As mentioned at Liberty Magazine Archives, I have am now hosting all back print issues of Liberty online. Enjoy! (But only if you oppose copyright!)

Most of us principled, anti-state libertarians are deed admirers of Rothbard. Hoppe has written glowingly of Rothbard’s singular genius, assessment I share. As Hoppe has written,

And there was a certain amount of, I would say, jealousy, because, I mean, Rothbard was enormously bright. I’ve met bright people in my life, but the only person I’ve met whom I would consider to be a genius was Rothbard. He could tell you the the content of every book in his library. And that wasan enormous library. Whenever you would ask him about any strange subject, he could give you some suggestions on what to read. You felt like a little, urn, uneducated person if you talked to him. So jealousy played a big role in explaining why it was that he was not treated like a genius, as he should have been treated. [continue reading…]

From the Property and Freedom Society:

PFS 2026 Annual Meeting—Speakers and Topics

PFS 2026, the Annual Meeting of the Property and Freedom Society, hosted by Drs. Gülçin & Hans Hoppe, will be held in Bodrum, Turkey, at the Hotel Karia Princess from Thursday, September 17, 2026 to Tuesday, September 22, 2026. As the inaugural meeting was held in 2006 and the 2020 meeting was canceled due to covid restrictions, this will be the twentieth annual meeting of the PFS held over the past twenty years. [continue reading…]

For years I’ve remembered Woody Allen was rumored to have said he once visited the country but didn’t like it because there was no scenery. But internet searches could not find or verify this.

I just happened to stumble across it in Richard Kostelanetz, “I’ll Take Manhattan,” Liberty (Jan. 1995) (pdf), pp. 43–44. Sub-titled “City air makes men free,” it has the line I’ve been remembering all these years: [continue reading…]

The PFS will publish a collection of tributes to and commentary on Rothbard, on the occasion of his 100th birthday on March 2, 2026, from several longtime PFS members, including many who knew him personally.

The commentary will be published on the PFS website on March 2, and later this year as a small book, Rothbard at 100: A Tribute and Assessment, Stephan Kinsella and Hans-Hermann Hoppe, eds. (forthcoming 2026). Further details here.

The Spring 2024 issue of The Independent Review (Vol 28, no. 4) contains a symposium dedicated to Murray Rothbard’s For a New Liberty: The Libertarian Manifesto (first published over 50 years ago, in 1973), with the following contributions:

• A Vision of a Productive Free Society: Murray Rothbard’s For a New Liberty, by Robert M. Whaples
• For a New Liberty after Fifty Years, by David Gordon
• Libertarianism, Oversimplified, by Matt Zwolinski
• Seeing the State through For a New Liberty, by Jason Lee Byas
• Privatize the Public Sector: Murray Rothbard’s Stateless Libertarian Society, by Randall G. Holcombe
• Conservation, Ecology, and Growth in For a New Liberty, by Peter C. Earle, Ryan M. Yonk
• Murray Rothbard on War and Foreign Policy, by Christopher J. Coyne, Yuliya Yatsyshina

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LewRockwell.com Blog Flashback. See also Panhandling Middle-Class Kids.

Big Charity
By Stephan Kinsella
September 15, 2009

Roderick Long in a recent post asks us to consider the following proposition: “1. Big business and big government are (for the most part) natural allies.” As I noted there, “Do you mean big business as it exists in today’s world, or big business per se? If the former, you have a point (and from my quick read I don’t disagree with any of your other points). But to argue for the latter interpretation would imply that there could be no big business in a free society.” [continue reading…]

Recent paper: Wojciech Gamrot, “The Labor Theory Of Property Does Not Mandate Easements,” Social Communication 27, no. 2 (2025): 59–68.

Abstract:

Some libertarian theorists advocate for recognizing easements by necessity. In specific circumstances they would guarantee the right of passage through the land that is already owned. One popular argument in favor of such easements concerns a situation where landowners’ exercise of their property rights prevents others from entering non homesteaded areas and taking them into ownership. The argument holds that a firstcomer who mixed labor with some parcel that blocks access to unowned land de facto owns that land as well. It is argued that such a property right is self-contradictory because the only legitimate method of original appropriation is labor mixing and the firstcomer actually acquires the virgin land without doing so.  Easements of necessity are then postulated as a means to rectify this alleged contradiction. In the present paper this argument in favor of easements is examined and refuted.

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Jeffrey Tucker’s recent article, “Small Steps Toward Medical Freedom,” The Epoch Times (Jan. 6, 2026) has several provocative “urgent priorities for U.S. medical-insurance reform”. Writes Tucker: [continue reading…]

[From my Webnote series]

Stephan Kinsella, “Law and Intellectual Property in a Stateless Society,” in Legal Foundations of a Free Society (Houston, Texas: Papinian Press, 2023), Part II.F:

Libertarians oppose all forms of crime (aggression). Thus we oppose not only private aggression: we also oppose institutionalized or public aggression. The opposition to institutionalized aggression is based on the view, espoused by Bastiat, that an act of aggression that is unjust for a private actor to perform remains illegitimate when performed by agencies, institutions, or collectives.^[51] Murder or theft by ten, or a hundred, or a million, people is not better than theft by a lone criminal. It is for this reason that libertarians view the state itself as inherently criminal. For the state does not just happen to engage in institutionalized aggression; it necessarily does so on a systematic basis as part of the very nature of the state. [continue reading…]

[From my Webnote series]

Quite often you hear people muse about a post-scarcity society, one of near superabundance, where money will no longer be useful since there will be no need to economize or calculate. This is reminiscent of the Star Trek universe which sometimes implies there is no longer any need for money. Of course this is preposterous. There is a reason Rothbard mocked what he called the “Space Cadets.” ¹ I mean hey, I like sci-fi too, but know the difference between fiction and reality, unlike too many libertarian activists, trekkers, and D&D fans.

True post-scarcity or superabundance is impossible, just as the economic concept of scarcity (conflictable resources) ² is not really the same as the more colloquial concept of “scarcity” (lack of abundance). ³ [continue reading…]

1. See Kinsella, Rothbard on Libertarian “Space Cadets”. [↩]
2. On Conflictability and Conflictable Resources; Voluntaryism and Voluntarism. [↩]
3. On Property Rights in Superabundant Bananas and Property Rights as Normative Support for Possession; Nobody Owns Bitcoin; KOL272-2 | Q&A with Hülsmann, Dürr, Kinsella, Hoppe (PFS 2019). [↩]