The names of the Property and Freedom Society (PFS) and the Association for Law, Property, and Society (ALPS) might sound alike but as Grok confirms, yeah no. I mean just look at the latest article in its journal, Andrea McArdle, “Addressing the Challenges of Housing Insecurity in Urban Native America: Centering Affordability and Indigenous Values in Off-Reservation Housing,” Journal of Law, Property, and Society 10 (April 2026): 1–33. Typical mainstream statist drek. The piece operates entirely inside the conventional progressive academic register of property scholarship: historical injustice + equity framing + affordable housing policy + culturally tailored public/nonprofit interventions.
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Property and Freedom Podcast, Episode 354.
On Sept. 17–18, 2005, Professors Hans-Hermann Hoppe and Guido Hülsmann presented a two-day 11-lecture series, “Weekend Seminar in Austrian Economics,” in Klampenborg (just north of Copenhagen, Denmark), under the auspices of the Copenhagen Institute and Liberator. Program (local, and at right). See also Copenhagen Institute hosts Hoppe and Hülsmann, Mises Economics Blog (Sept. 1, 2005).
The entire series runs for roughly 10–12 hours and are collected on a PFS Playlist.1 For further information see: Hoppe University: Hoppe and Hülsmann, Weekend Seminar in Austrian Economics, Copenhagen Institute (2005).
This episode: Lecture 11: Law and Economics (Hoppe). [continue reading…]
- Based on the incomplete V for Voluntary Youtube playlist. [↩]
Imagine a scenario for dealing with the Epstein scandal under a private property legal order. Such a system does not preclude the existence of the United States as a compound republic, although it does require a radical reinterpretation of the political order operating through the Constitution. First, the United States is a federation of political entities, each one an independent republic, cooperating for mutual protection and commerce according to the stipulations of a written contract. The general government can only act on the limited authorities delegated to it via the contract, while the member states retain sovereignty within their geographic territories, except for those things prohibited to them by the federal operating charter.
Kinsella on Liberty Podcast: Episode 496.
Matt Sands of the Nations of Sanity project and I discuss the possible interrelationship between his project and my The Universal Principles of Liberty. Recorded Aug. 14, 2026.
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Property and Freedom Podcast, Episode 353.
On Sept. 17–18, 2005, Professors Hans-Hermann Hoppe and Guido Hülsmann presented a two-day 11-lecture series, “Weekend Seminar in Austrian Economics,” in Klampenborg (just north of Copenhagen, Denmark), under the auspices of the Copenhagen Institute and Liberator. Program (local, and at right). See also Copenhagen Institute hosts Hoppe and Hülsmann, Mises Economics Blog (Sept. 1, 2005).
The entire series runs for roughly 10–12 hours and are collected on a PFS Playlist.1 For further information see: Hoppe University: Hoppe and Hülsmann, Weekend Seminar in Austrian Economics, Copenhagen Institute (2005).
This episode: Lecture 10: Welfare Economics (Hülsmann). [continue reading…]
- Based on the incomplete V for Voluntary Youtube playlist. [↩]
In 2009, the Mises Institute published Property, Freedom, and Society: Essays in Honor of Hans-Hermann Hoppe, a project Guido Hülsmann and and Stephan Kinsella spearheaded to honor Hans Hoppe on the occasion of his 60th birthday. Only a few of the pieces were published independently; we are posting them here in this Bookstream.
The first entry was republished at Property, Freedom, and Society Bookstream: Introduction, Hülsmann and Kinsella. Links to the remaining chapters may be found at the book’s landing page here, which will be updated as the book is streamed here. Here’s the next entry. [continue reading…]
An interview with Jeff Deist on the Scott Horton Show; and see Claudio Grass’s commentary.
David Friedman’s recent Made in Ancapia interview has this clip:
Me encanta
David Friedman sobre Javier Milei:
✒️| “Sería bueno para el libertarismo si resulta que tener un presidente libertario que empuja las ideas de la libertad hace a un país rico. (…) Le deseo suerte.” pic.twitter.com/h0CrzLmdlP
— Made in Ancapia (@MadeInAncapia) March 27, 2026
From Libertarian Alliance (UK):
The Pessimists Have Been Wrong for Two Hundred Years
Paul Craig Roberts has written another of his gloomy essays about artificial intelligence and the digital age. There is much in it that deserves agreement. Wikipedia is politically biased. Governments and large corporations increasingly try to control what people read and think. Digital information can disappear more easily than printed books locked away in forgotten libraries. These are genuine concerns, and intelligent people ought to discuss them seriously.
What disappoints me is what Roberts builds on these observations. Instead of criticising the abuse of technology, he condemns the technology itself. This is a familiar mistake. Every great technological advance has produced a class of intelligent men who noticed its defects and confidently predicted disaster. Their predictions have almost always been wrong. [continue reading…]
Volodymyr Sindieiev/Anadolu via Getty Images
Diversity German Style: Berlin Pool Advertised ‘Black Only’ Swimming Hours: “A taxpayer-funded swimming pool in Berlin, originally pitched as a multicultural, open-to-all space, almost immediately announced segregated, black-only swim sessions.”
H/t Tom DiLorenzo
‘Arabs… Chechens’: German Swimming Baths Terrorised by ‘Migration Background’ Menhttps://t.co/ZzdHVJewVY
— Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) July 15, 2023
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Property and Freedom Podcast, Episode 352.
On Sept. 17–18, 2005, Professors Hans-Hermann Hoppe and Guido Hülsmann presented a two-day 11-lecture series, “Weekend Seminar in Austrian Economics,” in Klampenborg (just north of Copenhagen, Denmark), under the auspices of the Copenhagen Institute and Liberator. Program (local, and at right). See also Copenhagen Institute hosts Hoppe and Hülsmann, Mises Economics Blog (Sept. 1, 2005).
The entire series runs for roughly 10–12 hours and are collected on a PFS Playlist.1 For further information see: Hoppe University: Hoppe and Hülsmann, Weekend Seminar in Austrian Economics, Copenhagen Institute (2005).
This episode: Lecture 9: Theory and History (Hoppe).
All Lectures:
- Lecture 1: Mises and the Austrian School (Hülsmann)
- Lecture 2: Value, Utility and Price (Hülsmann)
- Lecture 3: Division Of Labor and Money (Hoppe)
- Lecture 4: The Theory of Banking (Hoppe)
- Lecture 5: Capital and Interest (Hoppe)
- Lecture 6: Praxeology: The Austrian Method (Hoppe)
- Lecture 6: Praxeology: The Austrian Method—Extended Version (Hoppe) Longer version RU version (12 minutes longer)
- Lecture 7: Business Cycle Theory (Hülsmann)
- Lecture 8: The Economics of Deflation (Hülsmann)
- Lecture 9: Theory and History (Hoppe)
- Lecture 10: Welfare Economics (Hülsmann)
- Lecture 11: Law and Economics (Hoppe)
- Based on the incomplete V for Voluntary Youtube playlist. [↩]
A Japanese translation of Rothbard at 100: A Tribute and Assessment, Stephan Kinsella and Hans-Hermann Hoppe, eds. (Papinian Press and The Saif House, 2026), entitled ロスバード生誕100周年: 追悼と回顧, trans. Tatsuya Iwakura (岩倉竜也), is now available, thanks to the PFS’s open publishing policy. Unlike certain other institutions we do not restrict translations or derivative works by using a CC-BY-NC-ND license, but instead use CC-BY, because we want pro-Austrian and pro-liberty writings to reach as many people as possible.1 Various Amazon links sent to us by the translator are listed below. See other translations at Translations of PFS Publications. [continue reading…]
- See Kinsella, “My Years with the Mises Institute,” Property and Freedom Journal (May 2, 2026), the sections Pointless Name Changes, Website Changes, and Journal Confusion and Mises.org; Copyright and Open Publishing/Information. [↩]
Mauro Tosco, “Democracy: a threat to language diversity?,” in Contested Languages: The hidden multilingualism of Europe, Marco Tamburelli and Mauro Tosco, eds. (John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2021; alt).
Abstract: This chapter argues that democracy has both theoretical and practical implications that negatively affect the maintenance of language (and cultural) diversity. Attention is paid to the levelling effects of welfare policies, which tend to depress the speakers’ interest in language preservation and transmission and which typically negatively affect the quality of revitalisation programmes. The presentation discusses the practical and theoretical problems posed by possible ways out such as a voluntary, self-imposed “boundary maintenance” policy (Fishman 1991) and “the creation of linguistic fortresses or ghettoes” (Laponce 1984) in order to protect a minority language. Further, it argues that the democratic state – in itself just the last instalment of the nation-state – may have a special problem with multilingualism, and that language diversity possibly fared better in past forms of government.
Excerpted from an update to my post Libertarian and Lockean Creationism: Creation As a Source of Wealth, not Property Rights; Hayek’s “Fund of Experience”; the Distinction Between Scarce Means and Knowledge as Guides to Action:
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This article develops a typology of knowledge in economics, drawing on the works of Carl Menger and F. A. Hayek, to clarify how different types of knowledge affect production, coordination, and entrepreneurial profit. It organizes economically relevant knowledge along two axes—the physical world versus the catallactic world, on the one hand, and general versus applied, on the other—and adds a temporal dimension to distinguish knowledge problems from uncertainty. The framework reveals that while physical-world knowledge sets the boundaries of what can be produced, catallactic-world knowledge guides what should be produced and how. The article applies this typology to Austrian theories of the market process, showing that uncertainty arises when value knowledge is unavailable at the time of action and that entrepreneurial profit stems from bearing this uncertainty rather than from superior knowledge. This conceptual separation advances the understanding of economic causality and the distinct functions of knowledge in market processes.
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Property and Freedom Podcast, Episode 351.
On Sept. 17–18, 2005, Professors Hans-Hermann Hoppe and Guido Hülsmann presented a two-day 11-lecture series, “Weekend Seminar in Austrian Economics,” in Klampenborg (just north of Copenhagen, Denmark), under the auspices of the Copenhagen Institute and Liberator. Program (local, and at right). See also Copenhagen Institute hosts Hoppe and Hülsmann, Mises Economics Blog (Sept. 1, 2005).
The entire series runs for roughly 10–12 hours and are collected on a PFS Playlist.1 For further information see: Hoppe University: Hoppe and Hülsmann, Weekend Seminar in Austrian Economics, Copenhagen Institute (2005).
This episode: Lecture 8: The Economics of Deflation (Hülsmann).
All Lectures:
- Lecture 1: Mises and the Austrian School (Hülsmann)
- Lecture 2: Value, Utility and Price (Hülsmann)
- Lecture 3: Division Of Labor and Money (Hoppe)
- Lecture 4: The Theory of Banking (Hoppe)
- Lecture 5: Capital and Interest (Hoppe)
- Lecture 6: Praxeology: The Austrian Method (Hoppe)
- Lecture 6: Praxeology: The Austrian Method—Extended Version (Hoppe) Longer version RU version (12 minutes longer)
- Lecture 7: Business Cycle Theory (Hülsmann)
- Lecture 8: The Economics of Deflation (Hülsmann)
- Lecture 9: Theory and History (Hoppe)
- Lecture 10: Welfare Economics (Hülsmann)
- Lecture 11: Law and Economics (Hoppe)
- Based on the incomplete V for Voluntary Youtube playlist. [↩]
In 2009, the Mises Institute published Property, Freedom, and Society: Essays in Honor of Hans-Hermann Hoppe, a project Guido Hülsmann and and Stephan Kinsella spearheaded to honor Hans Hoppe on the occasion of his 60th birthday. Only a few of the pieces were published independently; we are posting them here in this Bookstream.
The first entry was republished at Property, Freedom, and Society Bookstream: Introduction, Hülsmann and Kinsella. Links to the remaining chapters may be found at the book’s landing page here, which will be updated as the book is streamed here. Here’s the next entry: Jeffrey A. Tucker, “Marxism Without Polylogism,” also previously published at Mises Daily (8/31/2009). [continue reading…]
Kinsella on Liberty Podcast: Episode 495.
Lecture, “Rothbard’s Revolutionary Contract Theory,” “Liberté Tribute to Rothbard on his Centenary: Rothbard 100: A Legacy for Future Generations,” Sociedad de la Libertad Latam (SdL) (a Latin American think tank based in Lima, Peru) and the 5th American Youth for Liberty Forum (Aug. 12, 2026, International Youth Day; via Youtube). Attendees included young people with a background in libertarian thought from Bolivia, Argentina, Peru, Chile, Uruguay, Paraguay, Colombia, Ecuador, Guatemala, and Mexico.
The speech was my English language talk interspersed with a Spanish translation by the moderator, Rosa María Apaza, Presidente SDL LATAM.
The PFS Merch Store is now live—for PFS teeshirts, hats, and so on. Set up with the helpful assistance of The Swan Brothers (contact: Christian Valuski).
For suggestions as to additional designs or products, please contact Stephan Kinsella.
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Property and Freedom Podcast, Episode 350.
On Sept. 17–18, 2005, Professors Hans-Hermann Hoppe and Guido Hülsmann presented a two-day 11-lecture series, “Weekend Seminar in Austrian Economics,” in Klampenborg (just north of Copenhagen, Denmark), under the auspices of the Copenhagen Institute and Liberator. Program (local, and at right). See also Copenhagen Institute hosts Hoppe and Hülsmann, Mises Economics Blog (Sept. 1, 2005).
The entire series runs for roughly 10–12 hours and are collected on a PFS Playlist.1 For further information see: Hoppe University: Hoppe and Hülsmann, Weekend Seminar in Austrian Economics, Copenhagen Institute (2005).
This episode: Lecture 7: Business Cycle Theory (Hülsmann).
All Lectures:
- Lecture 1: Mises and the Austrian School (Hülsmann)
- Lecture 2: Value, Utility and Price (Hülsmann)
- Lecture 3: Division Of Labor and Money (Hoppe)
- Lecture 4: The Theory of Banking (Hoppe)
- Lecture 5: Capital and Interest (Hoppe)
- Lecture 6: Praxeology: The Austrian Method (Hoppe)
- Lecture 6: Praxeology: The Austrian Method—Extended Version (Hoppe) Longer version RU version (12 minutes longer)
- Lecture 7: Business Cycle Theory (Hülsmann)
- Lecture 8: The Economics of Deflation (Hülsmann)
- Lecture 9: Theory and History (Hoppe)
- Lecture 10: Welfare Economics (Hülsmann)
- Lecture 11: Law and Economics (Hoppe)
- Based on the incomplete V for Voluntary Youtube playlist. [↩]
David Veksler, who recently revived the old Mises Wiki as The Austrian Economics Wiki, has used his growing mastery of AI and coding and passion for liberty to turn “a stale 2009–2014 torrent of public domain and Creative Commons libertarian works into a working library.” This is quite amazing. His Facebook post (Aug. 9. 2026) explains what is here:
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The Liberty Archive (https://freecapitalists.org/), by the numbers
I spent the last week turning a stale 2009–2014 torrent of public domain and Creative Commons libertarian works into a working library. Here’s what’s in it as of August 9, 2026:
219 new EPUBs, converted from PDF-only scans that never had an ebook edition. Every one passes a word-count QA check against the source PDF before it ships.- [continue reading…]
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Property and Freedom Podcast, Episode 349.
On Sept. 17–18, 2005, Professors Hans-Hermann Hoppe and Guido Hülsmann presented a two-day 11-lecture series, “Weekend Seminar in Austrian Economics,” in Klampenborg (just north of Copenhagen, Denmark), under the auspices of the Copenhagen Institute and Liberator. Program (local, and at right). See also Copenhagen Institute hosts Hoppe and Hülsmann, Mises Economics Blog (Sept. 1, 2005).
The entire series runs for roughly 10–12 hours and are collected on a PFS Playlist.1 For further information see: Hoppe University: Hoppe and Hülsmann, Weekend Seminar in Austrian Economics, Copenhagen Institute (2005).
This episode: Lecture 6: Praxeology: The Austrian Method—Extended Version. [continue reading…]
- Based on the incomplete V for Voluntary Youtube playlist. [↩]
In 2009, the Mises Institute published Property, Freedom, and Society: Essays in Honor of Hans-Hermann Hoppe, a project Guido Hülsmann and and Stephan Kinsella spearheaded to honor Hans Hoppe on the occasion of his 60th birthday. Only a few of the pieces were published independently; we are posting them here in this Bookstream.
The first entry was republished at Property, Freedom, and Society Bookstream: Introduction, Hülsmann and Kinsella. Links to the remaining chapters may be found at the book’s landing page here, which will be updated as the book is streamed here. Here’s the next entry. [continue reading…]
Arctotherium, “The Closure of the Internet: The Most Important Social Phenomenon of the Late 2010s,” Not With a Bang (Aug. 9, 2026).
Grok Summary:
Arctotherium’s long essay argues that the “closure of the Internet” in the late 2010s was the most important social phenomenon of the period. Until roughly 2015, major platforms operated with minimal rules beyond real-world crimes (illegal goods, child exploitation, direct threats, etc.). This open environment was backed by institutions such as the UN, EU, U.S. State Department, and mainstream outlets that treated online speech as continuous with offline liberty and expected it to liberalize closed societies.
That changed rapidly in two phases:
- 2015–2019, linked to the migrant crisis, Brexit, Trump’s election, and the online right;
- 2020–2022, intensified by COVID policies and the 2020 U.S. election.
Platforms built large human and machine-learning moderation systems, invented or radically expanded concepts such as “disinformation,” “misinformation,” “malinformation,” “hate speech,” “toxicity,” and “online safety,” and applied them opaquely and selectively. Network analysis was used to map and suppress clusters of accounts; demonetization, shadowbans, algorithmic downranking, and outright bans became routine. The essay details the process platform by platform (YouTube’s post-2017 “adpocalypse” and policy expansions, Reddit’s successive subreddit purges and quarantine regime, Twitter’s evolving rules and later Twitter Files revelations of government/FBI coordination, Amazon’s book removals, etc.). Offline enforcement (firings, street violence, institutional purges) closed the remaining avenues. The result, in the author’s view, was a shift from a relatively open frontier to “closely monitored playpens,” with tens of millions of accounts affected and heterodox (especially anti-woke or right-leaning) discourse largely driven offline or into smaller, lower-capacity spaces. The piece frames this as a classic slippery-slope case with no stable limiting principle once the conceptual and technical apparatus existed.
I would argue that it was the May 2025 Revisionist History of War conference that I organized. Murray Rothbard believed that the two most important topics for libertarians and libertarianism are revisionist history and war. War is the health of the state. All states lie their countries in to wars, and then they and their “intellectual” shills lie about what happened during the wars, what caused them, and the consequences thereof. It’s hard to think of a more important Rothbardian research agenda than the revisionist history of war informed by Austrian economics and Rothbardian libertarian philosophy.
The speeches from the conference are online here. The most hard hitting ones were Ron Unz on the false history of World War II; Ilana Mercer on fake history of the Israeli state; a first-hand account of the 1967 Israeli attack on the USS Liberty in which 34 American sailors were killed by Phil Tourney, president of the USS Liberty Veterans Association; Pentagon Lies by retired Air Force Colonel Karen Kwiatkowski; Scott Horton on how D.C. restarted the Cold War with Russia; truths about post-Civil War “reconstruction” by Wanjiru Njoya; the myth of the “righteous cause” from Lincoln to the war in Iraq by Brion McClanahan; and of course myself on the “false virtue” that has been used to “justify” American military imperialism for the past 150 years.
Hans was unable to attend the conference but he did write a paper for it that was to be included in the book containing all of the other speeches. It is entitled “On War, Democratic Peace, and Reeducation: The ‘German Experience’ in Reactionary Perspective.”
Longtime Mises Institute copy editor Judy Thomessen, who is now the top executive (executive director) of the Institute, has written to Hans that they do plan on publishing the book eventually. If so, it would be the most Rothbardian book published by the Mises Institute in thirty years (apart from Rothbard’s own posthumous publications).
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