Kinsella On Liberty

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...

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...