Kinsella on Liberty

TCLP 2010-02-24 Interview: Nina Paley This is a feature cast, an episode of The Command Line Podcast. [mp3 ; flac] No listener feedback this week. Due to the length of the interview, there is also no new hacker word of the week this week. The feature this week is an interview with cartoonist and animator, Nina Paley, creator of “Sita Sings the Blues“. I’ve spoken and written about Nina’s story bef...

see KOL 035 | Antiwar Interview: Federalism, Bill of Rights, Constitutional Sentimentalism, IP (2010)

Jeff Tucker was interviewed yesterday by Mark Edge, as part of his “Edgington Post Interview Series,” for his Free Talk Live radio show, about the Mises Institute's "open information" approach (see Jeff Tucker, A Theory of Open, B.K. Marcus, Mises.org on iTunes U, Doug French, The Intellectual Revolution Is in Process). The interview is lasts about 24 minutes, and starts at 2:52:07 in the Feb. 8,...

I was interviewed yesterday 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, and starts at 2:02:36 in the Jan. 20, 2010 show (MP3). Edge conducted an excellent interview--very informed and interesting. And, like many others, he's come around to the...

Great comment about Thomas Paine by Bill Stepp on this thread: Paine forfeited his copyright in "Common Sense" so that any printer could publish it (this was prompted by a dispute with his printer, if memory serves), but he later defended copyright. For what it's worth, he also defended the evil Pennsylvania Test Oaths, and expounded a variant of socialism in land in "Agrarian Justice." A few more...

SEE NOW: [KOL027] I was invited to be a guest on The Peter Mac Show last night 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 (!)). The MP3 files are here: hour 1; hour 2...

Manuel, Lew, David -- Yes, we should not be surprised at this. Hans Hoppe once noted that f you want to win the Nobel peace prize, it helps if you are a mass murderer; if you want to win the economics Nobel prize, it is always of advantage if you have contributed to ruining various countries' economies or you have written completely irrelevant mathematical treatises that are of no concern to anyon...

As noted on LewRockwell.com, there's a wonderful Rap video by a young libertarian rapper, Neema V (from Houston, so he's my homie). See the video below, and a great short interview by him on FreeTalkLive, in which Neema V goes on about the influence Ron Paul, Lew Rockwell, and Butler Shaffer had on him (Shaffer's book Boundaries of Order is featured in the video). This young man is intelligent, th...

It's a tragedy Rothbard died in 1995, before he could finish his History of Economic Thought series. At the time of his death, he had only published volumes I and II (epub and PDF files available here). However, as noted in the Mises store entry for Vol. III, The History of Economic Thought: From Marx to Hayek, although he "died before he could write his third volume of his famous History of Econo...

At Recovery or Stagnation?, a Mises Circle held in San Francisco on August 29, 2009, there was a great Speakers' Panel featuring Walter Block, Thomas DiLorenzo, Douglas French, and Robert Murphy. Great comments on the current financial mess. One thing that especially interested me were Walter Block's comments from about 12:45 to 13:35, where he distinguishes between economic theory and one's abili...

[Update: see various biographical pieces on my publications page, including Alan D. Bergman, Adopting Liberty: The Stephan Kinsella Story (2025).] Gary North delivered a wonderful lecture last month during Mises University 2009 (the same day I gave my own speech), "Calling and Career as an Austrian School Scholar" (a shorter version of this was in the LRC podcast 127. Gary North: Making a Differen...

Here are some of my older AgainstMonopoly.org blogposts, which were not cross-referenced here (but will be going forward): The IP Dogs! The post Animal Abuse mentions the state's use of "DVD-sniffing anti-piracy dogs."Res ipsa loquitur. [Posted at 06/03/2009 08:53 AM by Stephan Kinsella on IP as a Joke comments(0)] Imagining the Fate of Copyright in a Future World There's been much talk lately of...

Local copy of: Do patents and copyrights undermine private property?: Yes, Insight magazine, May 21, 2001 (reading of and discussion of this piece by hosts at Free Talk Live, 8/31/07 show; audio is here [starts around 5:25]) (Web archive version of the article.) symposium Q: Do patents and copyrights undermine private property? Yes: They are a burden to marketplace transactions and discourage busi...