Rothbard Takes Portugal: 100 Years with Rothbard: A Personal Account

by Stephan Kinsella on July 16, 2026

Rothbard Porto – Kinsella speaking and crowd

100 Years with Rothbard was held two weekends ago in beautiful Porto, Portugal, on Saturday, June 27, 2026, featuring and attended by a number of PFS members, including Professor Hoppe and Gülçin Imre Hoppe, Stephan Kinsella, Saifedean Ammous, Thomas Jacob, Greg and Joy Morin, and Alessandro and Domitia Fusillo. From the PFS side, Hoppe, Kinsella, and Ammous spoke at the conference, along with many other wonderful speakers (program). It was a wonderful event, attended by hundreds from Portugal and many other countries. Below is my report of the event, along with some photos of the event.

100 Years with Rothbard (Porto, Portugal, June 27, 2026)
Other 100 Years with Rothbard posts
Rothbard Engraving from “100 Years with Rothbard,” Portugal (July 2, 2026)
BEEGARC, Rothbard 100, in Porto: A Misunderstood Genius in a Room of People Who Understood (June 28, 2026)
Portuguese Translation of Rothbard at 100: A Tribute and Assessment Published (June 29, 2026)
Kinsella, KOL493 | Rothbard’s Greatest Hits: A Personal Mix Tape (Porto, Portugal) (June 29, 2026)
Fernando Chiocca: “Rothbardianism at Rothbard’s Centenary”—Rothbard at 100, Portugal (July 1, 2026)
Adriano Paranaiba: “Would a Libertarian Movement Have Existed Without Murray Rothbard?” Rothbard at 100, Porto, Portugal (July 1, 2026)

I’ve been attending libertarian conference since 1994, all over the US and the world, and in recent decades speaking at many of them. ¹ I’ve also done my share of write-ups of these events. ² As PFS members know, the annual PFS meetings in Bodrum, Turkey, are like no other and are highlights of the year. And I expect our upcoming meeting this coming September to be a very special meeting, indeed, being our 20th Anniversary meeting and also the centenary year of Rothbard’s birth. But the 100 Years with Rothbard event in Porto was almost indescribably fantastic, though I will attempt to describe it anyway. It was a huge success, incredibly meaningful, fun, and well attended. It was one of the best events I’ve ever been to. I and others had such a great time. As Hannibal Smith of the A-Team says, “I love it when a plan comes together!”

The event was organized by Portuguese libertarian Manuel Ogando, with the help of a number of volunteers, and was sponsored by several Portuguese libertarian groups: Mises Portugal, Catalaxia, Don’t Trust Verify (bitcoin podcast), ZugaTV (libertarian podcast), and Golpe de Estado Podcast (ancap podcasters). Saif, Hans, and I all spoke as featured speakers, and Hans also gave interview to a local Portuguese businessman/podcaster as well as a Brazilian podcaster (more on this later).

As PFS members and readers know, Murray Rothbard, the key intellectual force behind the modern libertarian movement, ³ died in 1995 and would have turned 100 years old on March 2 of this year. Hans Hoppe was his close friend and associated for the last 10 years of his life, and for this reason he and I assembled and produced a Gedenkschrift in his honor and on the occasion of his centenary, Rothbard at 100: A Tribute and Assessment, co-published by my Papinian Press and Saifedean Ammous’s The Saif House. We worked hard to have it ready for digital publication on his birthday, March 20, 2026. Hans plans to have a special panel discussion of Rothbard at the PFS meeting later this year, and we have been celebrating and featuring his work on the PFS website.

Earlier this year Manuel, whom I had met at PFS last September in Bodrum, the first time he attended, mentioned to me that he was translating my book Legal Foundations of a Free Society into European Portuguese ⁴ and was planning on having a Rothbard-centered event in Portugal sometime in June where the translation of my book would be presented. After some discussion, Hans, Saifedean and I all agreed to come and speak. Meanwhile, Saifedean agreed to publish the print version of Rothbard at 100: A Tribute and Assessment and we worked together to have the deluxe cloth-bound hardcover finished and ready for presentation at the Porto event. And Fernando Chiocca worked to have 100 Anos de Rothbard: Uma Homenagem e Apreciação, a Brazilian Portuguese translation of Rothbard at 100: A Tribute and Assessment published in time for the Porto event as well. ⁵ Thus the Porto event saw three books presented: our Rothbard Gedenkschrift, its Brazilian Portuguese translation, and the European Portuguese translation of my LFFS. Hans and I and others did a lot of book signing after our talks on Saturday.