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I used to list various links; archived here. I the moved it to Wikispaces, for the Libertarian Guide Wiki (archived; the service is now defunct). I reprint the archive.org links below (many out of date):

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Libertarian Legal Theory with Stephan KinsellaI presented a 6-lecture Mises Academy course in 2011, “Libertarian Legal Theory: Property, Conflict, and Society,” and provided the Mid-Term Test and Final Exam used during the course here: “Libertarian Legal Theory: Property, Conflict, and Society”: Mid-Term Test and Final Exam (Mises Academy 2011). The questions, with answers in bold, are highlighted below.

WARNING: Do not read further if you do not want to see the Answer Key. If you want to see the tests without the Answer Key, see “Libertarian Legal Theory: Property, Conflict, and Society”: Mid-Term Test and Final Exam (Mises Academy 2011). [continue reading…]

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Libertarian Legal Theory with Stephan KinsellaI presented a 6-lecture Mises Academy course in 2011, “Libertarian Legal Theory: Property, Conflict, and Society.” I thought some might be interested in seeing the Mid-Term Test and Final Exam used during the course. These are below. A version with the correct answers indicated may be found here (warning: do not click this link if you do not want the answers spoiled).

LIBERTARIAN LEGAL THEORY
Mid-term Test, February 2011
Professor: Stephan Kinsella
Mises Academy – Winter 2011

(1) His/her image is an inspiration for this course’s ad:
(A) Ulpian
(B) Papinian
(C) Sir Edward Coke
(D) Murray Rothbard
(E) Eric Dondero

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Lawrence Lepard’s 2008 Ron Paul Ads

Sent to me by Lawrence Lepard. He told me these ads cost about $80k each.  PDFs: USA Today ad; NYTimes ad.

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Taxing Astronauts and the President (2006)

From Mises Blog, July 12, 2006

Taxing Astronauts and the President

07/12/2006

Maybe some tax expert can set me straight on the following assumptions, but from what I can tell, federal income tax law technically should make it virtually impossible to have a space program and to have anyone but a billionaire as president. Bear with me. [continue reading…]

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Just came across this article I wrote 10 years ago for the Christian Science Monitor, that I had totally forgotten about. (Note: I did not choose the title. I would not use the term “thief” to refer to anyone who uses ideas of others. See Stop calling patent and copyright “property”; stop calling copying “theft” and “piracy” (Jan. 9, 2012).)

Libertarian guru Andrew Galambos’ intellectual property beliefs were so extreme that he paid royalties to the descendants of Thomas Paine every time he used the world “liberty.” But did he steal his radical ideas from someone else?

A bust of Thomas Paine atop his monument in New Rochelle, N.Y. libertarian guru Andrew J. Galambos’ intellectual property views were so extreme that he paid royalties to the descendants of Paine every time he used the word “liberty,” which he claimed was coined by Paine.

Joe Sohm Visions of America/Newscom/File

Christian Science Monitor

October 28, 2011

By Stephan Kinsella

Guest blogger

I’ve written before about the quirky scientistic California libertarian guru Andrew J. Galambos, and his extreme, crazy IP ideas. 1 Galambos believed that man has property rights in his own life (primordial property) and in all “non-procreative derivatives of his life”—the “first derivatives” of a man’s life are his thoughts and ideas—these are “primary property.” Since action is based on primary property (ideas), actions are owned as well; this is referred to as “liberty.” Secondary derivatives, such as land, televisions, and other tangible goods, are produced by ideas and action. 2 [continue reading…]

  1. See Galambos and Other Nuts; also Galambosian IP Recursion; “Ideas Are Free: The Case Against Intellectual Property.” []
  2. See also On Andrew Galambos and His Primary Property Ideas, by Alvin Lowi, Jr. []
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On Jonah Goldberg’s Youthful Phase

Stephan Kinsella, “On Jonah Goldberg’s Youthful Phase,” LewRockwell.com (June 27, 2001).

This piece now includes some broken links. In particular, the piece I was replying to is now here: Jonah Goldberg, “The Libertarian Lobe,” National Review (June 22, 2001).

See also my post I hereby expel Bill Maher from the libertarian movement.

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I started this draft article years ago but never finished it. Including it here for google to index for me.

See also Constitutional Structures in Defense of Freedom (ASC 1998) and Structural Safeguards to Limit Legislation.

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Down with the Bill of Rights: Heller and the Central States Cheerleaders

Stephan Kinsella

Draft

June 2008

 

[T]he rule of law is a myth and like all myths, it is designed to serve an emotive, rather than cognitive, function. The purpose of a myth is not to persuade one’s reason, but to enlist one’s emotions in support of an idea. And this is precisely the case for the myth of the rule of law; its purpose is to enlist the emotions of the public in support of society’s political power structure.

John Hasnas

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Constitutional Structures in Defense of Freedom (ASC 1998)

Starting in 1995, just after Rothbard’s death and after meeting Hans-Hermann Hoppe, 1 I attended several of the interdisciplinary Austrian Scholars Conferences, held by the Mises Institute in the Spring, in Auburn, AL—at the Auburn University Hotel and Conference Center, before the Mises Institute had its own building completed. I presented various papers at the ASCs, many of which were published in the Journal of Libertarian Studies or elsewhere, many of which will be incorporated into my forthcoming Law in a Libertarian World. The ASC has since been superseded by the AERC, or Austrian Economics Research Conference, held in the Spring at Auburn, and the Libertarian Scholars Conference, held a few times in recent years in New York.

For the Austrian Scholars Conference held April 1998, I chaired the Law and Economics panel, and presented a paper, “Constitutional Structures in Defense of Freedom: Are They Possible?” I did not record my talk nor did I ever officially publish the paper, which was somewhat informal and more sketched out as notes for the talk; it is reproduced below.

See also:

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  1. See various biographical articles here discussing this. []
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Faculty Spotlight Interview: Stephan Kinsella,” Mises Economics Blog (Feb. 11, 2011) [archived comments below]

[Update: see various biographical pieces on my publications page, including Alan D. Bergman, Adopting Liberty: The Stephan Kinsella Story (2025).]

  • see related biographical pieces here

Faculty Spotlight Interview: Stephan Kinsella

02/12/2011

Stephan Kinsella is a registered patent attorney and General Counsel for Applied Optoelectronics, Inc; also Senior Fellow of the Ludwig von Mises Institute, Editor of Libertarian Papers, and Director of the Center for the Study of Innovative Freedom (C4SIF). He has published numerous articles and books on IP law, international law, and the application of libertarian principles to legal topics, including International Investment, Political Risk, and Dispute Resolution: A Practitioner’s Guide (Oxford University Press, 2005); Louisiana Civil Law Dictionary (Quid Pro, forthcoming 2011); and Against Intellectual Property (Mises Institute, 2008). [continue reading…]

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Libertarians & the Religious Right: an Interview with Stephan Kinsella (wayback version), by Alberto Mingardi, Laissez Faire City Times, v. 2.39 (1999)

Libertarians & the Religious Right: an Interview with Stephan Kinsella

by Alberto Mingardi

N. Stephan Kinsella is co-author of the book Protecting Foreign Investment Under International Law: Legal Aspects of Political Risk (Oceana 1997), as well as co-editor of the legal treatise Digest of Commercial Laws of the World (Oceana 1998). He is actively involved with the Ludwig von Mises Institute, one of the best think tanks around.

“As far as libertarianism goes,” says Kinsella about himself, “I am most interested in rights theory, about which I have written in law reviews and other journals like Reason Papers and the Journal of Libertarian Studies, and law and economics. I have attempted to develop a framework justifying and grounding rights, which is based on the legal concept of ‘estoppel’.”
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Michael Malice has an excellent new compendium out, The Anarchist Handbook, excerpting key writings of a number of important anarchist thinkers. They are, in order:

  • Peter Kropotkin
  • William Godwin
  • Leo Tolstoy
  • Max Stirner
  • Alexander Berkman
  • Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
  • Voltairine de Cleyre
  • Herbert Spencer
  • Emma Goldman
  • Josiah Warren
  • Charles Robert Plunkett
  • Mikhail Bakunin
  • Linda and Morris Tannehill
  • Lysander Spooner
  • David Friedman
  • Johann Most
  • Murray Rothbard
  • Louis Lingg
  • John Hasnas
  • Benjamin R. Tucker
  • Michael Malice

His selections are of course not comprehensive, but while going over his list a few other important anarchist thinkers occurred to me who are not included. I offer this eclectic list as a supplement for those looking for further readings along the lines of Malice’s collection. My list is also not comprehensive; it is mostly some of my personal favorites or influences. Readers are invited to submit other possible important works I have missed.

Update: Keith Knight’s recent The Voluntaryist Handbook (2022) actually includes some of the works that I suggest below, plus many others.
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