDR1616 Stephan Kinsella on Intellectual Property from Freedomain Radio Play Now We did this yesterday, Mar. 20, 2010. It was about an hour and was a nice, intelligent discussion of IP and related libertarian issues. (Loca...