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…]
The recent book Walter Block – Anarcho-Capitalist Austro-Libertarian, Elvira Nica & Gheorghe H. Popescu, eds. (Addleton Academic Publishers, 2025) contained my essay “A Tour Through Walter Block’s Oeuvre.” My friends Doug French and Jacob Huebert told me they had been asked to contribute but for some reason their essay was not included. I asked Walter about this; he said maybe they could be in … volume 2. In any cases, I believe Doug’s piece was eventually published as “Entrepreneurship Can’t Be Taught in a College Classroom,” Mises Wire (June 21, 2025), and then included in Doug’s book When Movements Become Rackets and Other Swindles: The PFS Trilogy.
Huebert’s was the piece below, which he gave me permission to post. [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…]
- See Kinsella, Rothbard on Libertarian “Space Cadets”. [↩]
- On Conflictability and Conflictable Resources; Voluntaryism and Voluntarism. [↩]
- 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). [↩]
As noted in KOL480 | The Liberland Constitution and Libertarian Principles (Liberland Prague, 2025), I recently visited Prague for the Liberland Constitution Christmas Party Prague 2025, which also featured my friends Alessandro Fusillo and Hans Hoppe, who also spoke. My friend Greg Morin joined me, and we met up there with friends such as Hans’s wife Gulçin Imre Hoppe and Domitia Fusiillo, Jozeph and Helena Martiniak, and others. I also met up with Paula Hessenberger, a longtime friend of my brother Michael, who passed away last year but lived for years in Prague and helped to start an annual charity ball in Prague which benefits a local children’s hospital, which now features a plaque in his honor. We had a marvelous time. Pictures of the event may be be found at Hoppe, Fusillo, Kinsella Speak at Liberland Constitution Celebration, Vit’s post at Facebook, my facebook post, and online at google drive (full set) and here (Kinsella set); a selection below. [continue reading…]
Kinsella on Liberty Podcast: Episode 480.
This is my talk at the Liberland Constitution Christmas Party Prague 2025, Dec. 19, 2025, based on the article below, which will be included in the book based on the proceedings, First Constitutional Convention of the Free Republic of Liberland, Vít Jedlička, ed. (Dec. 19, 2025; forthcoming). The transcript is also below. Pictures of the event may be be found at Prague 2025: Liberland Constitution Celebration: Photos; also Hoppe, Fusillo, Kinsella Speak at Liberland Constitution Celebration, and Vit’s post at Facebook and my facebook post. This audio is from my iphone; video and better audio, and that of other talks, will be released in due course. [continue reading…]
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Related:
- Examples of Libertarian Law vs. Louisiana vs. French vs. Common Law: Consideration and Formalities
- Roman Law and Hypothetical Cases
- The Superiority of the Roman Law: Scarcity, Property, Locke and Libertarianism
- The Universal Principles of Liberty, §11
- Legislation and the Discovery of Law in a Free Society, discussing lesion and forced heirship
- The Systemic Function of General Principles (International Law)
Update: from: Richman on Inalienable Rights:
“Every argument is based on what Frank Van Dun calls the obligation to be reasonable. If one did not at least implicitly believe that people ought to respect argumentation and accept valid conclusions, one would never make an argument.” See, on this, On the Obligation to Negotiate, Compromise, and Arbitrate; The Universal Principles of Liberty, ¶11; Libertarian Answer Man: Fine Print, The Doctrine of Unconscionability, Good Faith, Forced Heirship, Lesion Beyond Moiety; more forthoming in Kinsella’s Annotations and Commentary on The Universal Principles of Liberty (forthcoming).
Not a normal answer man segment since this was not an unsolicited query, but rather from a private discussion with some libertarian friends.
We were discussing Hedge fund ordered to pay bonus to trader who made 97% of its revenues. In this case a London trading firm indicated the trader would likely get a discretionary bonus if he hit a $10M target; he ended up far exceeding this and making 97% of its revenues that year.
Still, the boss told him he would not give him a bonus because they were not happy with negative publicity from a dispute with the SEC from previous employment activities. He sued and one. I said ULTIAAO, “unlibertarian things I almost approve of.” One friend disagreed, saying the contract said the bonus was discretionary so that settles it. [continue reading…]
[From my Webnote series]
Related:
From Stephan Kinsella, “What Libertarianism Is,” Legal Foundations of a Free Society (Houston, Texas: Papinian Press, 2023):
Property as a Right between People
Moreover, as noted in “A Libertarian Theory of Contract” (ch. 9), n.1, property rights can be conceived of not as a right between a human actor and an owned object, but rather as a right as between human actors, but with respect to particular (owned) resources. [continue reading…]
Kinsella on Liberty Podcast: Episode 479.
Related:
- Libertarian Answer Man: Restrictive Covenants and Homeowners Associations (HOAs)
- Libertarian Answer Man: Restrictive Covenants, Reserved Rights, and Copyright
- KOL479 | Co-Ownership Revisited: Property Rights, Exclusion, Contracts, and Edge Cases, with Nick Sinard
- KOL354 | CDA §230, Being “Part of the State,” Co-ownership, Causation, Defamation, with Nick Sinard
- Libertarian Answer Man: Corporations, Trusts, HOAs, and Private Law Codes in a Private Law Society
Libertarian Nicholas Sinard asked me to field some questions about the referenced issues, so we did so. (Recorded Dec. 10, 2025.)
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Sheldon Richman opened my naive eyes to many ugly truths about the US Constitution. 1 His great book, America’s Counter-Revolution: The Constitution Revisited (Griffin & Lash: Ann Arbor, Michigan, 2016; pdf) was published a few years ago. It was actually published under a CC-SA license but still unavailable online. As all books should be free and online, 2 I nudged Sheldon to send me the file, and tidied it up a bit, so here you have it.
Jeffrey Tucker’s Foreword and Sheldon’s Introduction are below. Enjoy! [continue reading…]
- KOL457 | Sheldon Richman & IP; Andre from Brazil re Contract Theory, Student Loan Interest Payments, Bankruptcy, Vagueness, Usury; On Constitutional Sentimentalism; Napolitano on Health-Care Reform and the Constitution: Is the Commerce Clause Really Limited? [↩]
- The Academic Publishing Paywall Copyright Subsidized Racket; On Leading by Example and the Power of Attraction (Open Source Publishing, Creative Commons, Public Domain Publishing); Tucker, The Magic of Open-Source Publishing; Academic publishers have become the enemies of science: yet more real piracy; Tucker, The Magic of Open-Source Publishing; Tucker, “Authors: Beware of Copyright,” in Bourbon for Breakfast (Mises Institute, 2010); Authors: Don’t Make the Buddy Holly Mistake. [↩]
Kinsella on Liberty Podcast: Episode 478.
Related:
- The Universal Principles of Liberty
- Announcing the Universal Principles of Liberty
- Fusillo on the Universal Principles of Liberty and Liberland
- KOL473 | The Universal Principles of Liberty, with Mark Maresca of The White Pillbox
- Selling Does Not Imply Ownership, and Vice-Versa: A Dissection, in Legal Foundations of a Free Society
- A Libertarian Theory of Contract: Title Transfer, Binding Promises, and Inalienability and Inalienability and Punishment: A Reply to George Smith, in Legal Foundations of a Free Society
- Disentangling Legal and Economic Concepts
- Dualism, Monism, Scientism, Causality, Teleology: Hoppe, Mises, Rothbard
- Libertarian Answer Man: Mind-Body Dualism, Self-Ownership, and Property Rights
- God as Slaveowner; Conversations with Murphy
- Mises on God
- KOL293 | Faith and Free Will, with Steve Mendelsohn
This is my appearance on Adam Haman’s podcast and Youtube channel, Haman Nature (Haman Nature substack), Kinsella’s Legal Treatise On Universal Principles Of Liberty | Hn 185 (recorded Nov. 9, 2025; released Dec. 9, 2025).
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