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):
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:
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…]
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:
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:
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.Podcast: Play in new window | Download (77.0MB)
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…]
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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Property and Freedom Podcast, Episode 348.
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 5: Capital and Interest (Hoppe). [continue reading…]
Redmond David Terrence Weissenberger (July 4, 1975–March 12, 2025) (obituary) passed away last year. From Doug French:
Redmond Weissenberger was the founder of and energy behind Mises Canada, founded March 8, 2011 to spread the teachings of the Austrian School of Economics to Canada. While at the Mises Institute, I began the legal process to start a Mises Canada. I turned over what legal work had been done to Redmond given the lack of interest in the project at the Institute. He quickly carried Mises Canada across the finish line.
At the time, Mises Canada was one of the many Mises Institutes operating in over 20 countries. Its Board included Redmond, Chris Horlacher (Vice-Chairman and Treasurer), Doug French, and Walter Block. Eric Sprott (Sprott Asset Management and Sprott School of Business) was an important donor and supporter.
The mises.ca website has been static for years, but when active its articles were often reprinted on ZeroHedge.com. Mises Canada hosted Rothbard University in 2018 as well as the International Conference of Prices & Markets. David Howden served as editor of Mises Canada’s Prices & Markets, a peer-reviewed academic journal. Weissenberger also hatched the idea to offer Austrian-focused continuing education courses for real estate professionals which were offered at Freedomfest in Las Vegas.
Redmond passed away on March 12th, 2025 in Budapest, Hungary. I was notified just last week of Redmond’s death via an email from Chris Horlacher.
Redmond is survived by his children Finn and Piper Weissenberger, his siblings, Daniel Weissenberger and Janet Goodman, and his parents, Sheila Redmond and Ralph Calistro, Henry and Barbara Weissenberger.
Redmond also interviewed me a few times for his podcast.1 I liked him. Very smart, solid on IP, earnest advocate for liberty.
As Doug noted above, Redmond also established, with the help of Doug French, David Howden, and others, the Journal of Prices & Markets. Its archives at both Mises Canada and Mises Institute US are incomplete; we have archived the issues we could find here at PFS, at The Journal of Prices & Markets, Mises Canada (2013–2019).
The Journal of Prices & Markets was published by the Mises Institute Canada from 2013 to 2019. It was spearheaded by the late Redmond Weissenberger1 and edited by PFS member David Howden. PFS co-founder Doug French served as associate editor and, as President of the Mises Institute US, assisted Weissenberger when he was setting up Mises Canada and the journal.
As Mises Canada as well as Mises Institute US archives may be unreliable, given Weissenberger’s death, the cessation of publication of the journal, and the Mises Institute’s digital and institutional decline,2 we are hosting copies of the volumes we could find here. No, I do not know why there are two Summer 2014 issues from different volumes. [continue reading…]
Bruce Goldberg, “Ayn Rand’s ‘For the New Intellectual,’” New Individualist Rev., vol. 1, no. 3 (Nov. 1961): 17–24 [omnibus edition pp. 97–104] (html1; html2). Repixeled in part below.
From Hoppe:
Among some followers of Austrianism, the Kant interpretation of Ayn Rand (see, for instance, her Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology [1979]; or For the New Intellectual [1961]) enjoys great popularity. Her interpretation, replete with sweeping denunciatory pronouncements, however, is characterized by a complete absence of any interpretive documentation whatsoever. On Rand’s arrogant ignorance regarding Kant, see B. Goldberg, “Ayn Rand’s ‘For the New Intellectual,’” New Individualist Rev., vol. 1, no. 3 (1961).”1
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Property and Freedom Podcast, Episode 347.
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 4: The Theory of Banking (Hoppe). [continue reading…]
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…]
New piece by Marco de Wit, “Mises Institute’s 5 Purges: Omitting Jewish Bankers— Five Private Steps in the Statist Censorship Continuum,” Unz Review (July 31, 2026) (Portuguese translation). In my view, it is far too much of a strained effort to connect-the-dots and forge a sweeping, overarching theory to explain a sequence of events, like conspiracy theorists are wont to do, but YMMV. But as I have noted previously, I’ve long had an aversion to conspiracy theorizing, and to what I call conspiratoids or ‘toids.
First, such theories are usually not needed; and they are usually maintained by people who have a naive view of the state. For them, if we can just get rid of the bad guys (and often they are bankers, capitalists, etc.) and elect good guys, things return to normal. 1
De Wit accuses me of being a Zionist because I had a tweet mocking the claim that Israel “controls” the US. I didn’t know that being skeptical of grand, oversimplified and un-nuanced claims makes one a Zionist. Hunh. You learn something new every day. (The suggestion is silly; of course I’m not a Zionist.) But this type of assertion made with scant evidence is typical of ‘toids. This is what they do: they seize on the slightest evidence to make sweeping conclusions. One wonders why I published things such as Rothbard, The Zionist Conquest of American Opinion (unpublished), “Nozick v. Rothbard on Zionism and Israel (1979),” PFS Blog (July 30, 2026), Kinsella, Van De Haar and Besada on Hayek, Mises, Rothbard on Zionism, and Tyler Kubik, “Murray N. Rothbard Bibliography: 1940–1986,” Property and Freedom Journal (May 16, 2026) if I was a puppet of the Zionist overlords. [continue reading…]
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Property and Freedom Podcast, Episode 346.
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 3: Division Of Labor and Money (Hoppe). [continue reading…]
As noted here, the 2026 Twentieth Annual Meeting of the Property and Freedom Society will be held from Thursday, September 17, 2026 to Tuesday, September 22, 2026.
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