One of Canaletto’s gorgeous paintings of Venice’s Piazza San Marco is used as the header and theme for Libertarian Papers. Our friend and podcast producer Gil Guillory was in Italy for a work assignment recently (no offense, left-libertarian opponents of “wage slavery”) and visited said Piazza–sporting a new beard. Lucky guy!
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Stephan Kinsella is a libertarian writer and retired patent attorney in Houston, Texas. He has published widely on various areas of libertarian legal theory and on legal topics such as intellectual property law and international law. His publications include Legal Foundations of a Free Society (Papinian Press, 2023), Against Intellectual Property (Mises Institute, 2008), International Investment, Political Risk, and Dispute Resolution: A Practitioner’s Guide (Oxford, 2020), and The Universal Principles of Liberty (2025).
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