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Libertarian Answer Man: Joint Ownership (Co-ownership)

Esteemed Mr. Kinsella,

I originally intended to pose this question during one of your livestreams with a donation, but I noticed that you unfortunately do not take questions in that format.

I am a libertarian, and I am currently striving to study our theory more deeply. Recently, I had the pleasure of reading your chapter “A Libertarian Theory of Contract: Title Transfer, Binding Promises, and Inalienability.” I found your title-transfer theory of contract especially compelling. [continue reading…]

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Libertarian Answer Man: Intent in Action, Strict Liability

Dear Stephan,

Sorry to bother you again; I know you are busy with the upcoming PFS event and likely have no time to be answering questions all the time, so feel free to backlog this for a later date or just refer me to any previously-written sources if you deem it necessary. [continue reading…]

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Libertarian Answer Man: Argumentation Ethics and Nihilist Egoism

Related:

Dear Mr. Kinsella,

My name is [], I’m [] years old and live in Türkiye. I’m reading libertarian philosophy and Austrian economics, and I also came across your writings on argumentation ethics; I found them very informative. [continue reading…]

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Dear Dr. Hoppe, and Stephan:

I just finished having a debate with someone over the idea that receiving State welfare is aggression. I defended the stance that it is not inherently aggression (for the aggression is committed by the State when it taxes people, not by the welfare recipient), while he defended the idea that it is aggression. His argument was that when one receives money from the State, that money has a legitimate owner, and that at the very least one cannot receive more from the State than one has paid to it. [continue reading…]

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Libertarian Nation and Related Projects

[From my Webnote series]

Related:

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The Maksima Declaration

Yet another entry to be added to the list of libertarian movements and projects (Libertarian Nation and Related Projects): The Maksima Declaration:

Maksima is an inspiration community that is building a political, ideological and spiritual movement based on The Maksima Declaration.

Maksima will eventually launch a main project, in addition to four sub-projects. The name of the main project is The Progenitor Temple. The four sub-projects are The Real Jesus, War on Dullards, Free Brothels, and War on Levelers. Each project serves a specific purpose.

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Walter Block sent me a draft article “Does Trespassing Require Human Action? Rejoinder to Kinsella and Armoutidis an Evictionism,” MEST Journal (forthcoming 2025) and “invited” me to respond, whatever that means (I guess it means: “please change your priorities to suit my goals and spend your time writing this the article I want you to write instead of whatever article you were planning on writing”), presumably in aid of his stated goal of publishing 1000 peer reviewed or law review articles. 1 I assume he counts “MEST Journal,” whatever that is, as peer reviewed even though it seems unlikely it is actually refereed (he has four articles in 2025 alone in that journal). 2 I know from personal experience editing Libertarian Papers for ten years and from other publishing and peer reviewing experience how difficult and time-consuming it is. There is no way MEST Journal publishes this many papers and actually has them peer reviewed. But no matter. [continue reading…]

  1. Numerous personal emails; Stephan Kinsella, “A Tour Through Walter Block’s Oeuvre” (May 9, 2024): text at n.3. []
  2. E.g., from Vol 13, No 1 (2025): REJOINDER TO RECTENWALD ON SUPPOSED ISRAELI WAR CRIMES and REJOINDER TO RECTENWALD ON SUPPOSED ISRAELI WAR CRIMES; from Vol 13, No 2 (2025): REJOINDER TO JOFFE ON THE COMPATIBILITY OF LIBERTARIANISM AND ZIONISM and REJOINDER TO ORWELLIAN LIBERTARIANISM: GORDON AND NJOYA’S TOPSY-TURVY WORLD OF TWILIGHT ZONE LIBERTARIANISM. []
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Kinsella’s Favorite Podcasts

My podcast consumption has varied over the years. Of late, here are the main ones I listen to when I find time—driving, walking, falling to sleep (some are only on youtube and do not appear to have a podcast feed or home, despite being referred to as a podcast). I listen to many others; these are the main ones in my current rotation.

I am sure I’m missing several; I may update this list from time to time.

  1. Chamath Palihapitiya, IP and “Knowledge in Buckets” Confusion. []
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Labor Day: Worst Day of the Year

I dub Labor Day the worst day of the year. Worse even than the Fourth of July 1 and artificial holidays like Christmas and Mother’s Day. No, not for typical libertarian reasons but because Locke and then Smith have corrupted our understanding of “labor” and its relation to property rights, value, wealth, and economics, with the hoary and stupid labor theory of property and the labor theory of value and countless confused arguments in favor of evil intellectual property.

See KOL037 | Locke’s Big Mistake: How the Labor Theory of Property Ruined Political Theory

  1. Down with the Fourth of July. []
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Re: KOL418 | Corporations, Limited Liability, and the Title Transfer Theory of Contract, with Jeff Barr: Part II; see comments there.

From Brian Moss:

Stephan thanks for replying to my questions in the comments section of KOL418. [continue reading…]

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Abraham Thomas’s Truth

One “Abraham Thomas” sent me a manuscript with this note:

Your work on intellectual freedom and principled liberty has been formative for me. In Truth, I take on the subject from a broader perspective, exploring honesty as the foundation of both individual dignity and collective flourishing.

It would be a privilege if you might consider endorsing my book.

I routinely get these kind of submissions and requests. Not aware that this is published or public, so I don’t post it here.

I fed it into Grok and axed Grok:

evaluate the manucrript Truth by Thomas Abraham attached. Summarize its approach and thesis, and compare it to the approach of kinsella, attached. How would Kinsella view this argument? Is it complete, coherent, successful, libertarian, and compatible with Kinsella’s approach? Does it cite or show awareness of the arguments of Rothbard, Kinsella, Hoppe?

Grok report/analysis: [continue reading…]

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Brother and Sister Eulogies

My brother, Michael, died unexpectedly last year, and my sister Sheila this year. My eulogies and other information and pictures below. More about them sprinkled throughout Alan D. Bergman, Adopting Liberty: The Stephan Kinsella Story (2025) (see Kinsella Biography: Adopting Liberty).

One of the two local Catholic churches we attended when I grew up, as the Parish lines kept changing. Mike and I were altar boys at the other one.

 

Sheila

Sheila obituary. [continue reading…]

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