Kinsella On Liberty

Kinsella on Liberty Podcast, Episode 064. This is my appearance on the Katherine Albrecht radio show, discussing net neutrality (Dec. 22, 2010). For more information, see my post Against Net Neutrality. Here is the link to the show page for this episode.

Kinsella on Liberty Podcast, Episode 063. I was a guest on the “Live and Let Live” radio show with Gary Johnson discussing IP (Nov. 14, 2010).

Kinsella on Liberty Podcast, Episode 062. This is my speech "Intellectual Freedom and Learning versus Patent and Copyright," at the 2010 Students For Liberty Texas Regional Conference (report), University of Texas, Austin. I discussed this previously in my post  Kinsella Speech at Students for Liberty – Texas Conference (Austin), on “Intellectual Freedom vs Patent and Copyright”. An edited transcr...

Kinsella on Liberty Podcast, Episode 061. This is my speech “How Intellectual Property Hampers Capitalism,” from the Mises Institute Supporters’ Summit: “The Economic Recovery:  Washington’s Big Lie” (Oct. 9 2010, Auburn Alabama). A transcript is here; see also the article based on this talk: “How Intellectual Property Hampers the Free Market,” The Freeman (June 2011). The Youtube video is embedde...

Kinsella on Liberty Podcast, Episode 060. This is a Discussion of intellectual property and libertarianism on Ernest Hancock's Declare Your Independence radio show (Sep. 14, 2010). I was on the 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 (update: I since met Ernie in...

Kinsella on Liberty Podcast, Episode 059. From: Libertarian Parenting--A Freedomain Radio Conversation with Stephan Kinsella, FreeDomain Radio #1689 (Thursday, 1 Jul 2010): "Two libertarian parents discuss how to best raise confident and freethinking children, including discipline without aggression, spanking, Montessori education, resolving conflicts and teaching skepticism and rationality." See...

Kinsella on Liberty Podcast, Episode 058. I appeared on the Gene Basler Show (May 30, 2010), 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 (an edited transcript to...

Kinsella on Liberty Podcast, Episode 057. 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.

Kinsella on Liberty Podcast, Episode 056. 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 (also podcast at Freedomain Radio #1659: “The Immigration Roundtable – BlogTalkRadio with Stephan Kinsella, Wilt Alston and Stefan Molyneux: A roundtable discus...

Kinsella on Liberty Podcast, Episode 055. This is from The Voluntary Life, Author Interview: Stephan Kinsella on Against Intellectual Property (March 20, 2010; also podcast as Episode 1616 of Freedomain Radio, as Stefan Molyneux joined in too). Interviewed by Jake. See also their interesting episode Against Intellectual Property: A Follow Up Discussion. https://youtu.be/HnXgJZXfY7g?si=etBFxpbep0tu...

Kinsella on Liberty Podcast, Episode 054. This is my speech from the Fifth Annual Meeting of the Property and Freedom Society in Bodrum, Turkey (June 6, 2010). My topic was “Ideas are Free: The Case Against Intellectual Property,” though a better title might be something like “Ideas Are Not Property:  The Libertarian IP Mistake and the Structure of Human Action.” Also podcast here: PFP064 | Stepha...

Kinsella on Liberty Podcast, Episode 053. Author’s Forum: Property, Freedom and Society, Austrian Scholars Conference (March 11, 2010). This is from a short speech at the Austrian Scholars Conference 2010, "Authors Forum: Property, Freedom and Society" about Property, Freedom and Society: Essays in Honor of Hans-Hermann Hoppe (Mar. 11, 2010).

Kinsella on Liberty Podcast, Episode 052. I was a guest recently on the Renegade Variety Hour , discussing a variety of libertarian issues with hosts Carlos Morales and Taryn Harris (May 8, 2013), including argumentation ethics and estoppel (see Argumentation Ethics and Liberty: A Concise Guide), atheism, and related matters.

Kinsella on Liberty Podcast, Episode 051. This is a short, informal discussion with a good friend of mine, patent attorney Mark Gilbreth (email). A fairly a-libertarian and a-political type, we talked about some of the practical and political aspects of patent law practice. Mark is an experienced chemical engineer-specialized patent attorney (I am electrical). We met in 1998 when we both were adju...

Kinsella on Liberty Podcast, Episode 050. This is lecture 6 (of 6) of my 2011 Mises Academy course “Libertarian Controversies.” 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 of discussion and interest, but in the time allotted for a single speech I was...

Kinsella on Liberty Podcast, Episode 049. This is lecture 5 (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 048. This is lecture 4 (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 047. This is lecture 3 (of 6) of my 2011 Mises Academy course “Libertarian Controversies.”  This talk covered "Even More Misconceptions," such as state vs. government, "limited" government, Hoppe on monarchy vs. democracy, federalism, restitution and punishment, positive obligations, and other issues. Slides for this lecture are appended below. For background i...

Kinsella on Liberty Podcast, Episode 046. This is lecture 2 (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 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...