Kinsella On Liberty

Kinsella on Liberty Podcast: Episode 466. https://youtu.be/JAwxQTrPDII Re .@NSKinsella has proposed a number of patent reforms if we decide as a society not to abolish the patent system. This is, in my view, a more plausible way forward (politically) instead of demanding the abolition of patents.https://t.co/q3a0U2HQJ6 In this annotated extract, I… https://t.co/Jm36N2kjxa pic.twitter.com/Fs1caiVve...

Kinsella on Liberty Podcast: Episode 465. Update: Economics Isn’t “About” Anything!, 03/02/2026 • Power & Market  Ash Navabi On stupid and confused "thickism" see various posts under tag thickism, and Cory Massimino, "Libertarianism is More than Anti-Statism," C4SS (April 8th, 2014). GROK SHOWNOTES: [0:00–9:16] In this engaging episode of the Kinsella on Liberty podcast, Stephan Kinsella and Sheld...

Kinsella on Liberty Podcast: Episode 464. I appeared on the new show Tyrant's Den a few days ago. It was released today (May 2, 2025) along with the other initial episodes. Chat GPT shownotes: In this engaging episode of The Tyrants' Den, host and guest delve into a wide-ranging discussion with Stephan Kinsella, a leading libertarian legal theorist and retired patent attorney. The conversation beg...

Kinsella on Liberty Podcast: Episode 463. Update: See also KOL338 | Human Action Podcast Ep. 308 with Jeff Deist: Rothbard on Punishment, Property, and Contract and this Grok analysis of various problems with smart contracts including the fact that most loans are unsecured. A followup discussion with André Simoni of Brazil about some questions he had about applying my/Rothbard’s title-transfer. Se...

Kinsella on Liberty Podcast: Episode 462. I previously appeared on Joshua Smith's Break the Cycle, in July 2021 (KOL349 | CouchStreams Ep 58 on Break the Cycle with Joshua Smith). I had forgotten but we also did a short "CouchStreams After Hours" segment for subscribers which was, and still is, behind a paywall. We discussed various things—my scooter ride with Antony Sammeroff in Austin and travel...

Kinsella on Liberty Podcast: Episode 461. Related: God as Slaveowner; Conversations with Murphy This is my appearance on Adam Haman’s podcast and Youtube channel, Haman Nature (Haman Nature substack), episode HN 119, “Stephan Kinsella Expounds on Philosophy And The Life Well Lived” (recorded Feb. 6, 2025—just before the Tom Woods cruise). We discussed philosophy and rights; my legal and libertaria...

Kinsella on Liberty Podcast: Episode 460. I mean the title says it all. I kept getting interrupted by calls and deliveries. Oh well, what you gonna do. Links/Resourceshttps://youtu.be/rnDe920Ce40 China and IP "Theft" Lacalle on China and IP “Theft” All-In Podcast Concern over China and IP “Theft” More of the “China is Stealing Our IP” nonsense Tweet by Gordon Chang “To Steal a Book is an Elegant O...

Kinsella on Liberty Podcast: Episode 459. In response to lots of froth on Twitter related to Jack Dorsey's call to "delete all IP law," which was echoed by Elon Musk (Musk and Dorsey: “delete all IP law”) I decided to attempt to host an impromptu Twitter Spaces about this. After overcoming some technical glitches, here is the result (and thanks to @Brunopbch, @NotGovernor (Patrick Smith), and @Tru...

Kinsella on Liberty Podcast: Episode 458. The meat of this talk is only about 15 minutes, if you skip the first couple minutes of setup and the Q&A at the end. See also Self-Ownership, Natural Rights, Estoppel (CEES Guatemala 2025) GROK SHOWNOTES: In this episode of the Kinsella on Liberty Podcast (KOL458), recorded on April 7, 2025, at the APEE 49th Meeting in Guatemala City, libertarian patent a...

Kinsella on Liberty Podcast: Episode 457. I had been meaning to talk to my old friend Sheldon Richman, of the Libertarian Institute and TGIF column, about his own IP Odyssey, as he's always been great on this issue, (( My IP Odyssey; as quoted in “Your failed business model is not my problem”; Sheldon Richman, “Patent Nonsense," IP Debate Breaks Out at FEE. Others, e.g. Richman, The Articles of Co...

Kinsella on Liberty Podcast: Episode 456. 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 455. I interviewed/had a discussion with my first IP law boss today, William C. (Bill) Norvell, Jr., about our time together when I was a new lawyer, his love of opera and so on, and his views on politics, war, Trump, and his views on the patent and IP system based on his years of experience as a patent prosecutor and patent ligitator. Bill, previously a parter...

Kinsella on Liberty Podcast: Episode 454. My recent appearance on The Rational Egoist. (Spotify; Youtube) Shownotes: Michael engages in a lively debate with Stephan Kinsella, a libertarian theorist and anarcho-capitalist, as they explore key issues that divide Objectivists and libertarians. They discuss topics such as intellectual property, the role of the state, and foundational philosophical dif...

Kinsella on Liberty Podcast: Episode 453. I was approached recently by my old friend, legal scholar and philosopher David Koepsell (a fellow opponent of IP who appeared on the John Stossel show with me a few years back), (( KOL308 | Stossel: It’s My Idea (2015). )) as one of his students at Texas A&M, Eliot Kalinov, was interested in my and Hoppe's work on argumentation ethics and related issues....

Kinsella on Liberty Podcast: Episode 452. I was asked recently to guest lecture for a course taught to some mechanical engineering students at Colorado University Boulder (EMEN 4100: Engineering Economics) by the lecturer, David Assad. Assad covers some ethics related matters in the latter part of the course and asked me to talk generally about ethics and related matters. I discussed ethics, moral...

Kinsella on Liberty Podcast: Episode 451. My recent appearance on The Rational Egoist. (Spotify) Shownotes: Debating the Nature of Rights with Stephan Kinsella In this episode of The Rational Egoist, host Michael Liebowitz engages in a stimulating debate with libertarian writer and patent attorney Stephan Kinsella on the nature of rights. Drawing from his book Legal Foundations of a Free Society a...

Kinsella on Liberty Podcast, Episode 450. My discussion/interview by Matthew Sands of the Nations of Sanity project as part of his “Together Strong” debate series. Grok shownotes: [0:00–30:00] In this episode of the Kinsella on Liberty podcast (KOL450), Stephan Kinsella is interviewed by Matthew Sands of the Nations of Sanity project for the “Together Strong” debate series, with Econ Bro as a co-p...

Kinsella on Liberty Podcast, Episode 449. I was interviewed by Logan Hertz, of Hazeltine LLC, about attempts by the Nelson Nash Institute, they of the poorly-named "Infinite Banking" concept, to use trademark to bully competitors. I discuss the general problem with IP and then apply it to trademark, and provide suggestions as to more "ethical" ways of using trademark and IP in an IP-world. See als...

Kinsella on Liberty Podcast, Episode 448. This is my discussion with European patent attorney David Pearce, of the Tufty the Cat European IP blog (twitter). He and I were co-founders and members of the Advisory Council for the Open Crypto Alliance (2020–22). We discuss Craig Wright, nChain and bitcoin related patents, and so on (see video below). https://youtu.be/3B1R_aTdQ0I https://youtu.be/AJmPr...

Kinsella on Liberty Podcast, Episode 447. This is from the show "Axioms of Liberty," which has another episode about my IP writing. This time, it's a reading of "Law and Intellectual Property in a Stateless Society."

Kinsella on Liberty Podcast, Episode 446. This is from the show "Axioms of Liberty," which has another episode about my IP writing. This time, it's a reading of "Intellectual Property and Libertarianism."

Kinsella on Liberty Podcast, Episode 445. The show "Axioms of Liberty" has an episode about my IP writing, including readings of three early pieces: First, one of my earliest writings, Stephan Kinsella, "Letter on Intellectual Property Rights," IOS Journal 5, no. 2 (June 1995), pp. 12-13, and followed by David Kelley's response. Next, “Is Intellectual Property Legitimate?”, first published in the...

Kinsella on Liberty Podcast, Episode 444. Update: Michael S. Milano, "Privacy and Fungibility: The Forgotten Virtues of Sound Money," Mises Wire (07/05/2025). I had forgotten about this conversation with "AlexAnarcho" back in May 2024. Here it is. https://youtu.be/WxXFTUDYQ0I Property rights, ideas & fungibility w/ Stephan Kinsella released 05/02/2024 Stephan Kinsella is a pioneer on the topic of...

Kinsella on Liberty Podcast, Episode 443. Related: Abortion Correspondence with Doris Gordon, Libertarians For Life (1996) (June 14, 2023) Abortion: A Radically Decentralist Libertarian Solution (Grok) Walter Block, "Does Trespassing Require Human Action? Rejoinder to Kinsella and Armoutidis an Evictionism," MEST Journal (forthcoming 2025) Jake Desyllas, Argumentation Ethics Entails Self Ownership...

Kinsella on Liberty Podcast, Episode 442. Related: “The Title-Transfer Theory of Contract,” "A Libertarian Theory of Contract: Title Transfer, Binding Promises, and Inalienability" and "Inalienability and Punishment: A Reply to George Smith," in Legal Foundations of a Free Society (Houston, Texas: Papinian Press, 2023) This is a debate between me and Walter Block about voluntary slavery contracts,...